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Five community organizations from the greater Richmond area are collaborating on a once in a lifetime opportunity to send 15 local girls to Brazil. The Essence of a Goddess study abroad program will explore the rich cultural traditions of Afro-Brazilian drumming, dance, history, art, and culture. Girls For A Change/Camp Diva, Drums No Guns, Culture4MyKids, Ezibu Muntu, and the Richmond Youth Peace Project will provide some of the funding for the girls to participate in this amazing cultural experience. Each of the girls will raise a portion of the cost for their trip.

National High School, an academic institution devoted to providing students with high-quality, challenging education through innovative teaching methods, announced that it is working toward introducing a brand new online education platform.

DimensionU, Inc, in collaboration with the University of Hawaii–West Oahu, Holomua GEAR UP on the Leeward Coast, and 21st Century Community Learning Center, congratulates the winners and all participants in the 2015 Hawai'i Math Games, held Friday, April 10, 2015, at the University of Hawaii – West Oahu campus. Students in grades 4-10, representing eleven schools from the Nanakuli-Waianae, Pearl City-Waipahu, and Aiea-Moanalua-Radford Complex Areas, participated in the 2nd annual event, which utilized DimensionU's interactive, multi-player video game software that combines the challenge of video gaming and rigor of academic skills into an exciting and engaging event. Separate competitions were conducted for elementary and secondary schools, which included a team-based and individual tournament at each level. Special thanks go to Papa John's Pizza for providing lunch to all students, educators, parents, volunteers and school administrators.

EngleskiJezik.net, a website focused on helping Serbs learn English, has recently launched itself. The site provides ample tutorials, informative articles and useful advice which will help Serbs learn English within days.

ATD-AMERICAN is pleased to announce the publication of their 2015 Education Catalog with new features for schools using a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) curriculum.

America's leading dentistry SEO experts have today announced plans to launch a scholarship program. Their goal is to help future health professionals pay for their education. The scholarship will award one aspiring dental student $500 to go towards books or tuition for the 2015 fall semester. If you're studying to become a dentist at the current time, DDSRank wants to hear from you. With very few companies offering scholarships exclusively for dental students, this award is a great opportunity.

As an educational community, Monarch Montessori focuses on the processes and philosophies set forth by Dr. Maria Montessori in 1897. With multi-age grouping programs that allow children to maintain the pace of their learning, the school is pleased to announce their enrichment programs are available to enrolled families and children. In addition to their learning development programs that foster a close relationship with head teachers, these enrichment programs assist children in stimulating their knowledge of various skills.

The formation of the various geographical features on planet earth has an extremely exciting history associated with it. Gradual changes in the environment and tectonic activity create landforms like lakes, mountains, rivers, reefs, coasts, deserts and continents, etc. World landforms, an informative online portal, provides information about the various continents. There are overall seven continents: Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, North America, South America and Europe. The two main characteristics of a continent are a) they are the largest land bodies and b) one of the seven. Though recognized as seven different continents, scientists believe that there are only six continents as Asia and Europe are connected, although separated by mountains.

When In Need Foundation invites supporters and partners to attend their "Soles for Education" inaugural Fundraiser and Luncheon in New York City. The mission of the event is to make available new shoes to students at Samuel Njemaze Primary School, Owerri, Nigeria, on Saturday, May 16th at 6pm. Donations are much appreciated and welcome. Tickets can be purchased at www.solesforeducation.eventbrite.com. For more information about the fundraiser by When in Need Foundation, please visit http://www.winfound.org/soles-for-education/ for more details.

IBMC College in Fort Collins, Greeley, Longmont, CO, and Cheyenne, WY will be hosting College Planning Nights in April.

Every parent wants to see their child become the best. At Bright Future Learning Center, they believe strongly in this and so they coordinate their services to accommodate every child's need.

Creative and Clever, a website for inspiring people of all ages, will debut the ribbon cutting of the new Johnson Elementary School Green House. Local botanist Scott Tucker has raised the funds for the new structure and its equipment.

DimensionU, Inc., in collaboration with the University of Hawaii –West Oahu, Holomua GEAR UP on the Leeward Coast, and 21st Century Community Learning Center, is pleased to announce the 2nd Annual Hawai'i Math Games, which will take place on April 10, 2015. This year's event has doubled in size with 13 elementary and secondary schools participating from three Complex Areas on Oahu. Schools from the Nanakuli-Waianae, Pearl City-Waipahu, and Aiea-Moanalua-Radford Complex Areas will send teams of students to compete in this one-of-a-kind, academic video game event being held at University of Hawaii – West Oahu. Students in grades 4-10 will compete in teams using DimensionU's interactive, multi-player video game software that combines the challenge of academic skills and video gaming into an exciting and engaging event. DimensionU CEO Steven Hoy will attend, along with many Hawaii education administrators and educators in support of students and innovative digital learning. Learn more about DimensionU at www.dimensionu.com.

More than 300 high school students from across the Southland will compete in 11th annual Project ECHO High School Entrepreneur's Business Plan Competition on Sunday, April 12, 2015. This event follows the Semi-Finals event and is intended to provide Southern California high school students the opportunity to pitch their new business ventures to prominent members of the local business community who serve as volunteer venture capitalist judges. Winning teams are awarded cash start-up funds.

Some parents might find themselves at a loss for how to accommodate their child's or children's schedules when so many extracurricular activities like sports or plays may be up to an hour's drive away. Parents looking for piano lessons in the Greater Baltimore metropolitan area, however, no longer have to worry about long drives. Playtime Piano offers home piano instruction, and students can register online for even more convenience.

With an aim to keep distance education on par with on-campus studies, MIT School of Distance Education, is now offering post-graduate diploma course in risk and insurance management. With the advent of globalisation, the insurance sector in India is witnessing an unprecedented growth. So, managers who can assess the risk and insurance management portfolio for the optimum benefit of the company are in demand. Currently, most of the big companies like TATA, Reliance, ICICI, HDFC, Birla, and much more have joined hands with renowned insurance companies of the world to tap the growth of the insurance sector. So, after getting a post graduate degree in risk and insurance management from MITSDE students can be sure about their career prospect.

Change and Be Changed is a charity consisting of educators and community workers who want to bridge the space between North America and Malawi, also known as the "Warm Heart of Africa."  Despite its friendly name, Northern Malawi is among the poorest of regions in Central Africa, and Drs. Thomas and Elisabeth Hangartner, who have been volunteering in the area since 2006, see a strong need for funds to pay for high school and college scholarships for the children here.  Now, the Hangartners, along with other concerned friends, have created Change and Be Changed, an Ohio-registered charity whose 510(c)(3) status is pending, to raise money for these scholarships and have launched an IndieGoGo campaign for this purpose.

The highly anticipated arrival of a dynamic STEAM Academy for pre-kindergarten through fifth grade has finally arrived! Elite Scholars STEAM Academy is expanding its learning environment by adding highly functional learning labs that will foster their students' hands on learning experiences in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics.

NJ MED, a NGO partner of the United Nation's Economic and Social Affairs Department, World Top 20 Education Poll's first-quarter report, was released today. The rankings are a pre-poll prediction of the 20 nations that will be ranked as the best education systems at the end of the year.

According to recent research published by the Association of Graduate Recruiters and High Fliers Research, graduate job positions are predicted to rise by as much 11.9% in 2015, which is more than 2013 and 2014 combined. GSR2R, a successful recruitment-to-recruitment company who help graduates gain employment in the recruitment consultant industry across a range of sectors, have commented.

Martial arts are a combat skill that has been there from centuries. At first it was limited only in the Chinese region but with time this art of defence has become common all over the world. There are various schools all over the world teaching this form of combat skills to huge numbers of students. One of the schools that have a good presence all over the world is Wudang Kung Fu of China.

Kids are known to be naturally inquisitive. They enjoy new experiences and discovering things unknown to them. Judy Belletti, the co-founder of 3D Learning Group, firmly believes that it is much easier to engage children with visual learning rather than asking children to memorize vocabulary from a list. This concept has led Judy and her team to create the company's first endeavor, Bright World eBooks. The eBooks will be a complete 3D reading experience where children will be given the opportunity to access learning tools that are as engaging and entertaining as a video game or movie.

DimensionU is pleased to announce and congratulate the winning teams from the 5th Annual DIMENSIONU / SPAWAR Mathematics Video Game Competition held Friday, March 13 in Charleston, South Carolina. Eight school teams from the Charleston area came together to represent their respective schools from the Tri-County area. The annual tournament, hosted at SPAWAR Systems Atlantic facility on the U.S. Naval base in North Charleston, is part of SPAWAR's STEM Outreach efforts with area schools and school districts. The competition utilized the DimensionU Games platform, which integrates multiplayer, first-person action-adventure gaming with mathematics curriculum. Access to the DimensionU program is available to both schools and individual consumers.

Jeffrey Finder, founder of Faculty Row Corp., announced that a significant number of public and private entities are successfully utilizing the newly launched Experts on Demand feature to locate super professors on the organization's global network. Companies, agencies and non-profit organizations in all fields of endeavor now have virtually instant access to more than 100,000 scholars in multiple disciplines from around the world.

As the government pledges 500 more free schools for the UK by 2020, Burton upon Trent and Tamworth School uniform and schoolwear specialist, Clothing4 Schools, pledges to provide all items of school clothing in-line with school branding, quality and styling guidelines.