Education Innovation Badgerland

Remake Learning Days - Badgerland: where the venue might be virtual, but the learning is REAL!

Because even though our social practices may have changed, the need for learning has not!

Remake Learning Days: Badgerland was intended to be a week-long, hands-on celebration at schools, museums, and libraries to celebrate the arts and educational activities for youth, but concerns about COVID-19 threatened its future.

Undaunted, more than two dozen nonprofit organizations band...

Creating local community career ecosystems to support Real World Learning

Students earn micro-credentials and digital badges as they prepare for career and job shadowing

The community organization Hendricks CareerTek works with local employers, like Beloit Health Systems, area school districts, and LRNG:Badgerland to create career prep pipelines through specialized digital badging. 

Educators and employers work together to identify resources and create "pla...

“Click” Youth Media Initiative Hones Digital Media Literacy Skills

Students find their "voice" through PBS Wisconsin’s “Click” Youth Media initiative 

Learn - Create – Play - Connect!

PBS Wisconsin Education’s “Click” Youth Media initiative hones student and educator digital media skills through a multi-pronged approach that provides:

Media production professional development for educators who take those skills into their classroom...

Maydm is inspiring innovators, breaking barriers and accelerating opportunities through STEM

Where STEM futures are "made by them"

Maydm, a Madison-based nonprofit, recently wrapped up its summer programming for girls and students of color. At Maydm, students not only learn the skills to become the next great STEM innovator, but also experience the world of technology in a big way.

In each program, students were paired...