This Inspiring Teenager Wants to Save Lives With His Flying Robots

Mihir Garimella, 17, has been building robots since 10, and now, he' s developing software to enable the drone to operate autonomously and hopes it will be able to navigate environments such as a burning building.

World’s largest bookstore opens under a green roof in Tehran, Iran

The Book Garden aims to encourage Iranian children to be “active and creative through modern methods and equipment.

Dutch students 'grow' a biodegradable car made of beet sugar and flax

The only components not made of bio-based materials are the wheels and suspension system. Weighing just 684 pounds, the lightweight, eco-friendly vehicle can travel up to 50 miles per hour.

Danish school that optimizes learning through design

A company designed and recently completed the Herningsholm Vocational School, a Danish school that focuses on the creation of optimal learning and study environments.

Former concrete factory begins anew as an alternative high school with no curriculum

The Roskilde Festival Folk High School will differ in many ways from the typical high school. The alternative school has neither curriculum nor exams. Education will usually be focused on creative and humanistic topics, as well as on common life at school.

In the age of robots, our schools are teaching children to be redundant

In the future, if you want a job, you must be as unlike a machine as possible: creative, critical and socially skilled. So why are children being taught to behave like machines?

8 teenage inventions that could save the world

Sometimes the brightest ideas come in young packages. Teenagers from around the world demonstrate you don’t need a high school diploma to come up with a life-changing invention.

Learning From the Outside In With an ECO Education

Humans are a part of nature in every moment, in every place, and recognizing this puts a different lens on how you interact with the world’s ecological and social communities.

Overhauling How We Teach Our Kids in a World of Accelerating Change

Five issues with today’s elementary schools, five guiding principles for future education and exponential technologies for our classrooms.

Greek teachers learn ABCs of particle physics at CERN

CERN’s CMS Experiment has organized a new pilot training program, titled “Playing with Protons,” which allows teachers to get acquainted with the basics of particle physics and subsequently transfer their experiences and knowledge to their pupils.

The Future Of Education: We Live In A Social World

HundrED is a global, non-profit project aiming to bring together a vision of education for the next 100 years, collecting 100 innovations from Finland and a further 100 from around the world, along with commentary from global thought leaders.

10-year-old kid built a fully functional 3D printer out of Legos and K’nex

One of the latest innovations in the 3D printing world comes from a preteen who created a 3D printer using a 3D -rinting pen and a Lego Mindstorms EV3.

How German schools teach climate change, sustainable transport

Students in Berlin and Hamburg learn everything from urban gardening to safely using public transportation on their own

New 3D cartoon Planet Blue uses laughter and adventure to help kids save the planet

A new 3D cartoon, Planet Blue, will help parents strike that balance by combining laughter and heart-pounding adventures with a positive attitude about our ability to save the planet.