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Woz U is coming:
Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs, is launching a new online tech education platform he's calling Woz U, which is designed to promote technology jobs and the skills required to enter the industry. Over time, Wozniak hopes to expand the initiative to include as many as 30 physical locations around the world and courses on everything from software engineering and information technology to mobile app development and cybersecurity, among others. It's unclear whether courses will be offered for free, or whether Woz U plans on charging for any element of the online education platform. The website does not say.
Woz U also offers access to tech companies interested in using the tools and resources provided to recruit and train employees. The platform will be available to students K-12 through partnerships with school districts too. Down the line, Woz U wants to offer one-on-one instruction to students and, later on, to offer its own accelerator program for prospective startup founders. The overall goal is to increase interest in what Woz U calls STEAM careers, or science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics, with the addition of arts presumably a nod to Wozniak's role at Apple and fellow co-founder Steve Jobs' lifelong mission to blend technology with the humanities.
Also at TechCrunch, MacRumors, and Engadget.
(Score: 3, Informative) by maxwell demon on Sunday October 15 2017, @08:38AM
Yes, it's science: All others are about creation. Technology and engineering is about creation of useful things, arts is about creation of pleasant or thought-provoking things, and mathematics is about the creation of mathematical structures. Science, on the other hand, is about discovering the rules of the world as it is.
No wait, I think you actually meant technology. Science, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics are things you do. Technology is the result of doing something.
Oh no, wait, you mean Engineering. Science, Technology, Arts and Mathematics were already known in ancient times, while engineering is a relatively recent thing.
Or maybe you mean mathematics: It's the only of them which happens purely in your mind.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.