Nepris STEM Solution Wins AAP REVERE Awards for Innovative Education Resources in K-12
June 8, 2015 | By Business Wire News
DALLAS & LOS ANGELES
Nepris–which connects STEM professionals with teachers and their students through cloud-based interactions–is a winner of a 2015 REVERE Award from the Association of American Publishers (AAP). The REVERE Awards are the longest-running and one of the most respected awards in education for recognizing exemplary learning products. Nepris is a cloud-based social platform connecting STEM (and STEaM to add the Arts to science, technology, engineering and math) professionals with teachers and their students. Click to Tweet.
Nepris won in the Innovation category for Supplemental Resources. Entrants in the REVERE Awards are subject to a rigorous evaluation process, which places emphasis on both professional educator analysis and feedback from product developers in the learning resource community. For nearly 50 years, the REVERE Awards have recognized content, basal curricula, supplementary resources and other tools that help teachers teach and learners learn.
“Winning the REVERE Awards is a true honor for Nepris because REVERE Awards are the most selective and well-respected awards in our industry,” said Sabari Raja, CEO and founder of Nepris. “Winning the REVERE Awards is one more validation of how Nepris brings a new dimension to teaching in making STEM experts around the globe accessible and involved in classrooms without being limited by distance or proximity.”
With Nepris, teachers access and engage a worldwide marketplace of industry professionals who interact with their students, showing them how they apply classroom learning to real life, or they will mentor students on projects or evaluate student work. The goal is to excite students about careers in science, engineering, technology, the Arts and math.
By providing an easy-to-access online social community of industry experts and teachers, Nepris simplifies the end-to-end process of matching professionals’ skills to teachers’ needs, enabling communication and collaboration, hosting the virtual sessions and tracking all data for every stakeholder. Nepris allows professionals, companies, universities and non-profits to effectively reach out and interact with teachers and their students wherever they are.
See archived sessions or enroll at Nepris.com. Companies can sponsor teachers, schools or districts. Organizations can create white-label versions to manage their own business and education community. Individual teachers from elementary, middle or high school can sign up for a basic free version providing full access anytime.
About Nepris
Dallas-based Nepris brings STEM to life (and STEAM, which adds the Arts to science, technology, engineering and mathematics) by connecting professionals with teachers and classrooms who need speakers, project mentors or evaluators for interactive, cloud-based sessions. Nepris makes this a turn-key process: identifying and registering professionals and teachers, matching professionals’ skills to the teachers’ needs, advising on best practices for classroom interaction, hosting the interactive sessions and tracking all the data in a social platform. See Nepris in action at Nepris.com/webinar or sign-up as a teacher or STEM professional at Nepris.com.
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