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Breaking: Microsoft just made its biggest education investment in history

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Beginning this Saturday, May 6, Microsoft Store locations across the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, and Australia will host STEM Saturdays [1] throughout May in all full-line locations in addition to the range of free programs year-round that empower students and educators. STEM Saturdays brings pop-up classrooms to Microsoft Store and offers hands-on experiences like building a sensor that measures the flexion and extension of a finger to learn about the anatomy of a human hand.

Microsoft also introduced new offerings [2] for education, representing its biggest investment ever in education, designed to empower the students of today to create the world of tomorrow.

New offerings include:

For more details from today’s announcement, read this blog post [4] from Terry Myerson, EVP of the Windows & Devices Group.

See also the BBC announcement here [5].

Material from a press release was used in this report.