Best Magazines for an 8-Year-Old

If you’re the parent of an 8-year-old child, you know that eight is an amazing—and potentially exhausting—year in a child’s life! Many kids experience a huge growth spurt, both physically and intellectually, around third grade. They’re reading independently, trying more things for themselves, and most importantly, they start developing a more complex sense of identity. Is your child a budding scientist or an aspiring poet or planning a campaign for the 2052 presidential election? Feed their voracious minds with the perfect magazine to fit their passions.

TryEngineering Together Named SIIA Education Technology 2019 CODiE Award Finalist for Best Instructional Solution

TryEngineering Together earns prestigious industry recognition MCLEAN, VA, USA, May 16, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ — Cricket Media today announced that TryEngineering Together was named a 2019 SIIA CODiE Award finalist for the Best Instructional Solution. Award finalists represent applications, products, and services from developers of educational software, digital content, online learning services, and related technologies across […]

Northrop Grumman Foundation Announces Innovative STEM eMentoring Program

TryEngineering Together will connect 170 middle school students to Northrop Grumman employee volunteers. MCLEAN, VA, UNITED STATES, April 9, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ — McLean, Virginia, April 9, 2019 – The Northrop Grumman Foundation, in partnership with Cricket Media and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), is expanding its commitment to providing students with science, technology, […]

Smithsonian and Cricket Media Launch the 8th Annual Spark!Lab Dr. InBae Yoon Invent It Challenge for Kids Worldwide

Young inventors are invited to use their creativity to create a new tool or technology to enhance the daily lives and activities of older adults. WASHINGTON, DC, USA, January 17, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ — Smithsonian and Cricket Media Launch the 8th Annual Spark!Lab Dr. InBae Yoon Invent It Challenge for Kids Worldwide WASHINGTON, DC – Today […]

Cricket Magazine Titles Available on Apple News+

Content from all nine award-winning children’s titles to be included among 300 premium digital magazines and newspapers on Apple News+ MCLEAN, VA, UNITED STATES, March 29, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ — Cricket Media is pleased to announce that content from all nine award-winning children’s titles will be included among the 300 premium digital magazines and newspapers which […]

Aerospace Shapes the Future of Students through Online Mentoring

TryEngineering Together’s eMentoring program provides a platform for students and Aerospace volunteers to communicate on STEM topics. EL SEGUNDO, CA, USA , February 20, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ — Demonstrating an ongoing commitment to innovation in STEM education, employees of The Aerospace Corporation (Aerospace) will provide online mentoring to fifth grade students from Kujawa Elementary School, a […]

Cricket Media® Writer Receives 2018 AAAS Kavli Gold Award

CHICAGO, Nov. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — MUSE contributor JEANNE MILLER has won the 2018 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award in the category of Children’s Science News. Her winning article, “Fighting to the End,” appeared in the October 2017 issue of MUSE Magazine, a publication of Cricket Media®. The article described the years-long effort to […]

8 Award-Winning Inventions by Kids

One of the most exciting events that the Cricket Media team participates in each year is the Spark!Lab Dr. InBae Yoon Invent It Challenge. Spring is invention season at our DC office. Some of us are busy getting in touch with teachers to encourage their students to enter, some spend hours judging the submissions by […]

6 Tips for Starting Your Own Father-Daughter Book Club

My daughter and I are reading the same book. It happened totally by accident.  She left a book lying on the kitchen counter. I spilled grape juice on it. While I was cleaning it up, I happened to read a few sentences of the book and suddenly I was hooked. I must have stood at […]

Aerospace Shapes the Future of Students through Online Mentoring

NEWS RELEASE The Aerospace Corporation 2310 E. El Segundo Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90245-4691 (310) 336-5000 www.aerospace.org Aerospace Shapes the Future of Students through Online Mentoring EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Feb. 20, 2019 – Demonstrating an ongoing commitment to innovation in STEM education, employees of The Aerospace Corporation (Aerospace) will provide online mentoring to fifth grade […]