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 […]

A Straw That Obtains Water from Soil and a Thermal Energy-Generating Water Purifier Are Among the Winning Entries in Smithsonian-Cricket Media’s 7th Annual Spark!Lab Dr. InBae Yoon Invent It Challenge

More than 490 Students, through individual and team entries, submitted innovative solutions to natural disaster preparation and relief issues; other winning entries from around the world included a catastrophe care kit for kids, a mobile application that helps people find shelter for their pets, and an emergency drone that brings supplies and food to people […]

Smithsonian and Cricket Media Launch the 7th Annual Spark!Lab Dr. InBae Yoon Invent It Challenge for Kids Worldwide

This year’s focus is on designing new and innovative ways to provide natural disaster preparation and relief WASHINGTON, DC—February 1,2018  This January marked the launch of the 7th annual Global Spark!Lab Dr. InBae Yoon Invent It Challenge – coinciding with the month’s Kid Inventors’ Day, which celebrates the important role children play in sparking innovation […]

How eMentoring Led My Fifth Graders to Read Regularly

Guest post by Luci Unferth, a fifth-grade teacher. Editor’s Note: January is National Mentoring Month! To celebrate, we’ve partnered with Cricket Media to share stories about the positive impact mentoring — especially eMentoring — can have on young people’s lives. If you told me a few months ago that my fifth-grade classroom’s most reluctant readers […]