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As the chairperson for the 2016 Women in Aviation Chicago’s Leading Edge Chapter The Sky’s the Limit Aviation Career Exploration Day, I am pleased to announce that this camp will take place at Lewis University on Saturday, September 24 from 8:30AM until 2:00PM. If there’s a girl in your life in middle or high school, we have a fun-filled, action-packed day planned to introduce her to aviation – or expand her growing interest. The girls will be in the presence of amazing role models ranging from airline pilots to aircraft mechanics to aviation industry executives. They’ll learn how to read a sectional chart, preflight a Cessna 172, learn the phonetic alphabet, fly a flight simulator, and lots more hands-on activities. A group lunch, with current Lewis University aviation students joining each table, will feature a dynamic speaker. Help encourage the next generation of women in aviation by participating in Women in Aviation Sky’s the Limit Aviation Ca...

New Resources for Educators and School Leaders Available Today Byline: Anthony Salcito, vice president, Microsoft Education To the community of 100 million players around the world, Minecraft represents many things – creativity, strategy, collaboration and survival, just to name a few. What many may not realize is that Minecraft has the power to transform learning on a global scale. By creating a virtual world and then advancing in it, students can learn digital citizenship, empathy, social skills and even improve their literacy – while getting real time feedback on their problem solving skills from the teacher. In fact, more than 7,000 teachers around the world are already using Minecraft in the classroom. Building on this natural use of Minecraft in the classroom, we announced today with Code.org , that we are bringing a Minecraft-inspired coding tutorial to students and educators, created especially for Hour of Code, an annual, global campaign held during Computer S...

Microsoft researchers help a race pilot go faster, Surface Pro 4 gets down to business and Windows 10 devices get a world-wide celebration Posted October 23, 2015 By Vanessa Ho on Microsoft Blogs From up in the air to eastern Africa, lots of cool Microsoft news happened this week. Dig in! Microsoft researchers were busy in Las Vegas helping Red Bull Air Race pilot Kirby Chambliss fly the fastest, most efficient way possible. Chambliss already races at a speed of more than 200 miles per hour, sometimes while upside down. But with control theory, robotics, machine learning and path planning, researchers are working to shave his time by a tenth to a hundredth of a second. “You get two-tenths of a second here and two-tenths of a second there, and now you’re winning,” Chambliss said. In awesome device news, the Surface Pro 4 has been adopted by businesses faster than any previous Surface. Since the newest Surface devices were unveiled two weeks ago, there has been ...