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Our latest edition of The Caliper has the Vernier LabQuest in the classroom! Read it online or join our mailing list to have The Caliper delivered to your doorstep twice a year.
Vernier Software & Technology continues to provide leadership on products and solutions for engineering educators. And now we are pleased to introduce a new web site with a sole focus on engineering education.
We’ve made it easy to find products for a specific type of engineering and have over 30 engineering projects to start off.
See our new engineering web site at http://engineering.vernier.com
Join us in this high-school chemistry classroom as students explore the new Vernier LabQuest. Together with their teacher, Hector Morales, students at the School of Science and Technology in Beaverton Oregon, perform an acid-base titration.
Our solar power production data is available on our web site! Check out our Solar Dashboard to see current weather conditions, live web camera view of our roof, and our solar energy production.
Best of all, you can download solar and weather data for Logger Pro for your own solar experiments and investigations!
Our latest edition of The Caliper showcases the Vernier LabQuest! Read it online or join our mailing list to have The Caliper delivered to your doorstep twice a year.
Vernier announces breakthrough data-collection technology for science education—the Vernier LabQuest.
LabQuest works as a stand-alone device or as a computer interface, providing the versatility to excel in the classroom or in the field.
The Vernier LabQuest includes built-in software for data collection, graphing, and analysis, and on-board applications such as a periodic table and stopwatch. Use the powerful and intuitive software from the vivid color touch-screen—all packed in a rugged and water-resistant exterior.
The freedom to inquire. The technology to excel. The Vernier LabQuest.
Our company’s sustainable operating and building maintenance practices have earned an Existing Building (EB) Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™.
Vernier Software & Technology is committed to providing an exceptional workplace for our employees, so when we began recent renovations on our current facility, the pursuit of a LEED-EB Gold certification was natural progression to quantify our accomplishments, learn how to further enhance our building’s operations and maintenance, and inspire others to adopt sustainable practices.
You can learn more about our certification at www.vernier.com/leed
EasyLink, our USB sensor interface for use with TI-84 Plus graphing calculators, received an Award of Excellence from Technology & Learning. The Award of Excellence recognizes products that help educators teach with technology. EasyLink was given a rigorous test-drive by qualified educators. Evaluation criteria include quality and effectiveness, ease of use, and suitability for use in an educational environment.
We are proud and excited to receive Oregon Business Magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon Award for the eighth consecutive year. We rank #20 on the list, which is a great compliment to our founders and employees.
We are pleased to announce the 2007 Vernier/NSTA Technology Award Winners. The winners are awarded for their innovative use of data-collection technology using a computer, graphing calculator, or other handheld in the science classroom.
Read the synopsis of the winners’ submissions.
Elementary
Wendy Smith
3rd Grade Teacher
Klem Road South Elementary School
Webster, NY
Middle School
Michael Breslow
7th Grade Science Teacher, NBCT
Belhaven Middle School
Linwood, NJ
Thomas Eddy
Science Teacher
Green Lake School District
Green Lake, WI
High School
Timothy Couillard
Teacher
James River High School
Midlothian, VA
Michael Liebl
Physics/Chemistry/Mathematics Instructor
Mount Michael Benedictine School
Elkhorn, NE
Brent Osborn
Science Teacher
North Central High School
Spokane, WA
College
James “Tiger” Gordon
Professor of Chemistry
Central Methodist University
Fayette, MO
Our 2007 catalog is now in the mail! We are very happy to announce that there are no price increases in the catalog. Check out these featured items that are new for 2007:
- Biotechnology Products
- BlueView™ Transilluminator
- Blue Digital Bioimaging System
- E-Gel® Pre-Cast Agaraose Electrophoresis System
- SYBR Safe™ non-toxic DNA stain
- Infrared Thermometer
- SensorDAQ packages for Engineering Education
If you are already on our mailing list, you will receive a copy soon. If not, sign up on our mailing list or download the catalog PDF.
Vernier Software & Technology was fortunate enough to have our products featured on television programming presented by Discovery Communications, Inc.. Discovery’s many cable networks, which include The Learning Channel, The Discovery Channel, and The Science Channel, produce science programming that is entertaining, as well as informative. Continue reading to watch clips from both episodes!
Continue reading about Vernier on TV…
“An Inconvenient Truth” DVDs are available on a first come, first serve basis to teachers across the country interested in using the film about Global warming as a teaching tool in classrooms.
A free downloadable curriculum guide to accompany “An Inconvenient Truth” is available for download at Participate.net courtesy of the film’s financier, Participant Productions.
Our special 25th anniversary edition of The Caliper debuts Vernier Biotechnology, Vernier SensorDAQ, and the Vernier Infrared Thermometer! Read it online or join our mailing list to have The Caliper delivered to you twice a year.
Vernier Software & Technology is excited to be a part of a collaboration with LEGO Education, National Instruments, Tufts University, and Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Academy.
We have been working with the LEGO NXT and Vernier sensors for several months and have a few sample movies to show the possibilities of this collaboration.
This summer’s AAPT meeting marked two celebrations—the 75th anniversary for AAPT and our 25th anniversary. As part of the AAPT celebration, Dave spoke about the changes that he has seen in data-collection technology over the past 25 years.
Continue reading about 25th Anniversary Celebration at AAPT…
Read about the new Vernier Wireless Dynamics Sensor System, Vernier Spectrometer, and Biology ProScope Kit in the Spring 2006 edition of The Caliper! Read it online or join our mailing list to have The Caliper delivered to your doorstep twice a year.
We’ve created a new tool on our web site to help you choose the best combination of data-collection technology for your school. Based on your criteria, our online purchasing guide helps you create a personalized recommendation of curriculum, hardware, software, and accessories to fit your needs. Once your list is complete, you can print it and take it to your department chair, request a formal quote, or make a purchase directly from our web site.
Texas Instruments and Vernier are pleased to announce localized versions of EasyData! The EasyData application for the TI-84 Plus family of calculators and TI-83 Plus calculators brings a new level of simplicity to calculator-based data collection. Now, you can collect data directly on your TI calculator in 11 different languages.
EasyData version 2 is available in the following languages:
- Spanish
- German
- French
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Swedish
- Dutch
- Norwegian
- Danish
- Finnish
Learn more or download EasyData at www.vernier.com/easy/easydata.html
We are pleased to announce the 2006 Vernier/NSTA Technology Award Winners. The winners are awarded for their innovative use of data-collection technology using a computer, graphing calculator, or other handheld in the science classroom.
Read the synopsis of the winners’ submissions.
Elementary
Deborah Wickerham
Chamberlin Hill Intermediate
Findlay, OH
Middle School
Jamie Mabry
New London Choice Middle School
New London, NC
High School
Heidi Anderson
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School
Lexington, KY
David Jones
Big Sky High School
Missoula, MT
Stephen Potashnik
Chesapeake Bay Governor’s School
Tappahannock, VA
College
Marina Milner-Bolton
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
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