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• With Google’s new Expeditions app, teachers can take their whole class on a VR field trip
• Kansas Supreme Court accepts latest school funding changes
• Football: Qatar using 3D printers to find perfect pitch

With Google’s new Expeditions app, teachers can take their whole class on a VR field trip Posted: 28 Jun 2016 04:55 PM PDT There are already more than 200 different Expeditions which can be taken -- with each one curated with integrated descriptions, talking points, and questions. Currently, trips include visits to historical landmarks, diving underwater with sharks, and even journeys into outer space

Kansas Supreme Court accepts latest school funding changes Posted: 28 Jun 2016 04:14 PM PDT TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court signed off Tuesday on a new state law increasing aid to poor school districts, formally ending a threat that the state's public schools could be shut down.

Football: Qatar using 3D printers to find perfect pitch Posted: 27 Jun 2016 01:04 PM PDT Following concerns over poor quality pitches at Euro 2016, Qatar has employed a high-tech solution to avoid similar criticisms of its World Cup in 2022 -- 3D printers and wind tunnels. Scientists at Qatar University, the country's largest higher education establishment, have created 3D-printed models of some of the potential eight stadiums that will be used in 2022, to try and ensure there are no such similar surface problems in six years' time. "We are aware of what is happening in Europe," lead scientist of the research, Saud Ghani said.

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