{"id":10223,"date":"2026-02-17T20:53:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/?p=10223"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:53:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:23:44","slug":"mad-news-for-february-year-in-review-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/mad-news-for-february-year-in-review-video\/","title":{"rendered":"MAD-news for February: Year in Review video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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You know we love our year in review videos and this year’s video packs a punch! It gives us a moment to reflect on what we did, who we impacted, and how we can make more magic this year. Check it out here<\/a>. You never know, you might even spot yourself or your students!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thank you for being a part of our journey! We are excited about where we are heading this year and can’t wait to share some news with you soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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February is a big month for future-ready learning. It is Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month, and it is also Engineers Week (Feb 22 to 28). This year\u2019s Engineers Week theme is Transform Your Future<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We love this theme at MAD-learn because it fits naturally with how students learn through design thinking. The engineering process and design thinking both center on understanding a real need, creating a solution, testing it, and improving it. That is the kind of learning that connects directly to CTE pathways and real careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are looking for easy ways to celebrate CTE Month, ACTE<\/a> has shareable resources and a toolkit you can use with your school or program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Want a simple way to bring Transform Your Future to life? Try an app challenge: ask students to build an app that improves something they care about, like a school routine, a community need, wellness, local events, or a cause they want to support. The point is to build, learn, refine, and see how small changes can create real impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Engineers Week resources and the official theme, you can reference DiscoverE here: https:\/\/discovere.org\/programs\/engineers-week\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black History Month: Transform Your Future<\/strong>
Black History Month is also an opportunity to look at leaders who changed the future through courage, skill, and persistence. One student built an app, DreamDoctors: Dickens Way<\/a>, featuring Dr. Helen Dickens and her impact on women\u2019s healthcare. Projects like this are a powerful way to bring the Engineers Week theme, Transform Your Future, into the classroom through app development that teaches, inspires, and informs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This month we are featuring Anne Benton, a Computer Science teacher at Creekland Middle School, in Cherokee County School District who brought MAD-learn into a powerful cross-curricular collaboration. Partnering with Social Studies teachers, her students created apps focused on water scarcity, directly connecting to a 7th grade Georgia Social Studies standard. As a first-time MAD-learn user, she shared that the project went really well and that she loved how app creation gives students a real-world reason to care about what they are learning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also shared that she is already thinking ahead about using MAD-learn to teach HTML with 8th grade, because while students can build websites in many ways, apps tend to spark a different kind of excitement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the kind of learning we love to see; teachers teaming up across subjects so students can use technical skills to explore meaningful topics, meet standards, and create something that feels real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… checking out all the CTE fun and partnerships that we love so much.<\/p>\n\n\n

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