Cuyahoga Valley National Park Partners With Kent State and Cleveland Metroparks to Launch Science Learning App Educators, scientists, and technologists from the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Kent State University and Cleveland Metroparks have partnered to develop a new learning app that is now live and freely available on iTunes. The app, called ParkApps, features a number of different resources aimed at educating park visitors as they run, hike and bike through the parks.  The project was funded by the National Science Foundation’s Advancing Informal STEM Learning initiative....

At first glance, it looks like an ordinary black glove with a white palm. But if you take a closer look, you will see that it is equipped with sensors and a speaker. The glove is in the early stages of helping those who use American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate with those who do not. In his senior year at Kent State University's College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology, Joshua Ishihara came up with the idea after watching a video of a similar glove. “That got me thinking about my project,” Ishihara said. “I can use this idea for the ASL community and h...