Jerome Oberlton, the city school system’s chief information officer, has resigned his post, according to the Baltimore Sun. From the Sun: Oberlton first stirred controversy in April of last year when a Baltimore Sun investigation revealed that of $500,000 worth of renovations that took place in city school headquarters in 2011, $250,000 went largely to outfit Oberlton’s [...]

The robots are the hook. On Saturday dozens of students on robotics teams from city schools gathered at Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women downtown for the VEXmas Classic. Teams battled each other in “Sack Attack,” guiding motorized, wheeled robots around square fields while using clawed arms to scoop up bean bags and deposit them in troughs and [...]

Soon students from Digital Harbor High School will be designing websites for small businesses, nonprofits and artists in Baltimore city. And as they construct websites—and complete the requisite coding coursework in HMTL, CSS and PHP, for instance—they’ll earn scholarship money to be used toward paying for their college educations. It’s an initiative called STEM Engine, [...]