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Sep 24, 2019

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Digital Healthcare is Coming of Age

Digital healthcare, a discipline with enormous potential to dramatically improve healthcare as we know it, is no longer an experiment or a novelty. It is a rapidly growing industry. Over the next ten years, digital healthcare solutions will change the way people take care of themselves, ultimately changing the ways they live and work.

Sep 23, 2019

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Partnership Highlight: Iris Oregon & Creative Storytelling and Movie Making

Meet filmmakers Bill Synder and Shane Phillips of Iris Oregon, a nonprofit dedicated to offering a creative safe space for self-expression and teaching youth the creative process and communication skills. They are teaching the brand new class Creative Storytelling and Movie Making at Saturday Academy Beaverton in our Winter/Spring term!

Sep 20, 2019

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Instructor Highlight: Roger Eiss & Game Theory

Meet Roger Eiss, Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry and former Saturday Academy Board member. Roger will share his expertise on the principles of game theory!

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Aug 23, 2019

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College Entrance Exams: What You Need to Know About the SAT and ACT

We offer this overview as well as a comparison chart to help you decide which test to take and when, and how Saturday Academy’s in-person group test prep classes taught by experienced math and language arts instructors can help you student maximize their scores. Our students have shared post-class score increases of 150 points or more on the SAT.

Jun 20, 2019

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Drone Academy: Become a Pilot

Next month, Saturday Academy will provide students with the opportunity to follow their curiosity to the start of a new career in a high-tech industry of the future: uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), also known as drones. During our week-long camp, offered July 15-19 at Portland State University, students will have the opportunity to qualify as commercial drone pilots.