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Over the last year, we’ve experimented with lots of tools to support our MOUSE Squads–we used a blog for announcements, mailing list software, and surveymonkey for surveys. […]

Greetings all 8th and 9th graders! For those of you who are new, welcome to the program and we hope you have a really great year. For those coming back to us, thanks for taking the time and interest to return to Mouse Squad and congratulations for coming this far!
We have […]

MOUSECORPS, the program that takes students far beyond the limits of their schools walls, is back!  And it wouldn’t be a MOUSE program–if there weren’t tantalizing new additions.
Each High School student that joins the MOUSECORPS program receives

A paid summer internship with one of our corporate partners.
Free admission to the new MOUSECORPS Field Trip.
Video Game Fest.

Interested?  […]

Ever wanted to know if there are other MOUSE Squads near your school? Or how many MOUSE Squads there are in New York, or California, or anywhere else?
Thanks to the hard work of our Technology Intern, Jonathan, you can now find all of the schools with operating MOUSE Squads using the Google Maps interface. […]

I know I missed my due date August 4th, but i’ve been busy with my vacation and lost track of time and what not. Anyway, I’m here now. My name is Danny Parache by the way, and I was given the great opportunity of receiving a summer internship at Davis Polk & Wardell (DPW.com). This […]

I’ve really enjoyed my time here at Citigroup so far. Everyone has been very nice to me so far and I am sure that they will continue to do so. For the past few days I’ve been helping reorganize the storage closets in order to see what type of computer equipment we have.
There is talk […]

In January, MOUSE offered MOUSE Squad participants the opportunity to participate in a pilot of Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC³), free-of-charge. IC³ is designed to validate an individual’s basic computer skills and Internet knowledge to promote success in school, work, and life. Each scholarship included unlimited access to a comprehensive online practice tutorial called […]

What’s NECC? The National Education Computing Conference. It’s organized by the International Society for Technology in Education– a nonprofit membership association, that strives to improve teaching, learning, and school leadership by advancing the effective use of technology in PK-12 and teacher education. This year, MOUSECORPS students Ryan Mason and Syed […]

MOUSE is pleased to announce the winner of the MOUSE Squad Eighth Grade Survey Raffle, who will receive an iPod Shuffle! The winner is Mercedes from Campbell Middle School in California.
Thanks again to everyone who completed the MOUSE Squad Eighth Grade Survey! Your participation is important to us. MOUSE routinely gathers information about its […]

“Shipwrecked at sea, Darienne Clay, daughter of a brilliant scientist at the University of Hawaii’s new biotech program, washes up on the shore of an abandoned island after the university’s summer school research vessel she was on meets with disaster. While searching the island for means of survival and escape, she stumbles upon the reason […]