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A student group at Denham Springs High School won the national Samsung Solve for Tomorrow STEM competition with a project involving sensors to monitor Lake Maurepas and relay data to a public app.

Seattle used funds from a technology levy to purchase a new digital curriculum, Illustrative Mathematics, which focuses on conceptual understanding rather than facts and memorization.

The lack of a federal budget has put several STEM programs on ice, reducing the number of hands-on experiences with technology available to students from low-income schools.

Benetech, a nonprofit focused on equity in education, will launch an AI-powered system to make STEM learning materials accessible and interactive for students who are neurodivergent or visually impaired.

North Carolina girls in grades nine through 12 can apply for a summer mentorship with women state government leaders who work in STEM-based positions in nine departments.

The University of Wisconsin-River Falls, UW-Eau Claire and UW-Stout will use a National Science Foundation grant to support computer science research and curriculum development by high school teachers.

For America to remain an AI leader, Congress must invest in teacher training, AI literacy lessons and STEM improvements for K-12 schools nationwide, according to a report issued this week by the House AI Task Force.

The University at Albany will offer $5,000 scholarships to exceptional high school and transfer students to boost enrollment in its College of Nanotechnology, Science and Engineering.

After years of delays and $74.1 million in renovations, a new high school in Syracuse will offer concentrations including media technology, robotics automation, data analytics and semiconductor microchip technology.

While the work to introduce computer science concepts early in education is growing, accessible design should be a core component of the subject as students learn about web and mobile app development.

Census data shows that the number of city residents 25 and older with a bachelor's degree in science and engineering fields nearly doubled from 106,000 in 2010 to 207,000 in 2023.

Educators broadly agree on the necessity of teaching students to use artificial intelligence, which some do by exploring the technology's foundations in computer science and implications in media literacy.

A $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant will help train a cohort of 60 Mississippi State University students to develop artificial intelligence systems capable of analyzing digital images.

With grant funding to implement Project Lead the Way curricula, Northridge High School in Colorado started an aerospace engineering course to expose students to another career option in a growing engineering field.

A Thursday afternoon event at a public university in Oklahoma invited female students to visit stations around campus featuring various STEM subjects, from cybersecurity to nursing.

Academic publisher Wiley has partnered with ed-tech company Alchemie to reduce barriers for blind and low-vision students to the field of chemistry, which relies heavily on visual representations of matter.

The University of California, Santa Cruz, will use a National Science Foundation grant to redesign support and mentoring programs to better serve students from marginalized backgrounds.

A visit to the Clay Center for Arts and Sciences of West Virginia let elementary students from the Upper Kanawha Valley learn about everything from surface tension to exothermal reactions. Their responses, educators and industry officials said, prove the value of STEM education.