STEM

A handful of English classes developed at the University of Colorado Boulder in recent years combine literary studies with data science, challenging students to learn how to code and then analyze literature using data.

The University of Missouri will open a new lab in 2024 to familiarize students with technologies involved in smart manufacturing, such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cloud computing, blockchain and robotics.

A teacher in Connecticut challenged students to design and code video games and present them at a tech fair-style expo, which not only generated interest in computer science but prompted thinking about inclusive design.

Pennsylvania's new state budget includes more than $134 million combined in technical-education subsidies and equipment grants, given swelling interest in career and technical education programs in recent years.

The Illinois Graduate and Retain Our Workforce (iGROW) Tech Act will offer grants to college students majoring in computer science, information technology or related fields, covering up to the full cost of tuition.

As part of a new $11 million program in Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell researchers want to make AIs fluent with calculus so they can derive the underlying differential equations that govern physical systems.

The two-week summer program was designed to give students from various backgrounds the opportunity to collaborate on medical device prototype creation with the guidance of established innovators in the mechanical engineering industry.

To fill in-demand positions for data-science professionals, business leaders in Salt Lake City's burgeoning tech industry are working with the state board of education to integrate more data science into K-12 curricula.

Derrick Day, a 17-year-old at Westminster High School who is blind, created an app called LDOT (long-distance object tracker) that uses artificial intelligence to verbally identify objects that appear in a phone's camera.

Lorain County Community College in Ohio hosted the "Dream It! Design It! Make It! Manufacture It!" camp, also known as D2M2, to help students explore advanced manufacturing and career pathways through technology.

Addressing a recent conference for the STEM Leadership Alliance, Norwalk Public Schools Superintendent Alexandra Estrella emphasized the need to prepare students for a world in which AI will be part of daily life.

Toyota USA Foundation has earmarked up to $5.7 million in grants, and will work with local and national nonprofits, to close educational gaps by funding equipment, staffing, job shadowing and other STEM support programs.

An annual series of STEM camps for middle and high school students in Colorado challenged them to embed artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies into a 1/18th scale race car.

With funding from the National Telecommunication and Information Administration, a public historically Black university in North Carolina will offer 24 weeks of free coding lessons to 20 students.

Debra Roy, president of the board of directors for a San Diego nonprofit, said what started as an after-school club run by volunteers now runs weekend and partnership programs that serve over 2,500 students per year.

The Ion District, a technology park in Houston established as a joint project between the city and Rice University, will host tuition-free classes this fall for certifications from CompTIA and Google IT.

As part of the 30th annual Solar Car Challenge, high schoolers from Pasadena's Polytechnic School will race against other teams driving 1,400 miles from Texas to California in a solar-powered vehicle they built.

Among the education-related bills signed by Hawaii Gov. Josh Green this week was HB503, which calls upon the state board of education to assess when, and whether, to make computer science a graduation requirement.