STEM

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.

After winning a World Summit Award for teaching coding to K-8 students, Teachers Lead Tech started offering its educational platform to U.S. schools near the end of the 2022-2023 academic year.

Luther High School, a private religious school in La Crosse, will teach students about base manufacturing technologies, smart sensors and devices, control systems, connectivity, networking, automation and data analytics.

A new report from the software company EducationDynamics pulls data from the National Center for Education Statistics to predict which higher ed programs will experience the most enrollment growth over the next decade.

West Virginia University's Statler College of Engineering is putting on a summer camp to introduce K-12 students to engineering concepts and immerse them in a collaborative problem-solving environment.

A science center in Detroit will use money from NASA to build an immersive learning experience called "Urban Skies — Equitable Universe: Using Open Space to Empower Youth to Explore Their Solar System and Beyond."

A makerspace with educational and high-tech equipment, a nonprofit innovation collaboratory that connects students to job opportunities, and a technology and innovation council support STEM in Carroll County, Maryland.

A New York community college has unveiled plans for a 130,000-square-foot facility to train students for jobs in industries such as automotive and transportation tech, offshore wind, HVAC and semiconductor manufacturing.