STEM

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.

Deloitte and Amazon Web Services will donate robotics kits, curriulum and training materials to a middle school, with plans to extend STEM outreach to more middle and high schools in the nation’s capital by 2026.

A Women in STEM Innovation event hosted by the Midland Business Alliance encouraged high-school-aged women and girls to hear from industry professionals about work-life balance, common myths and how to move up.

A computer science student at Amherst College and a technical manager at Nuance forged a mutually beneficial relationship through Thrive Scholars, a program that supports students of color from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education located at a U.S. Department of Energy facility has served local children for decades. The programs have advanced AI, robotics and coding.

Shift_ed, a nonprofit that promotes career and technical education, transformed a school bus into the Mobile Innovation Lab, a makerspace with hands-on activities to expose middle schoolers to STEAM fields.

The two agencies signed a memorandum of understanding to continue promoting STEM for students from diverse backgrounds, with NASA providing educational content for after-school programs and other STEM initiatives.

A a 52,000-square-foot, $22 million campus will start with 122 students in fields such as IT-cybersecurity, construction and welding, offering them post-secondary credits and industry certificates.

Gov. Eric Holcomb and the Indiana Department of Education are promoting STEM by awarding letterman jackets and $1,000 scholarships to distinguished students, and spotlighting schools for STEM leadership.

Some educators and advocates say the best way to break the cycle of poverty is by accessing well-paid STEM jobs, as well as the many scholarships that go unawarded each year due to a lack of applicants.

In a local event mimicking the popular reality TV show Shark Tank, students used Tinkercad, a free app for computer-assisted design, to create a prototype of an invention or innovation to solve real-world problems.

Nonprofit OpenStax, which makes free online learning materials, has partnered with tutoring firm Scalar Learning. Enhanced algebra and trigonometry books featuring YouTuber Huzefa Kapadia will be out soon.