STEM

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.

Finalists from North Carolina, Indiana and Pennsylvania created technology to change how student outcomes are assessed in a $1 million contest run by XPRIZE and an arm of the U.S. Department of Education.

SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany has purchased a new plasma technology tool from Oxford Instruments that could help researchers develop a computer chip containing 1 trillion transistors.

A new world of problem-solving tech companies is fast emerging in our time, and today's students have a lot to gain by venturing out of the classroom, whether by field trip or Zoom tour, to see it for themselves.

K-12 schools and universities in several states are using gamification to teach science through virtual experiments, simulators and LMS integrations like those offered by the global ed-tech company Labster.

Fortune 500 companies are working with City University of New York campuses, Amazon Web Services and government leaders to update or redesign IT curricula at area colleges to suit the needs of employers.

A private research university in Chicago is loosening undergraduate admission requirements for math while adding online graduate programs in fields such as information technology and data science.

A grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation will be distributed among 11 districts and used to evaluate their computer science and other STEM programs, provide scholarships and fund professional development.