STEM

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.

As part of an ongoing statewide initiative to boost poor math scores, school districts can sign up to provide students and teachers with free access to digital resources from the New York-based nonprofit Zearn.

Michigan launched the EV Scholars program, a $10,000 scholarship for students who accept job offers as electric engineers or software developers at 15 companies partnering with the state, to staff growing industries.

A conference at Hood College in Maryland this week coached educators on preparing young students for computer science and computational thinking with skills like pattern recognition, algorithmic design and analysis.

As part of a $10 million pledge to local schools and a talent pipeline for a planned manufacturing complex nearby, a computer chip company hosted free STEM activities this week at Liverpool Middle School in New York.

Over the past three years, Ed Farm has opened K-12 learning spaces to train students in STEM, created specialized training to empower STEM teachers and provided virtual resources and tech internships at the university level.

A Washington school district will use grant money from Eastern Oregon University's Greater Oregon STEM Hub to buy robots to develop coding skills in young students and augment the teaching of other subjects.

The nonprofit Women Leading Technology is working with the University of Texas at Dallas, the city of Richardson and Techie Factory to introduce girls and young women to architecture as a potential career.

A public community college in Ohio is partnering with a defense technology firm for curriculum development and internships to train a workforce capable of filling jobs in modeling, simulation and cybersecurity.

IBM is working with a private Christian university in Kentucky to provide no-cost training for STEM careers that involve IT and business, such as enterprise data science and building cloud-based mobile tools.

A free event organized by St. Clair County Community College in Michigan aims to get students interested in STEM with virtual reality experiences, robotics, virtual anatomy dissection, rocket launches and other exhibits.

Adam Garry, senior director of education strategy at Dell, says in a Q&A that schools could better prepare students by developing an ideal portrait of a graduate and moving to portfolio assessments instead of tests.