STEM

Tupelo Middle School in Missouri has a robotics class that feeds into after-school programs that reach even more students, giving them not just technical knowledge but practice with hands-on problem-solving.

More than $210,000 in grant funding from the Indiana Department of Education will help teachers support K-12 families with issues related to educational technology and blended-learning and virtual-learning environments.

The Oklahoma State University Polytech initiative will increase STEM programming across the OSU system, starting with the expansion of OSUIT in Tulsa, and solicit guidance on academic programming from industry leaders.

The University of Pittsburgh's new master's degree in data science, delivered fully online through Coursera, will teach core computational concepts, data management, programming for analysis and other subjects.

Gov. Kathy Hochul and Micron Technology pledged more than $70 million to renovate a high school building in downtown Syracuse that has been closed for nearly 50 years. Classes are expected to begin in 2025.

Watertown City School District and nine others in New York state will begin piloting an educational program in 2024 developed by teachers and Micron to interest and train students in semiconductor technology.

A 30,000-square-foot, single-story facility on the southeast corner of Clark State's Springfield campus will accommodate academic programs for middle and high school students through the Global Impact STEM Academy.

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories recently hosted its third annual daylong Hour of Code at Potlatch Elementary School, where a coding education program taught students to build their own animations and mini-games.

A recent study of Generation Z’s attitudes toward STEM found that only 29 percent of them cite STEM jobs as their first career choices, despite 75 percent expressing interest in the subjects academically.

For Computer Science Education Week, computer science students in Colorado are using free coding games to teach the subject to elementary students at area schools.

More than 8,500 applicants to the University of Washington this fall chose computer science as their first-choice major, with hundreds more transferring from other majors or the state's community college network.

Robotics competitions like the FIRST Tech challenge bring hundreds of students into academic and extracurricular programs that encourage interest and aptitude in science, technology, engineering and math.

Part of a major building project at the rapidly growing university will be a facility of classrooms, offices, research and teaching labs for science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

The University of Massachusetts Amherst will create an interdisciplinary team to conduct equity-based reviews of its policies and procedures, and devise plans to counter racial disparities in STEM programs.

University of Missouri and Harvard-Smithsonian researchers found that “STEM Career Days” can build an early interest in STEM fields, which could help meet the demand for trained professionals and diversify the field.

The national nonprofit Let's Move in Libraries recently awarded Laura Munski, executive director of the Dakota Science Center, for her work with local educators to host and promote STEM programs.

Valerie Taylor, director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois, says STEM diversity is increasing, but the academic environment must be made welcoming to all.

An annual event in Frederick, Maryland, invites students from area high schools to see how science, technology, engineering and math affect people's everyday lives, and how accessible professions in those fields are.