Technical Education

A group of 35 government, higher ed and nonprofit institutions and employers will host workshops and other efforts aimed at diversifying STEM fields and making the tech industry more representative for women of color.

Virtual-reality headsets at the Kanawha County American Job Center transport West Virginia students to career sites such as transmission towers, construction zones or emergency situations.

A growing program at Illinois State University that combines fine arts and technology will expand to be its own school, with offerings in audio and music production, game design, VR and interdisciplinary studies.

The Pennsylvania Apprenticeship and Training Council called the community college's new "earn-while-you-learn" IT training program a model for apprenticeship programs throughout the state.

The coding education platform CodeMonkey has launched a new course in data science for students in grades five and six. The offering features hands-on coding lessons and interactive learning games.

A new internship program for high school students in Ohio proposes to give them entry-level work experience at technology companies throughout the state, which will be reimbursed for wages they pay to student interns.

An apprenticeship program at Velocity Vehicle Group in the Los Angeles metro area is training workers to service heavy-duty electric vehicles. The training is partnered with similar educational opportunities at Rio Hondo College.

A public community college in Alabama is spending $30 million to double the size of its Advanced Technology Center to support aerospace, welding and manual machining programs.

Two elementary school students in Southern California won honorable mention at this year's Congressional App Challenge Award for an app that can immediately notify family and emergency services of an active shooter.

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.

A trio of students from Forbes Road Career and Technology Center in Pennsylvania have spent the past year traveling to libraries, senior centers and schools with a presentation about cybersecurity and online scams.

As part of a developing innovation district intended to train future generations for technology jobs, ASU is investing heavily in educational and research facilities that will be open to tech industry partners.

In 2024, California State University, Sacramento will open The National Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Education to train current and future teachers to use the technology ethically and effectively.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Enrollment at Georgia's technical college system is up 10.6 percent from the same point a year ago, and several schools are on track for record enrollment highs after having dropped nearly 10 percent during the pandemic.