Technical Education

The Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence is taking applications through May 20. Prize money will go to 20 educators whose programs inspire kids to pursue careers in skilled trades.

Bitwise Industries is offering six-week online introductory courses in tech skills to five locations across the U.S., with financial assistance intended to recruit those who have been left out of the digital economy.

A design engineer at the hand-tool company reflects on four years with RoboBOTS, a student robot-building competition, from which she got hands-on experience that led her to discover an interest in manufacturing.

Partnering with Washington’s Bellevue School District on a two-week pilot program, the ed-tech company successfully prepared teachers to incorporate coding into core subjects after one day of training.

Experts at MIT, SANS Institute and many private and public organizations fear "the worst is yet to come" with respect to cyber attacks, as U.S. programs have failed to certify enough professionals to prepare for them.

Sophomores at Corvallis High School built a low-cost sensor that tests for levels of carbon dioxide, particulate matter 2.5 and nitrogen dioxide. They used it to measure pollution near a local glass fiber plant.

Thirty years ago, a group of women in Georgia launched Women in Technology because they didn’t see other women in leadership roles, and in recent years their organization has continued to evolve and grow.

The V-CRED program, operated by the city and the City University of New York, will offer free vocational training in information technology, electrical work, certified nursing, pharmacy technology and building trades.

The Chicago-based university received the largest donation in its history from video game designer Eugene Jarvis and his wife, Sasha Gerritson, to enrich programs for computer science, cybersecurity, data science and other areas.

As part of the Pathways in Technology Early College High School program, Joppatowne High School hosted mentors from the U.S. Army to conduct mock interviews for jobs in computer information systems and cybersecurity.

The ed-tech nonprofit has named four groups from Iowa, Hawaii, California and New York as finalists in a national competition in which students hone digital skills while working on projects to expand technology access.

The new supercomputer promises advanced processing capabilities for conducting large-scale simulations and sharing data. Purdue hopes researchers at other institutions will leverage the Anvil for their work.

A research scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, who started the nonprofit Itkan Institute of Technology, has formed four student-led robotics teams in North Texas in hopes of encouraging interest in STEM.

The Washington, D.C., academy was founded with a focus on computer science education and equitable access to technology, achieving a 50-50 boys-to-girls ratio in computer science before the disruptions of COVID-19.

Engineers at the university's Homewood campus in Baltimore are working on a robotically assisted surgical device that would make the delicate work of suturing more consistent, potentially minimizing complications.

A volumetric motion capture studio at the NSU Broward Center of Innovation will create 360-degree images of environments, such as a crime scene or a surgery patient's body, to train students for real-world situations.

The University Consortium Research Opportunity partnership will increase collaboration between the U.S. Space Force, Air Force and universities for research into various aspects of space, physics and related technology.

The University of South Carolina's Pacer Center for Excellence in Business Research and Entrepreneurship will be a training hub with expertise in data mining, business analytics, cybersecurity and other subjects.