Technical Education

Ivy Tech Community College's STEM mobile lab is bringing Project Lead the Way coursework to K-6 classrooms at Anderson Community Schools in Indiana, introducing kids to technology they might otherwise not have access to.

Founded in 2017 to help close the income gap between Black and white residents, Rooted School teaches core subjects but also has students spend two hours a day on technological skills such as coding or graphic design.

Caresoft Global Inc. donated a software package valued at $1 million so students in the Department of Automotive and Manufacturing Engineering Technology could gain experience working virtually on electric vehicles.

Gov. Roy Cooper’s declaration is the latest show of support for STEM after a series of programs designed to usher in a new generation of STEM-focused students, whom Cooper says will be the workforce of tomorrow.

The University of Texas at San Antonio has increasingly participated in research for NASA and other federal agencies in recent years, and it has reached out to Space X in hopes of creating student internships and jobs.

The new building will house 20 cutting-edge labs and the school’s electrical engineering, computer technology, machining, advanced manufacturing, construction management, practical electricity and HVAC programs.

The Hartford-based museum has a range of STEM program packages for schools, costing from $5,000 to $25,000, designed to help ignite students’ passions in the field and prepare them for the workforce.

Gov. JB Pritzker has proclaimed April as “Innovation and Technology Month” in the state as part of an effort to highlight technological achievements in quantum computing and support education and workforce growth.

Students with Mount Vernon Community School District will use a $40,000 grant to outfit a school bus with technology and convert it into an elementary classroom with solar panels, a deck and an outdoor learning space.

Thirty teams from elementary, middle and high schools are registered to compete at the Albany Civic Center this weekend. Students will solve STEM-related problems and show off machines they built to sink balls in hoops.

With enrollment in the university's engineering and science school on the upswing, the new building will accommodate fast-growing SUNY programs in aerospace engineering, data science and artificial intelligence.

As part of Purdue Foundry's Boost accelerator program, companies pitched ideas and won investments for technology solutions to problems in additive manufacturing, aerospace vehicles and bovine reproduction.

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.