Technical Education

With a contribution from DuPont, the state will use Discovery Education’s digital learning platform to build an interest in science, technology, engineering and math careers that are in high demand.

The New Mexico Institute for Mining and Technology has launched three new companies to develop and market new technologies, including low-cost water filtration, motion-powered wearable sensors and a new disinfectant.

A 36,000-gallon ocean and atmosphere simulator at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institute of Oceanography will allow researchers to study interactions between wind, waves and microbial life with unprecedented accuracy.

Funded in part by federal COVID-19 relief programs, the school’s 40,000-square-foot facility has 17 technical lab spaces where students will train in multiple disciplines and fields of the energy industry.

With a pair of $1 million state grants, Columbia State Community College in Tennessee will establish a mobile classroom for its emergency medical technician training program in partnership with Hickman County Schools.

Tennessee Tech University students brought lesson plans involving robots to Willow Brook Elementary School in Oak Ridge this week, learning teaching skills while sharing STEM technology with early grade levels.

Manchester School District in New Hampshire is co-funding an initiative from the National Collaborative for Digital Equity to deliver refurbished laptops to students and teach them about hardware, software and functions.

The UT Education and Research Center at Laredo will include a first-of-its-kind School of Biomedical Informatics, dealing with data science, A.I., clinical and health informatics, bioinformatics and systems medicine.

Mark Galassi, an astrophysicist and computer programmer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, runs an extracurricular system that starts with chess, ventures into computer coding and culminates with a research internship.

Voters in Utica, N.Y., will decide whether Thomas R. Proctor High School should add a 28,300-square-foot addition for career and technical education programs to accommodate growing enrollment.

University researchers have created a prototype that measures respiration and can be worn like an insulin pump, so if the wearer stops breathing and moving for 15 seconds, it administers naloxone.

The center will give students research experience with companies such as AONDevices and BrainLeap Technologies, developing new products with artificial intelligence, virtual reality and other emerging technologies.

A $195,000 donation from a local senior citizens center will help Clear Lake Community School District in Iowa add an instructor to its industrial program, which offers technical training in a skilled-trades field.

South Dakota high school students worked in teams to design and build robots to snag small rings, drag larger mobile goals, manipulate platforms and perform other tasks in a weekend competition.

Teachers and students at a Catholic high school and a pre-K through 8th public school are learning to collaborate through FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a nonprofit robotics program.

The university's new 74,000-square-foot building has an incubator space intended to grow startups that solve real-world problems, touching everything from cellphones to health care to education to the environment.

The University at Albany this week held a ribbon-cutting for its Emerging Technology and Entrepreneurship Complex, which houses programs such as atmospheric sciences, emergency services and homeland security.

Slated to open in 2024, six academies will focus on information technology and cybersecurity, medicine, economics, professional and public service, art and engineering, and communications and design.