Technical Education

Thurgood Marshall Learning Center, an alternative secondary program at Rock Island-Milan School District, is generating buzz among students for its program teaching digital audio and other modern media skills.

Michigan State University and the University of Michigan are working with business leaders on a plan to help small to medium-sized automotive manufacturers transition to the electric vehicle market.

A private university in Connecticut announced plans to construct an $85 million, 90,000-square-foot high school with industrial shops and equipment, technical classrooms, computer labs and a cybersecurity war room.

A public technical college in Wisconsin will use a private donation to make advanced manufacturing equipment available for students and help build their skills and background knowledge with robotics.

The nonprofit Bioversity is now part of the Lowell Innovation Network Corridor project, UMass Lowell's $800 million development plan launched in April that recruits industry partners to help create jobs for the city.

The Oregon Department of Education this week announced the release of “Sassy,” a free AI-driven tool that aims to make career exploration more fun and less daunting for middle and high school students.

The Accelerator for Community Colleges in the Innovation Economy program will provide assistance with research and workforce development in emerging technology to colleges associated with 10 regional hubs.

Texas researchers found adult education programs often lack sufficient access to technology, funding to maintain or upgrade what they have, and professional development necessary to use and teach it to students.

High school seniors will be able to apply for the University of Texas at Austin's robotics program through the Common App or Apply Texas portals, starting research the first year and the minor curriculum the second year.

The two high schoolers came out on top of nearly 50 others during a paid summer internship in which they learned to build mobile apps to benefit their community. They won the chance to make a proposal in real life.

Starting this fall, Western Connecticut State University in Danbury will begin offering a master of science degree in artificial intelligence, with in-person classes focused on mathematics and computer science.

A community college in Kentucky recently received $650,000 from the National Science Foundation and a redesignation as a Center for Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD).

North Carolina high school students will be able to qualify for job interviews with the drone delivery company Zipline as part of a new partnership with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.

Located in a previously unused wing of a high school, a technical training center in Louisiana offers classrooms and training space for welding, process technology and electrical instrumentation.

Researchers at the Kentucky university have garnered attention this year for studies about how artificial intelligence could prevent cloud computing attacks, and how LLMs could respond to health care challenges.

Chippewa Valley Technical College partnered with Junior Achievement to put on a five-day STEM camp for high schoolers, with hands-on experiences with gas and diesel vehicles, HVAC and welding in a manufacturing lab.

The university's Hyde Park Labs, set to open in 2025, will provide lab and office space for life sciences, data science and renewable energy researchers, and host venture capital firms ready to support new technology.

A former train station in Detroit, now a mixed-use technology campus, hosted 60 students this summer who were part of Google’s Code Next program, intended to engage underrepresented students in computer science.