Top 3 Dangerous Trends Facing STEM Majors Today!
Imagine that someone sits a million dollars in a briefcase on the back of someone's porch in DC and tells you to find it. With no GPS, how long would it take? Months? Years? You may never find it. Now imagine having a GPS. All you need to do is follow the tool to the briefcase. Easy money!
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High School Launches Engineering Academy
Mark Conner, Engineering Teacher at Hoover High, used SolidProfessor in the classroom, to train teachers, and eventually launch an online engineering academy, Catapult Engineering Academy, to make their resources available to students everywhere.
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"Make Me a Millionaire" Launches
From a fountain that gushes marinara sauce to a mouth guard that can detect concussive hits, CNBC gives a second chance to the best inventions never made in a new series, "Make Me a Millionaire Inventor,"on Wednesday August 12th.
CNBC examines exactly
how much STEM research and development it takes to get an invention from concept to prototype. Read more here
Engineering Survey Opportunity
As part of an NSF-funded project, researchers from Technical Education Research Centers, Inc. (TERC) and Eureka Scientific, Inc. invite women of color who are undergraduates or in their early careers (10 years or less from their terminal degree) to do an interview about their lived experiences in engineering. Read more here
STEM Magazine, August 2015
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