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Welcome!
Here's this week's edition of the STEM Ed Update.
Keep in mind three events next week. On April 22-24 the Humans to Mars Summit will take place (students free opening day). On April 23rd, the ASME Decision Point Dialogue will discuss Critical Thinking, Critical Choices: What Really Matters in STEM. Immediately after, the U.S. News STEM Solutions National Leadership Conference starts and will last from the 23-25 (be sure to use the discount code: SEC14).
In addition, this is your last chance to win one of the ten space kits Canvas Space Program is giving away to K-12 classrooms across the nation (worth about $1000 each). It is easy to participate, just submit a 60 second video from classrooms telling them why they should win here.
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Coalition Update
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Coalition Announces Updated Core Policy Principles
The STEM Education Coalition today issued a 2014 update to its Core Policy Principles, the document the Coalition uses to guide its public policy agenda.
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Top Article:
Obama Announces $600 Million in Grant Programs to Prepare Workforce for Jobs
Washington Post
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President Obama on Wednesday announced a pair of grant programs designed to bring academic institutions and businesses closer together to help prepare the American workforce for jobs that may otherwise go unfilled. The grant programs total $600 million, money already in the federal budget. The decision to  designate the money for these grants arose from a review of federal jobs programs by Vice President Biden, who joined Obama at a community college here outside Pittsburgh to make the announcement.
Read more here.
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Stay in the Know:
Latest STEM Education Policy News Across the U.S. |
With Time Running Out, Arne Duncan Discusses His Lengthy To-Do List
Education Week
In the waning years of the Obama administration, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sees several important and difficult priorities ahead of him, he told Education Week in a wide-ranging 30-minute interview. Chief among them: The transition to new standards and tests, the debut of new teacher evaluations tied to test scores, and the costly drive to expand preschool.
Read more here.
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Making it Millennial: Public Policy and the Next Generation
Deloitte University Press
Millennials, the rising generation of adults in the United States born between 1980 and 1995, are a topic of societal fascination. A quick Internet search returns more than 15,000 blog posts, editorials, and news articles on Millennials, in which they are characterized by adjectives as varied as apathetic, engaged, selfish, civic, entitled, and impatient. They are the focus of popular television shows and box-office hits. In boardrooms, marketers suggest how to appeal to them as consumers, while managers contemplate how to attract and retain them as employees. At dinner tables across the country, parents and grandparents fret about their plans for the future.
Read more here.
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Six Women Who Paved the Way for Female Engineers and Architects
Gizmodo
 The Brooklyn Bridge was an awesome feat of engineering that required not just scientific prowess, but political strength. For 14 years, the construction of the bridge was overseen and managed by a woman named Emily Warren Roebling, who took over the role as chief engineer after her husband fell ill.
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Science Brain Drain in the US?
MSNBC
Are sequestration cuts and a tight federal budget causing the country's top young scientists to become "disenchanted or lured to better opportunities elsewhere," as the Huffington Post's Sam Stein writes?
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'I Want To Be An Astronaut' Documentary Hopes To Emphasize STEM Education
University Herald
Most of the time, one's  senior project or master's thesis or even dissertation is a long paper ranging somewhere in length between a short story, novella, and maybe even a novel. Sometimes, such projects lead to something greater. Author Jonathan Safran Foer's Princeton thesis eventually became the best-selling novel, "Everything is Illuminated," which was converted to a movie. Rarer is when one's final collegiate work is the something greater, like David Ruck's masters thesis NASA documentary, "I Want To Be An Astronaut." Read more here.
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We appreciate your continued support and involvement.
Sincerely,
The STEM Education Coalition
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Our Coalition's Co-Chairs
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April 18, 2014
Canvas Space Program Space Kit Contest
Apply
April 22-24, 2014
Humans 2 Mars
Summit 2014
April 23, 2014
Critical Thinking, Critical Choices: What Really Matters in STEM
April 23-25, 2014
U.S. News STEM Solutions
April 25-27
Lockheed Martin and
USA Science & Engineering Festival
Register
June 3-4, 2014
National Research Council
Workshop on Successful Out-of-School STEM Learning
White House 2014
Annual White House
Maker Fare
OSTP White House Internship
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