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PLTW & US2020 STEM Mentoring Program
Project Lead The Way (PLTW), the nation's leading provider of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs, announced a new partnership with US2020 to provide high-quality mentoring experiences for PLTW students by connecting them with industry professionals.
Read more here.
UTI & NASCAR Featured on NBC's TODAY Show
NBC's "Today Show" aired a segment about UTI on its "Tricks of the Trade School" series. The segment, which was seen by more than five million viewers across the country, features the automotive program at NASCAR Technical Institute. It also highlights the importance of technical schools, and captured many of the key messages we use to differentiate our brand from the competition.
Watch here.
iNERDE
Starting this month, 30 fourth- and fifth-graders in Bamako, Mali, will get to be total nerds-that is, campers at iNERDE, the summer program Mohamed Kante founded to bring STEM education opportunities to his native country.
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and Bring Your Own App (BYOA)
The workforce is becoming hyper-mobile - people like you are working from their own devices and bringing their own apps into the office to improve their productivity. To help utilize the growing changes and opportunities BYOA & BYOD are presenting their free research brief.
Guerilla Educators
At the Barack Obama Green Charter High School, students participated over the last 5 months on one of the finest examples of hands-on Inquiry Based Projects surrounding science, technology, engineering, and math curricula.
Underwater Dreams
Underwater Dreams, narrated by Michael Pe�a, is the true story of how the sons of undocumented Mexican immigrants learned how to build underwater robots. And go up against MIT in the process.
Physics for Rock Stars
Christine McKinley is a musician, award winning playwright, mechanical engineer, tv star from History Channel's "Brad Meltzers: Decoded". Her book and website, Physics for Rock Stars, explains the world of basic physics with clarity, humor, and a shot of adrenaline.
Equity Project Charter School
The Equity Project (TEP) Charter School is currently seeking outstanding science teacher candidates - they are reaching out for strong candidate referrals. They were featured in the NYT and on 60 Minutes, and are now looking for applicants.
Science Matters Toolkit
The payback on federally funded basic scientific research is all around us, yet federal funding for research and development has been on a downward trend for the past decade. Help change the trend with the Science Coalition's new advocacy toolkit.
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competitive grant opportunities to states that form network-based partnerships between schools, universities, business, and community groups to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. The STEM Education Coalition and its members had the opportunity to work closely with Garcia and his staff as this bill was developed over the last several weeks.
private-public partnerships with companies and nonprofits that was intended to get more students fascinated by science, technology, engineering and math - the so-called STEM fields...But that goal has been an elusive one.
something for the event (though it didn't), and when the leader of the free world talks to Russell the Electric Giraffe. "Look at this!" Obama said, gazing at the 17-foot-high, 2,200-pound steel creature on wheeled legs, as its mouth opened and closed and its neck swayed side to side. "I like those ears."
faces. Since the operative phrase here is "collective choices" - decisions made through democratic processes - here are a few questions to consider.
