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STEM Jobs
Silicon Valley Interns Make a Service Worker�s Yearly Salary In Three Months (The Daily Beast)
Six-figure salaries. Flexible hours. Luxury housing. Ah, the life of an intern. This past weekend, high school senior Tiffany Zhong, the chief product officer of the app Glimpse and one of the tech industry�s �55 Unknown Rock Stars� according to investor Marc Andreessen, shared a list of top internship offers for aspiring software engineers looking for work at major tech firms. The numbers are staggering: an intern at companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, or LinkedIn can make anywhere between $6,000 and $10,000 a month, not including sizable housing stipends built to match the skyrocketing cost of living in places like San Francisco, where the median price of a home recently passed $1 million. 
STEM Shopping 2014
Announcing The Ultimate Makers� Gift Guide 2014 (MAKE)
The gift-giving season officially kicks off this week � and we�re here to help with our Ultimate Makers� Gift Guide for 2014. Our five experts pored over hundreds of items to hand select the bright and shining stars in five of our favorite categories. They�ve double- and triple-checked their list, and provided it for us to share with the world. Inside you�ll find a wide variety of great gifts for all skill levels. We�ve put a lot of thought and hard work into this guide. Hopefully it will help make this holiday season rock for you and all those who receive your gifts! #1. Drones: Whether a beginner or advanced pilot, there�s something here to make your imagination take flight. Browse both ready-to-fly items and must-have upgrades..
Give the Gift of STEM Skills for the Holidays (ImpactX)
The possibilities for gifts for little ones this holiday season are endless. While some gifts will undoubtedly be long sought-after and pure fun, the holiday season is great time to get your children interested in activities that promote learning, particularly in the ever-growing fields of [STEM]. Lillian Kellogg, vice president of client services for Education Networks of America, a past chairperson for the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and a member of Goddard School Educational Advisory Board believes that it is important to build upon children's inborn curiosity to help them succeed in STEM. A way to promote an interest in STEM this holiday season is to seek out toys that are so much fun your kids may not even realize that they are building a solid foundation in STEM through play.
Diversity in STEM
Stay With STEM: Why We Need To Keep Women As Engineering Majors In College (Forbes)
As college acceptance letters go out over the next few months to the millions of high school seniors applying to universities in the United States this year, it is important to note that nearly half of all engineering majors drop out or change majors before they graduate. Melody McCloskey, who founded StyleSeat, a social-media site for the beauty industry, recently talked with The Story Exchange about being discouraged in a high school computer coding class because she was the only woman enrolled. When it was time to choose a university major, McCloskey went with international relations and French. Universities are trying to shift that sense of deterrence.
To STEM-finity And Beyond! (Armed with Science)
STEM tudents from middle school through college rolled up their sleeves and embraced with gusto all the 26th Annual Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation (HENAAC) Conference had to offer. Not even the allure of the Big Easy�s famed sugarcoated beignets could keep this crowd from their STEM pursuits. As an example of such engagement, the HENAAC Conference convenes some of the best and the brightest STEM students and professional leaders from the military services, academia, and private and public organizations such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Chevron Corporation. Orchestrated by the national nonprofit organization Great Minds in STEM, the HENAAC Conference provides networking and mentoring opportunities, learning programs, and resources for educators and students, particularly those from underserved communities.
Latinas face challenges in STEM (Technician)
Being a Latina in STEM is a catalyst for a volley of challenges foreign to other demographics, but it also comes with its advantages. The underrepresentation of Latinas in STEM s a growing concern within the Latin American community in the United States. With only three percent being represented in STEM fields, they remain a largely untapped pool of potential talent. Associate professor of information systems at NC State, Fay Cobb Payton, recently published a book titled Leveraging Intersectionality, on what could be done to make STEM more inclusive. In a short interview with Matt Shipman of The Abstract: NC State�s research blog, Payton described the effect of exclusion in the workforce and the importance of diversity.
Higher Education
Hudson Valley adding new clean technology degree program (Albany Business Review)
Hudson Valley Community College is developing a clean energy degree program, an area that college president Andrew Matonak has identified as big need. The board of trustees will vote to approve an associates degree in clean energy management at its board meeting Tuesday night. The program will teach students how to sell, install and create a financial package for clean energy customers. Hudson Valley is known for its programs in advanced manufacturing and technology. Many of these programs operate out of the school's satellite campus called TEC-SMART in Malta, about a mile from the GlobalFoundries computer chip manufacturing plant.
Kelly Services, DeVry partner to fill STEM gap (Chicago Tribune)
DeVry University and Kelly Services are teaming up to fill a skills gap that makes it difficult for one of the world's largest staffing firms to find the kind of skilled labor it needs for jobs that require [STEM] skills. The partnership means that workers with Kelly Services will be eligible for 15 percent off tuition, an application fee waiver, special military pricing for active-duty military and their spouses and deferred billing at DeVry University and its Keller Graduate School of Management. "As the demand for STEM talent continues to rise, it's important that Kelly have partners in education that are identifying and responding to employment needs," said Jocelyn Lincoln, vice president, Americas recruiting, Kelly Services.
STEM Competitions
Meet Andy, CMU's new lunar rover (Pittsburgh Business Times)
On Monday, researchers at Carnegie Mellon university unveiled what may be their ticket to the moon. Andy, a four-wheeled robot that gets its name from the university's namesakes Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon, is designed to explore the moon's pits, caves and poles.Andy was largely developed by a student team over the last nine months, drawing on expertise from CMU's School of Computer Science, the College of Engineering, the College of Fine Arts and the Mellon College of Science. It marks CMU's contribution to an effort led by Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic Technology Inc. to land a rover on the moon and win the $20 million-plus Google Lunar XPrize.
Hackaday Prize Winner Announced (MAKE)
The Hackaday prize, where entrants competed to build something awesome that transmits data and is openly documented, has now been won by the satNOGs team led by Pierros Papadeas. The device, or system rather, is a open standard based network of ground stations for tracking and monitoring satellites. As cool as that is, the prize, a trip into space or $196,418, is arguably even better! This seems like an appropriate prize for such a skyward-centric project. The well-produced video explaining more about what this is can be seen below. Given how many people participated on this project, I�d have to expect that the cash prize would be more expedient than a trip into space!
Coding
East London Kids To Be Offered Training Loans To Learn Coding (TechCrunch)
A new digital skills training fund will be piloted in the U.K. in January which will offer loans to non-graduate young people from East London with the dual aim of tackling the ongoing U.K. tech skills shortage while also addressing a socio-economic gap that tech risks exacerbating. The fund, called the Tech City Fellowship, will offer educational loans of up to �11,600 per student to non-graduate 18 to 25 year olds to pay for a place on a training course that teaches software developer skills. The 12-week coding bootcamp course in question is being run by Makers Academy, one of the collaborating partners for the Fellowship.
STEM Food & Ag
Navajo Tech receives $447,748 grant (Albuquerque Business First
.jpg) Navajo Technical University in Crownpoint has been given $447,748 for a distance learning initiative. The funding for the project is coming through the federal Department of Agriculture's Distance Learning and Telemedicine program. The program is intended to boost employment in the area by allowing students to successfully take classes without having to travel long distances to reach the campus, said Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), who announced the grant with Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM). "These funds for distance learning programs will provide critical education and training tools to the Navajo community and should be a model for other colleges serving rural areas," Heinrich said in a statement. "By increasing access to education programs and job training, especially in telemedicine, we improve the quality of life and future economic prospects for our communities." |
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SITF Members Discuss STEM 2.0 At Global Action Summit in Nashville
 On Tuesday morning at the Global Action Summit in Nashville, leaders of STEMconnector�s Innovation Task Force (SITF) discussed STEM 2.0 during a panel moderated by celebrated journalist and author, Fareed Zakaria. The panelists focused on the importance of three foundational STEM 2.0 capabilities: employability skills, innovation excellence, and digital fluency in relation to the evolving landscape and dynamics of today�s globalized economy. The panel kicked off with a quick overview of STEM 2.0 by SITF-chair, Dr. Heidi Kleinbach-Sauter of PepsiCo, which outlined the need for the STEM 2.0 movement from an employer�s perspective.
100 Diverse Corporate Leaders in STEM - William Gipson of Procter & Gamble
 William Gipson is the Chief Diversity Officer and Senior Vice President of Research and Development, Global Hair Care, Color, and Salon Professional at Procter & Gamble. "Diversity & Inclusion as a critical enabler for innovation, connecting seemingly unconnected nodes to create innovative products that delight the consumers we want to serve. We know that fully leveraging our Diversity and Inclusion leads to bigger and better innovations. By creating diverse teams of people we bring together different styles of thinking. And by connecting these diverse nodes we spark innovative ideas. By design, Diversity & Inclusion is top of mind and embedded into our systems and processes, for sustained change."
The EdTech Weekly Report: November 24, 2014
 This week in an all-new EdTech Weekly Report: Chromebooks surpass iPads as most used education device, the $35 tablet changing education in India, Harvey Mudd experimenting with "flipped" classroom model, U.S. Treasury awards big contract to Oakland EdTech startup MindBlown Labs, and much more!
STEM Higher Education Council December 3rd Town Hall
 Join us for our upcoming Town Hall Google+ Hangout! The December 3rd Town Hall will allow members to highlight how they are driving meaningful change in higher education. We will also showcase our upcoming book, Advancing a Jobs-Driven Economy: Higher Education and Business Partnerships Lead The Way. Confirmed speakers include Rob Denson (President, DMACC), Martha Kanter (Former Under Secretary, Dept. of Education), Dr. Mitzi Montoya (VP & Dean for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, ASU), Dr. Chad Womack (Director of Science Education Initiatives, UNCF), Dr. Andrew Grosovsky (Dean of College of Science and Mathematics, UMASS-Boston), and many more! |
