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"Last Week Tonight" Features SWE Scholarship Program: More Than $3 Million Awarded to Date
The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is proud to encourage more women to pursue rewarding careers in engineering through a host of scholarship opportunities. With a single application, traditional and returning engineering students can make their dreams a reality through the SWE Scholarship program. As mentioned on John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight" on HBO Sept. 21, SWE has awarded more than $700,000 in financial aid this year alone.
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Fluke Connect: $1,000 Student Contest
We want future professionals to show us how they would use our newest technology on the job. We're looking for students enrolled in two and four-year colleges, universities, trade/tech schools and apprenticeship programs.
Apply here.
Groovy Lab in a Box
As science educators who have both worked in private industry, we wanted to create something that inspired critical thinking and a genuine love of learning. We believed more "doing" and "experiencing" of actual science practices is essential to science education. Groovy Lab in a Box has many facets to its design and can be utilized by schools, after school programs, homeschoolers, and parents of natural born STEMists.
Webucator Announces New Student STEM Program
As Webucator specializes in training in the corporate world, and know how valuable these skills are. So, we've decided to make all of our self-paced courses available for free to STEM students. This includes courses on web development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.), Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc), Photoshop, Dreamweaver and many others.
Read more here.
National Youth Summit Series
The National Youth Summit Series brings together some of the best and brightest students to focus on maker, healthy living, and agri-science. Designed for high school students (grades 9 - 12), the Summits provide opportunities to learn technical skills, participate in hands-on activities and workshops, learn from leaders in the field, and visit professional and academic sites.
Read more here.
Washington Facts: STEM Edition
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the National Policy Board for Educational Administration (NPBEA) are calling for public feedback on proposed Standards for education leaders. The public comment period will last until October 10, 2014.
Read more here.
Shelbyville Mayor Calls STEM Efforts Successful
A successful community and educational development partnership between Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Shelbyville, and Shelby County has increased science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) curriculum for local school students, and benefitted local industry by creating an intentional and collaborative bridge between local industry and education leading to clearer pathways for future success.
Read more here.
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Through the Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the STEM Education Coalition was able to sit down and discuss the importance of STEM education with educational leaders from the Republic of Chad.
out of 144 in a recent World Economic Forum report on the quality of math education (WEF 2014). Though there are many potential drivers, there is one fundamental and often hidden driver of the crisis that is often not discussed: the way mathematics is taught.
national investment in fundamental research has flat-lined since the Bush years. But there's more to the story than research spending.
Common Core exams. The consortium is asking teachers, parents and anyone with an interest in education to spend a few hours reviewing test questions and recommending proficiency levels. Panelists can pick the grade level and subject matter they'd like to review. 
seniors surveyed by CareerBuilder - the majority of whom already have a career in mind - is engineering. We looked at labor market data and job postings analytics from EMSI for all 18 engineering occupations classified by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and all eight engineering technicians occupations (which are primarily middle-skill positions). 
mathematics fields, new research shows-but they are less likely to earn degrees in those fields.
major multinational corporations, and major philanthropists announced the launch of the Global STEM Alliance, a collaboration of governments, companies, schools and NGOs devoted to increasing access to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education for students worldwide.
