STEM

A Thursday afternoon event at a public university in Oklahoma invited female students to visit stations around campus featuring various STEM subjects, from cybersecurity to nursing.

Academic publisher Wiley has partnered with ed-tech company Alchemie to reduce barriers for blind and low-vision students to the field of chemistry, which relies heavily on visual representations of matter.

The University of California, Santa Cruz, will use a National Science Foundation grant to redesign support and mentoring programs to better serve students from marginalized backgrounds.

A visit to the Clay Center for Arts and Sciences of West Virginia let elementary students from the Upper Kanawha Valley learn about everything from surface tension to exothermal reactions. Their responses, educators and industry officials said, prove the value of STEM education.

The tech giant added to its league of global partnerships with schools and nonprofit organizations and created new resources to show educators how Apple products can be used in the classroom.

The former Central High School building will offer nine concentrations, including topics like data analytics, semiconductor microchip technology, business entrepreneurship and construction management.

From generating research questions to analyzing data to running simulations, AI could affect every aspect of the scientific process, but experts say accuracy and sustainability should be part of the conversation.

A gift from a pair of alumni will help St. Louis University High School launch the Conrads Program for Integrated Sciences, which will expand teaching of STEM subjects and incorporate modern technologies.

Compton Unified School District has seen the proportion of students pursuing STEM careers more than double in 10 years, encouraged by preschool classes, integrations with other subjects and business partnerships.

An elementary school will receive $10,000 for science, technology, robotics/reading, engineering, arts and math, and the College of Staten Island is launching new boot camps to equip adult learners with digital skills.

It can be hard to persuade students with STEM skills and interests to go into teaching. To fill shortages, schools might share teachers or set up programs and recruit help from industry experts and universities.

Backed by $100,000 in prizes, a new challenge from the U.S. National Science Foundation calls on the next generation of innovators to build video games envisioning how future innovations might change our world.

Princeton University's Prison Teaching Initiative this summer launched a program called the Coding Foundations of Research to teach teach interns — formerly incarcerated students — the basics of computer programming.

The North Dakota Department of Transportation's STEM Outreach Solutions program will give students in grades 9-12 and hands-on introduction to transportation and civil engineering work.

A two-week, pre-college enrichment program teaches high schoolers about AI’s core applications, foundational concepts and programming tools, then challenges them to complete mentor-led projects for social good.

Chippewa Valley Technical College partnered with Junior Achievement to put on a five-day STEM camp for high schoolers, with hands-on experiences with gas and diesel vehicles, HVAC and welding in a manufacturing lab.

Innovation Center student designers, teachers and Northrop Grumman volunteers taught a week of STEM camps for middle and high school students, covering topics like cybersecurity, AI and computer science.

In response to workforce shortages and unaffordable college tuition, K-12 districts are hiring specialists to help students find alternate paths to careers in cybersecurity, manufacturing and other in-demand fields.