The Siemens Foundation has opened its annual Competition in Math, Science & Technology. This year's program will offer scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $100,000.
Discovery Communications is formalizing its programs related to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) under an umbrella initiative called "Connect the Dots," intended to help young people make the link between STEM and their everyday lives.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/06/13
The Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision program has named the winners of its 21st annual contest, which encourages students from kindergarten through high school to imagine and propose inventions that could exist within the next 20 years.
In an effort to include more science, technology, engineering, and mathematics material into common core curriculum, all Arizona primary and secondary schools now have access to geographic information systems software.
Exo Labs has launched the Focus Microscope Camera to link a classroom microscope to an iPad.
Summer training program aims to help educators integrate data-collection technology into their science curriculum.
The Obama Administration and a group of corporate and non-profit organizations have banded together to promote the idea of bringing professionals in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) into contact with students to encourage young people to pursue careers in STEM.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/23/13
The International Society for Technology in Education, the New Media Consortium, and HP have created a free, online professional development initiative designed to help educators around the world teach STEMx subjects.
Maryland's Prince George's County Public Schools is expanding its relationship with global security and aerospace company Lockheed Martin to tackle the STEM gap among its high school students.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/18/13
Adapteva has completed its first Parallella parallel-processing board designed for Linux supercomputing.