The Greater St. Louis Science Fair has received a commitment from semiconductor and solar technology solutions provider MEMC to support the endangered annual event over an unspecified multi-year period.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 01/24/11
Teach For America is getting a financial boost for its efforts to recruit recent college graduates to teach math and science in high-needs communities.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 01/24/11
Google revealed Tuesday that it's launching the Google Science Fair, which the company described as the "first global online science competition." Google partnered with a number of organizations to launch the competition, including CERN, the Lego Group, National Geographic, and Scientific American.
PBS TeacherLine has introduced an online course developed at Purdue University for elementary teachers specifically to strengthen their teaching strategies in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) topics.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 01/05/11
A company that provides online tutoring services has received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create an on-demand professional development system specifically to train middle school and high school math teachers.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 01/05/11
The National Action Council for Minority Engineers (NACME), a non-profit that encourages pursuit of engineering careers among minorities underrepresented in the field, has received a $520,000 grant from the ExxonMobil Foundation to support its programs, including scholarships and a strategic pre-professional education effort.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 12/15/10
Project Lead the Way (PLTW), a program working to encourage and support STEM education in classrooms nationwide, has partnered with VEX Robotics to offer the company's Robotics Design System (RDS) for students to use in pursuit of their own robotics projects.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 12/08/10
American 15-year-olds saw some improvements in the latest round of international standardized tests administered by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, headquartered in Paris, France. Science and math scores measurably improved over the previous round of OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey for American teenagers, while reading stayed statistically flat, albeit above the international average. The overall ranking for U.S. students in this year's PISA assessment rose six places since the previous assessment in 2006.
High school girls in Pittsburgh are getting a push into technology and, particularly, robotics, with the creation of an all-girl team that will compete in robotic competitions in 2011.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 12/06/10
Tabula Digita reported this week that more than 3,500 students have already signed up for its nationwide educational math gaming tournament that runs now through May 2011. Signups are still available for elementary and middle school students, who will be eligible to compete for scholarship funds, electronics, and other prizes totaling more than $60,000.