Check out options to help level the science and tech playing field —Reporting by Janelle Rucker When it comes to exposing youth to science...
How do we propel one million students through the STEM pipeline and into the over eight million STEM jobs that will be available by 2018?
American youth appear less interested in pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and math fields compared to students of other countries ...
As the burgeoning tech industry continues to do its part to create jobs in a struggling U.S. economy, a major portion of the population has been mostly left out of the tech boom. Women are currently a noted minority in the industry -- an issue that must be addressed immediately.
Far too often, we simply don't capture students' imagination and help them connect what they do in the classroom with the world around them. To use a non-science metaphor, we give students nouns in the classroom when they're looking for verbs.
For college freshmen and sophomores, August means plenty of shopping for dorm room decor and overpriced textbooks. Juniors, however, have a much more ...
I strongly believe that at the heart of many required skills for these and other 21st century jobs is digital literacy, digital design, computational problem solving, and coding.
Did you have a special chemistry teacher who helped light a spark that led to a career in science? Or a baseball coach who said your knack for calculating batting averages could be an asset in math class? If so, you're one of the lucky few.
If game developers are going to be able to deliver the products that will "speak" to their core market, it behooves them to add more women to their employee ranks.
The 317th Recruiting Squadron recently started a program to inspire innovation and creativity in science, technology, engineering, and math programs. They challenged students in D.C., Virginia, and Maryland schools with a simple question: Why are STEM careers important to our nation?
A liberal arts education allows us to learn to think for ourselves. Armed with knowledge and experience in a variety of social contexts, we don't become mere receptacles of ideas.
