Posts tagged with "STEM Education"
How the National GEM Consortium is Filling Job Gaps
By partnering with leading universities, corporations, and national laboratories, the National GEM Consortium connects students with leading organizations.
How BeSTEM! Camps Spread the Joy of STEM Education
Learn all about BeSTEM, an organization dedicated to improving STEM education and engagement, in our latest interview.
Roblox Brings Coding (and Jurassic Park) to the Classroom
Over the past two years, the community-based game/development platform Roblox has exploded. While it might sound like a confusing concept, the platform is immensely popular, attracting 64 million monthly users according to Business Insider. The program acts as both development platform and game, allowing players to boot up millions of...
Chevron Helping to Build New STEM Pipeline
As the sponsor of Sneak Peak Friday at the 2018 USA Science & Engineering Festival (USASEF), Chevron joins companies and government organizations from across the country to promote STEM education through interactive learning. In their Chevron Tech Zone, students can engage in hands-on activities that will allow them to experience...
Challenge Accepted: STEM Education and Video Game Design
“STEM” is occasionally interpreted as a reference to the stem cell research boom, but the acronym (also written as “STEAM” or “STREAM”) actually refers to the academic fields of Natural Science, Technology, Engineering, and (Applied) Mathematics, and sometimes includes Robotics as well. These areas encompass a wide variety of...The Social Impact Exchange: Lumity
During the 2016-2017 school year, more than 300 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) professionals donated over 1,700 hours to engage students with STEM education through Lumity, an organization dedicated to providing teens and young adults in underserved communities with transformational experiences, preparing them...