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Can Private Funds Boost STEM?
Chicago Public Schools is the latest test lab for philanthropists hoping to improve public education. English vacuum cleaner inventor James Dyson announced he was investing $500,000 to bring an...
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States Push STEM Partnerships
After years of discussing the need to improve STEM education, states are starting to seize their Sputnik moment. Some are forging novel connections between colleges and local school systems. Others are...
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Grass-roots Advocacy? Ask Bill Gates
The foundation launched by Microsoft founder Bill Gates is spending millions of dollars to enlist educators and experts in promoting sweeping changes to public education. Teachers hired by Gates-funded...
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Girls Sweep Google Global Science Fair
Teachers struggling to get girls jazzed about STEM take heart. Of 10,000 students who competed in Google's inaugural global science fair, three young women soared to the top, including Texas high...
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Industry, Orgs. Champion Informal Education
In a Sept. 12 Capitol Hill bid for increased federal funding, a panel of representatives from industry and non-profits mapped out their goals for the future of afterschool, informal education in the...
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Resources: Dyson Educational Materials
The James Dyson Foundation offers several educational resources online and through loans to teachers. Among them, the Engineering Box, available to Chicago-area schools, is designed to teach reverse...
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Contest: Shell Eco-marathon
Shell Eco-marathon is a global challenge that motivates students to drive farther than their peers on one gallon of fuel. Student teams participate in one or both of the Prototype and UrbanConcept...
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Resource: Engineering Scholarships
Scholarships that target students interested in engineering provide an excellent way to help pay for the rising costs of higher education. Since engineering scholarships are plentiful and come from a...
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Resource: Maker Camp 2012
Thirty days, 30 "awesome projects," six field trips. Welcome to Maker Camp, a virtual DIY camp for teens 13 years of age and up sponsored by Make magazine. Free and open to all on Google+, the camp...
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2013 ExxonMobil Math & Science Scholarships
The 2013 ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Math and Science Scholarships are available to graduating high school seniors in urban districts represented by the Council of the Great City Schools. Four $5,000...
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