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NASA Awards Grants for STEM Education Programs

NASA Awards Grants for STEM Education Programs

NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has selected two minority serving institutions for cooperative agreement awards totaling approximately $1 million to help strengthen science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) curricula at the schools. Lawson State Community College in Birmingham, Alabama, and New York City College of Technology in…
Honeywell and NASA Bring STEM Education to Middle Schools

Honeywell and NASA Bring STEM Education to Middle Schools

Honeywell and NASA will support their science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education program with the hip-hop educational experience FMA Live! Forces in Motion. The program made its return to the West Coast this month with plans to visit six states and perform at 40 public, private and military-connected middle…
NASA to Boost STEM Education in the Classroom

NASA to Boost STEM Education in the Classroom

Texas Instruments and NASA are partnering to show students how science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) make feats like space exploration possible with mISSion imaginaTIon. The partnership and its programs aim to spur the imaginations of the next generation of scientists, engineers, explorers and innovators who are in today’s math…
NASA Awards Grants to Expand STEM Education

NASA Awards Grants to Expand STEM Education

NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has selected nine universities for cooperative agreement awards totaling $3.6 million to create and operate a NASA MUREP Aerospace Academy. The universities will receive as much as $160,000 per year for two years and up to $100,000 for a third year. The…
Toyota Offers Scholarships to Promote STEM Education

Toyota Offers Scholarships to Promote STEM Education

Fueling the future by ensuring that students get their best opportunity to succeed, leading automaker Toyota is partnering with Rainbow PUSH Excel to provide $75,000 scholarships to 10 deserving engineering and business college students through the Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. Fellows Scholarships. As an encouragement for all students to put…
Minority Male Maker Program Created for STEM Education

Minority Male Maker Program Created for STEM Education

Minority Male Maker is a two-year program created by Verizon and launched this month at Kentucky State University with a $400,000 Verizon Foundation grant. The program seeks to empower a new generation of minority men by giving them lifelong technology and entrepreneurship skills to build future innovations and create brighter…
NEF CyberLearning to Invest $10M for STEM Education

NEF CyberLearning to Invest $10M for STEM Education

National Education Foundation (NEF), a national non-profit organization in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education, announced plans to invest $10 million to increase the number of school districts with access to STEM education programs. In order to qualify for the matching grant, a school district must have 35% or…