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…
NASA Invites Children to Learn about NASA’s Space Exploration
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will host this month’s Sunday Experiment on Nov. 15, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST. This afternoon of free activities gives elementary aged and other family members a look…
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…
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….
NASA Invites Education Reporters to Get #spacED at Johnson
NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston is inviting education-focused media to attend a two-day #spacED event on Sept. 15 and 16. The event will highlight the International Space Station and the one-year mission with astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail…
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…
Top STEM Students Design Space Capsules
More than 200 middle-school students from Sarasota County finished their school year by tackling “real-world” business challenges like designing marketable Tervis drinkware and developing a space capsule prototype for human spaceflight. The activities were part of the 2015 STEMsmart Middle…
Raytheon to Help Children of Military Families
A new $5 million multi-year commitment from technology company Raytheon to Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) will provide enhanced technology centers and support for after-school science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programming to children of military families. Working…
























