Delta Airlines and several school districts across Northern Kentucky have been working together to develop a STEM partnership that will benefit teachers, students, Delta employees and the local economy.
School district has created a regional hub where students can become innovators, inventors and creators.
Fab School Labs, an online contest in which five schools can win an “extreme makeover” for their science, math, engineering or technology laboratories, is open to public middle schools. The contest is designed to encourage students’ interest in STEM education by creating classrooms and labs that can inspire them. Winning schools will receive grants of up to $100,000 from the [...]
Students showed off their projects to improve the environment and conserve energy at the Youth Summit and Awards Luncheon in Frankfort.
HipScience, an embedded sensor company, is making its Mantis STEM kits with sensor and associated curriculum available to at least 75 U.S. schools in 2016 through its STEM Advantage Program as part of the White House Science Fair kickoff and its STEM for All initiative. Each kit will include one Mantis sensor, along with curriculum specific to the sensor's purpose. [...]
Schools have been working on forming partnerships with industries for a long time now, but figuring out how to make those relationships highly effective may provide big benefits for students.
The first-of-its-kind in Kentucky high school aims to prepare students for high-demand jobs.
Freshman girls in Kenton County who might have taken a back seat in male-dominated engineering classes are thriving in a new career academy designed just for them.
The American Association of University Women Bluegrass Central Branch and Kentucky State University will host an AAUW National Tech Savvy program May 21 on the KSU campus in Frankfort. The daylong program for girls in grades 6-9 is designed to show girls how studying in STEM fields can lead to careers. Female professionals in STEM fields will lead workshops and [...]
The U.S. Patent and Trademark office will hold its National Summer Teacher Institute on Innovation, STEM and Intellectual Property July 17-22 at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich. The program for K-12 educators combines training tools, practices and project-based learning models to help l teachers incorporate the concepts of making, inventing and innovation into classroom instruction. The central focus [...]