The Kentucky State University College of Agriculture, Food Science and Sustainable Systems will host four STEM-based 4-H and youth development summer programs for middle and high school students. There are three residential programs geared toward high school students and one for middle school students, all offering hands-on experiences and opportunities to advance their minds and extend their understanding of agriculture [...]
Prize-winning chemist Robert Grubbs says teachers played a key role in shaping his love of science.
Students and their teachers learned about the possibilities for girls who are interested in mathematics with activities at the High School Mathematics Day for Women.
The Air & Space Academy curriculum allows schools to work with local airports to offer students a chance to work toward a number of aviation and aerospace careers.
Owensboro Independent and Daviess County schools worked together to create a project-based learning centered school.
Alltech will host STEMposium 2015 on Sept. 26 at the Locust Trace AgriScience Center in Lexington. The event features breakout sessions with hands-on professional development opportunities for K-12 science teachers. The event allows teachers to learn how to incorporate engineering practices into all sciences, discover how Design Thinking can generate interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and engage [...]
Educators from 22 eastern Kentucky school districts have kicked off an education initiative aimed at building a STEM-based (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) by creating new opportunities for teachers through National Board Certification. They were joined by Gov. Steve Beshear and Rep. Hal Rogers, co-chairmen of SOAR – Shaping Our Appalachian Region, in a ceremony July 20 at Clay County [...]
The Center for Learning with Nature is offering a free online professional development workshop this summer for middle school and high school STEM teachers. The training will help teachers learn to use the new “Engineering Inspired by Nature” curriculum, which applies ideas from the natural world to human technologies. It will be held for five consecutive days in June or [...]
An after school bicycle club is sparking Holmes Middle School students’ interest in science, technology, engineering and math.
Students in Anderson County Middle School's STEM class are finding solutions for problems that might affect the world they live in years from now as part of an innovative project.