Summer camps in cybersecurity have proliferated all across the country in short order. Camps offer varied learning opportunities for students of all kinds, whether going to college or straight into the workforce. And many camps take aim at a startling gender gap in the field, offering girls-only environments for a different kind of learning experience.
Read MoreSTEM Seems Strong in the New Congress
Our read on support for STEM education in the 116th Congress is guardedly optimistic. The turnover in control from Republicans to Democrats should have little impact on the generally bipartisan favor the field has enjoyed. What comes out of the White House, on the other hand, can scramble anything. Watch the budget request for clues.
Read More6 Ways to Engineer Holiday Fun at Home
These at-home holiday engineering activities are fun for adults and kids alike. And from Rudolph races to sleighs for Santa to every kind of tabletop tree, they’re easy and quick to do.
Read MoreTeaching STEM with No Textbooks: Why NGSS Makes It So Tempting
A dearth of suitably aligned learning materials makes teaching engineering and science under NGSS a great opportunity to go textbook-free. Here’s why to do it and how to get started.
Read MoreOur Cybersecurity Gift List Makes Hacking a Part of Holiday Cheer
When can lying, cheating, and bluffing add to holiday cheer? When you give the gift of cybersecurity-related fun and games. Our gift list this year runs from conniving to Kanoodle, with stops in between for anyone with a taste for coding, cats, or cryptography!
Read MoreNot Just for Tech-Heads: How to Swell the Ranks of the Cybersecurity Workforce
Enlarging the future cybersecurity workforce will require new ways of talking about the field to more diverse groups of students. The first step is showing how much more than just technical knowledge gets rewarded in the field.
Read MoreShoring Up the Foundation of STEM Education
One of the slenderest reeds in the STEM education field is the capacity of elementary educators to prepare students for STEM success. No fault of theirs, to be sure – elementary educators are always being asked to do more and more. Here are some tips and resources for helping early learners start a rewarding, enriching STEM journey.
Read MoreHow to Show Students that Cybersecurity Can Work for Them
The Start Engineering Cybersecurity Student Workbook can open up possibilities and opportunities in the field for students with all kinds of interests and backgrounds. And to meet our cybersecurity needs, we need students from every related field to make their own, unique contributions. For the classroom, afterschool, career night, or at home, this Workbook will point students to the cybersecurity career that’s right for them.
Read MoreIn Cybersecurity, Change Describes Education and Threats Alike
Cybersecurity education is the long-term solution to workforce needs, and exciting things are happening in the field. Find out how gamification, competitions, and integration with other K-12 subjects can open the field up to new populations of students who might not think they belong.
Read MoreSummer Mixed the Future of STEM with Blasts from the Past
Snoopy and friends made a long-awaited return to their old NASA home this summer, among other interesting developments in STEM education, some retro and others very now, indeed.
Read MoreAn Engineering Book List to Stop the Summer Slide
This list of engineering books for elementary school kids is sure to divert, entertain, and even – shh – educate. Put a stop to the summer slide and introduce kids to a potentially rewarding course of future study and work at the same time!
Read MoreThe Lively Twitter World of K-12 Engineering
Checking in on Twitter with the K-12 engineering crowd is a great way to stay current and connected. Here are some tips on people to follow, tweets to tout, and how to get the most out of 240 characters, however bewildering they get to be.
Read MoreMany Called, Few Ready: the Cybersecurity Workforce
The rapidly growing cybersecurity workforce is perpetually a work in progress. Changing threats plus still-limited training resources make for a difficult hiring environment. But the bots, malware, phishing scams, and viruses keep coming! Find out how to get students and teachers alike started on understanding cybersecurity education and career pathways.
Read MoreSTEM Education: Academic Program or Workforce Initiative? Part 2
Are STEM workforce initiatives really the solution to making students career-ready? All the ways to get it wrong should give us pause. Read more to see how to get it right.
Read MoreSTEM Education: Academic Program or Workforce Initiative? Part 1
Is STEM education an academic endeavor or a workforce development enterprise? Are the two approaches impossibly conflicted? Or is there a middle ground that serves both purposes? Examining through the filter of assessment might help plot the way to an answer.
Read MoreHelping Tomorrow’s Workforce through Tough Times
Automation, artificial intelligence, and innovation in general promise to shape the “workforce of tomorrow” in unpredictable ways. It won’t necessarily be pretty, but STEM Solutions attendees saw both reasons for optimism and opportunities ahead for rewarding, plentiful work.
Read MoreGet to Know Cybersecurity Education
First of its kind in print, our Cybersecurity Career Guide shows middle and high school students what jobs in the field are really like and how to find their way into them. One of the fastest-growing, most important fields in the country, cybersecurity offers opportunities for students of all backgrounds and interests.
Read MoreEngineering a Start-Up to Train Teachers
Engineering is spreading through schools in all parts of the country. The main obstacle remains the lack of teachers with adequate training and support. We have launched a new non-profit, Engineers On Deck, to help solve this problem. And we are psyched.
Read MoreHow Engineering Found Daylight in K-12
Engineering is growing into a larger part of STEM education thinking and practice. But it’s starting far behind science, technology, and math. We explore what’s keeping the vision of K-12 engineering from becoming a reality.
Read MoreEngineering American History through Crisis and Growth
For over 50 years, K-12 education has been seen as the foundation of America’s ability to respond to threats in a changing world. It has also been in a constant state of apparent crisis. However, in crisis or not, will the rise of STEM education turn out to be a constructive response?
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