
Measuring STEM awareness
The Iowa STEM effort is all about improving student interest and achievement, as well as helping connect those passions to STEM careers in Iowa, in partnership with higher education, PreK-12 schools, business and industry, nonprofits, governmental agencies and more.
Read More →Five ways Iowa’s STEM Scale-Up Program works
Drop in to just about any school across Iowa this week and somebody’s bringing a world-class STEM experience to students through the five-year-old STEM Scale-Up Program initiative of the Governor’s STEM Advisory Council.
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Local workplaces seeking STEM teacher expertise
If you are a teacher, you have probably wondered how your mathematics or science topics are used behind the walls of the manufacturing plant across town, or what kinds of roof-beam geometry and cement wall chemistry the construction crew uses to build that bridge up north or those new lofts downt
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MVP for Iowa STEM: Cindy Dietz and Rockwell Collins
With the help of January’s MVP for Iowa STEM, Rockwell Collins, an aerospace engineering company in Cedar Rapids, Cindy Dietz, its director of external relations, has used her expertise to send Iowa STEM soaring to new heights.
Read More →Iowa STEM amped up on Java and other computer science tools
Generation Z is type-cast as technology native—born with iPads in their cribs, raised with smartphones clutched in their grip, educated on digital global blackboards and bathed in WiFi waves connecting their cars, TVs and toasters. They’re accomplished consumers of technology.
Read More →Putting STEM first in the FIRST Robotics Competition
You might think it takes an Einstein-like mind to build a robot from scratch—or at least some years studying the craft.
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Thousands learn to program through Code Iowa
The room is eerily quiet. Students’ eyes are glued to their computers, geared up with headphones and a mouse to take on the challenge. Suddenly, a young girl’s hands go up in the air as she yells, “Yes! I did it!”
That’s the “Hour of Code.”
Read More →MVP for Iowa STEM: Steve Triplett
Of 32 U.S. states where more than half of their graduates take the ACT, Iowa has the highest percentage of students meeting the STEM benchmark.
Read More →Iowa D.N.R. and U.S. D.o.L. invest in Iowa STEM
Two Iowa STEM programs just got a major boost thanks to grants totaling $250,000.
Read More →“Making STEM Connections” in and out of classrooms
STEM learning often takes place beyond school classrooms. Other outstanding venues where kids learn STEM include museums, camping trips with their scout troop, at the zoo or on a 4-H outing and certainly among the book stacks at libraries.
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