Kelly Kerwin, 3-8 STEM Coach in the Pawtucket School Department has been named the 2019 Rhode Island STEAM Education Leader. The award recognizes a teacher who has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to STEAM – Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts + design,…
Governor Gina M. Raimondo issued a proclamation declaring March as ‘STEAM Month’ in Rhode Island. STEAM Month highlights the work Rhode Island is currently doing to support STEAM education and economic development. On Tuesday, March 5 and Wednesday, March 6, members…
The Rhode Island STEAM Center @ Rhode Island College, in collaboration with the Office of Governor Gina Raimondo, the Rhode Island Department of Education, and Vertikal6, will recognize an outstanding educator with the 2019 Rhode Island STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering,…
AET Labs, Stratasys & GrabCAD are pleased to present the 5th annual New England Extreme Redesign 3D Printing Challenge. The 2019 “People’s Choice” semi-final event honors students from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont & Connecticut who are entering…
Making Culture, a report released by the ExCITe (Expressive and Creative Interaction Technologies) Center at Drexel University is the first in-depth examination of K-12 education makerspaces nationwide. Making Culture is the product of a year-long investigation visiting 30 K-12 education makerspaces…
ACT is a mission-driven, nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people achieve education and workplace success. Headquartered in Iowa City, Iowa, ACT is a leader in college and career readiness, providing high-quality assessments grounded in nearly 60 years of research. ACT’s…
Science Rising is a nationwide mobilization effort taking place throughout 2018 in the run-up to the midterm elections. It is not a one-day march—it is a series of local activities, events, and actions organized by many different groups. Many activities are…
The Center for Childhood Creativity at the Bay Area Discovery Museum has released the report, The Roots of STEM Success: Changing Early Learning Experiences to Build Lifelong Thinking Skills, which finds that children are capable of remarkable problem solving from the…
STEM Starts Early: Grounding Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Education in Early Childhood,” published by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and New America and supported by a National Science Foundation grant reports that children who engage in scientific…
Alice Sheppard, a celebrated disabilities dancer and choreographer recently demonstrated the connection between physics and engineering, and dance as she performed on a prototype ramp designed and built by students at Olin College of Engineering. The idea for the ramp…
