Tag: STEM
Martha Roby: Supporting STEM Education
Did you know that four billion people on the planet use a mobile phone? Over the past two years alone, 90 percent...
TechBirmingham helps kids prepare to join digitally literate workforce
Every second Sunday of each month, Luke Robinson, 15, and his dad, Jason, travel about 80 miles from Winfield to the McWane Science Center in downtown...
Alabama Power Foundation awards $150,000 grant to HudsonAlpha
The Alabama Power Foundation has awarded a $150,000 grant to the HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology to help expand gene research education to students across Alabama.
HundsonAlpha plans to grow...
Rocket Center teams up with Legislature to send Ala. students to...
The Alabama Legislature and the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville Ala. are teaming up to send middle-school students to Space Camp.
Students ages...
Martha Roby: Highlighting outstanding 2nd District STEM programs
Studies increasingly show that the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields are the drivers of our global economy and that these disciplines are...
National Governors Association selects Alabama for workforce development grant
Alabama has been selected by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices as one of six states to participate in a policy academy...
Betsy DeVos touts school choice, STEM as education priorities
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has put forth a new set of priorities for states, schools and universities competing for federal grant money.
The priorities include...
Terri Sewell announces 7th District Congressional App Challenge
Alabama U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell announced that Alabama's 7th Congressional District will be participating in the third annual Congressional App Challenge (CAC).
Student coders have until...
Outreach overdrive: University of Alabama robotics team goes the extra mile...
For the past eight years, the University of Alabama’s Astrobotics team has fared well in the various categories of NASA’s annual Robotic Mining Competition.
But while...
Daniel Sutter: Do Americans really not want my job?
Our economy benefits when immigrants do jobs Americans do not want to do. I recently discussed grapefruit picking, as an example of manual labor...
