STEM

Podcast guests discuss STEM education and robotics competitions’ impact on reshoring, innovation, and workforce development.

Community colleges like Sierra College offer mechatronics programs that directly address the robotics industry’s labor shortage.

The Jumpstart program invites all female high school juniors and seniors with a passion for robotics and technology to apply, said MassRobotics.

Mentoring a youth robotics team for competitions such as FIRST can be a rewarding way to help build the next generation of STEM leaders.

Shaun Edwards, co-founder and CTO of Plus One Robotics, explains why the U.S. needs a national strategy that invests in STEM education.

SME recently announced that it has developed the Robotics in Manufacturing Fundamentals (RMF) credential. 

Use your iRobot vacuum cleaner and earn STEM products for local STEM programs.

[In July, 2011, I interviewed and then wrote about an inspiring high school teacher who spearheaded the founding of the Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy, was the 2010 recipient of a $500,000 MacArthur Fellow award, and is the lead character in the book The New Cool by Neal Bascomb which tells the story of his high school’s winning entry in the…

I’m always surprised when I come to Stanford. I find new companies setting up shop in the area. Ford’s new research lab wasn’t there the last time I drove by, for example. Later, when walking around Palo Alto and in a restaurant I could hear snippets of conversation that were different than most other college…