The University of Kentucky will host the Expanding Your Horizons Conference for middle school girls April 29 at UK’s Jacobs Science Building in Lexington. The conference will give girls the chance to meet STEM role models and gain exposure to opportunities in STEM fields. Parents and guardians who attend will get information on important topics such as planning for college. [...]
The Kentucky State University College of Agriculture, Food Science and Sustainable Systems will host four STEM-based 4-H and youth development summer programs for middle school and high school students. There are three residential programs geared toward high school students and one for middle school students, all offering hands-on experiences and opportunities to advance their minds and extend their understanding of [...]
Too often in the past we’ve thought of career and technical education as being an alternative pathway for students who, for one reason or another, weren’t going to attend a college or a university. It is time for all of us in the Commonwealth to realize that CTE is for everyone.
Rebecca von Groote, the academic coordinator for the University of Kentucky’s horticulture, plant and soil science degree, offers a presentation on the crop, soil and horticulture science track that is an option for students who express an interest in research-based STEM careers. Von Groote’s presentation discusses the major, highlights some of the faculty’s recent and diverse research efforts and talks [...]
It can be difficult to articulate how mathematical thinking applies to the real world, but we know that igniting a passion for math can create incredible future opportunities for our students with high-income STEM job growth on the rise.
Before a thing can be made, it has to be imagined. But in order to be tomorrow’s dreamers, today’s students need to have a sound backing in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills.
Two Kentucky schools are among 25 semifinalists in the Northrop Grumman Foundation’s Fab School Labs STEM laboratory makeover contest. Nearly 200 public middle schools entered the online contest to compete for one of five grants of up to $100,000 for an “extreme makeover” for their STEM labs that will give students access to the latest technology and learning tools. Bluegrass [...]
Kim Sword Kim Sword, the STEM lab teacher at William Wells Brown Elementary School (Fayette County), has been named the 2016 Elementary School Science Teacher of the Year by the Kentucky Science Teachers Association. She was honored Nov. 11 at the KSTA annual conference in Lexington. Sword earned a bachelor’s degree from Midway College and a master’s degree [...]
A Warren County teacher is participating in a program that will help develop materials and resources for STEM classrooms.
Jefferson County's Erin Bloomer describes how she created a STEM program from scratch and what kind of possibilities STEM opens up for her students.