Smith’s EXXON Car Featured at Kickoff Conference
Brainstorm Begins: Trying to appeal to the educators. “Think STEM doesn’t matter? Every STEM principle is used in order to make this race car go 150 miles per hour and win 27 times on the way to winning the Arizona State Championship. Drivers who have driven this car have gone on to the Indy 500. […]
A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO ARIZONA’S PUBLIC LEADERS THAT MAKE AZ SCITECH SO GREAT
By: Michele Peters, writer, Arizona SciTech Festival The Arizona SciTech Festival now enters its sixth season with over 400,000 people participating last year throughout Arizona including students, teachers, parents, colleges/universities and corporations. This unprecedented growth and success would not possible without the support of elected community leaders who used their positions to further engage and […]
XQ Phoenix Rising Competes for $10 Million Prize
XQ America: The Super School Project, a nationwide movement to “rethink and reimagine high school”, spearheaded by Russlyn Ali, Chief Executive Officer of XQ Institute, and Laurene Powell Jobs, president of Emerson Collective (and widow of Steve Jobs), is underway! (See the XQ Super School Project at www.xqsuperschool.org). Building on the notions of bold and […]
An outreach regarding the Great Arizona Code Challenge
Calling all teachers, educators, parents, community members, and more! Get ready for The Great AZ Code Challenge 2.0 that will be held on July 22-23 this year. It is an MIT Enterprise Forum sponsored local event. This inaugural event last July was the second biggest hackathon in AZ history, with 120 kids, and well over 400 people at the closing […]
STEM in Focus at The White House Summit on The United State of Women
Guest Author: Loretta H. Cheeks, written June 22, 2017 On June 14-15, 2016, the Honorable Megan J. Smith, U.S. Chief Technology Officer, led the way to elevate awareness about STEM careers and resources made available to communities across our nation. At the first ever Summit on The United State of Women, over 5000 mostly women convened […]
PCC STEM Innovation Challenge Mentorship: Summer & Fall 2016
The Goal: Identify and prototype relevant, real-world solutions that build education and career pathways in STEM that support innovation, entrepreneurial learning and collaboration. The Challenge: The STEM workforce in Arizona is crucial to our innovation capacity and global competitiveness. Yet, in Pima County the education to employment pipeline (in most STEM industries) is underdeveloped and […]
Attention All Kid Scientists: Let Your Voice Be Heard by President Obama!
If you could personally share with the President any idea on how to use science and technology to make our country better, what would you recommend? While it may be true that voting age in the United States happens at 18, President Obama now wants to hear from YOU. He is giving any and every […]
FACT SHEET: At White House Science Fair, President Obama Calls on this Generation of Students to Tackle the Grand Challenges of Our Time
WASHINGTON, DC – On April 13th, President Obama hosted the sixth and final White House Science Fair of his Administration and celebrate the student competitors and winners from a broad range of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) competitions. The event was the largest White House Science Fair to date, with more than 130 students from […]
Free “Toddler Explorer” Program at Ironwood Library Starting May 3rd
Inspire Kids Montessori to host fun, hands-on, classes each Tuesday from 10:30 – 11 am Phoenix, AZ. (April 7, 2016). Inspire Kids Montessori is hosting a free “Toddler Explorer” program for ages 12 – 36 months on Tuesdays in May, from 10:30 to 11:00 am, at Ironwood Public Library located at 4333 E. Chandler […]
Girls Connect with the Earth
Guest Author: Lisa Herrmann, Co-Chair Million Women Mentors-Arizona Think of Earth Day as a time to get up close and personal with earth – as in soil and dirt! A report from the National Wildlife Federation, “The Dirt on Dirt: How Getting Dirty Outdoors Benefits Kids” provides some compelling data on how playing in the […]
