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Milliman announces $750,000 gift to The Actuarial Foundation’s Math Motivators program

By / January 27, 2021 / Diversity in STEM, Financial, Foundations, Industry, K-12 Education, Low-Income Students, Volunteering

In February of 2019, global consulting and actuarial firm Milliman Inc. announced that it had donated a three-year, $750,000 gift to support The Actuarial Foundation‘s Math Motivators tutoring program, raised entirely by donations from employees and alumni through the Milliman Giving Fund. The Actuarial Foundation’s Math Motivator program provides free math tutoring to high students who either do …

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Centering science education around investigation and design: A Q&A with National Academies & Amgen Foundation

By / January 27, 2021 / Foundations, K-12 Education, Non-Profits, Publishing in STEM, Research and Reports in STEM, Science, STEM Teaching

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]In November of 2018, the National Academies of Sciences Engineering & Medicine released a new report that found centering science instruction around investigation and design can improve learning in middle and high schools and help students make sense of phenomena in the world around them. The study, sponsored by the Amgen …

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Bosch expands partnership with FIRST® to help bridge STEM gap, increase community engagement

By / January 27, 2021 / Foundations, Industry, K-12 Education, Non-Profits, Out-Of-School STEM Programs

FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) recently announced that Bosch has become a FIRST Strategic Partner. FIRST is a global K-12 not-for-profit organization founded by inventor Dean Kamen to inspire young people’s interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Bosch has been involved with FIRST since 2000, supporting robotics teams with sponsorships, mentor programs and equipment assistance …

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The Dassault Systèmes U.S. Foundation Expands Grant to Base 11 Autonomous Systems Engineering Academy

By / January 27, 2021 / Foundations, Higher Education, Industry, Tech

This is a press release from Dassault Systèmes & Base 11 Innovative STEM curriculum to be adapted as a full semester course during Academic Year 2018/19 COSTA MESA, Calif. & WALTHAM, Mass. — (Business Wire) | Base 11 and the Dassault Systèmes U.S. Foundation have announced the expansion of the workforce development initiative aimed at …

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Intel Foundation: Together We Can Inspire Middle School Girls to become Future Technology Leaders and Innovators

By / January 27, 2021 / Computer Science, Diversity in STEM, Foundations, K-12 Education, Women in STEM

The Intel Foundation seeks non-profit partners to broaden the participation of US middle-school girls in Technology, Engineering and Computer Science (TEC) to help close the technology equity and gender gaps.  Learn more at https://foundation.intel.com/rfp. U.S. Middle School girls represent a wealth of unlimited potential for cultivating our future technology creators, innovators and leaders.  Yet, a vast …

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Siobhan Mullen (CEO, SAS Games, Inc.): TiViTz Teacher-to-Teacher Challenge Promotes STEM Interest, Connects Classrooms

By / January 27, 2021 / EdTech, Foundations, Gaming, K-12 Education, Non-Profits, STEM Competitions

Our popular children’s math and strategy game, TiViTz, has been successfully used by educators in communities around the country as a tool to reinforce math and critical thinking concepts. In some school districts, studies suggest incorporating TiViTz as an in-class resource increases student math test scores by as many as two letter grades. These formal …

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Thirty-Five New Jersey Teachers Win $5,000 Science Scholarships from Bayer USA Foundation and the Thompson Family Foundation

By / January 27, 2021 / Foundations, K-12 Education, New Jersey

The New Jersey Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) today announced the results from a scholarship competition that provided 35 New Jersey teachers with funding to earn their endorsements in physics or chemistry through CTL. A generous donation from the Bayer USA Foundation enabled CTL to provide 15 scholarships of $5,000 each to New Jersey teachers …

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