Carnegie Mellon University: Carnegie Mellon, Rales Foundation Announce Groundbreaking Initiative To Broaden Access to STEM Education

Carnegie Mellon University: Carnegie Mellon, Rales Foundation Announce Groundbreaking Initiative To Broaden Access to STEM Education. “Carnegie Mellon University and the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation today announced a transformative new initiative to help address the Missing Millions — individuals whose personal circumstances have presented a significant obstacle to careers in the science, technology, engineering and math fields (STEM).”

University of Southern California: The USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the National Academy of Engineering Launch New Social Media News Series

University of Southern California: The USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the National Academy of Engineering Launch New Social Media News Series. “The USC Viterbi School of Engineering (USC Viterbi) and the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) are launching ‘The Circuit,’ a weekly social-forward news network dedicated to promoting engineering to the public.”

Hackaday: Wearable Skobots Full Of Steam And Vanishing Indigenous Languages

Hackaday: Wearable Skobots Full Of Steam And Vanishing Indigenous Languages. “[Danielle Boyer] is Ojibwe: Sault Ste Marie Tribe and passionate about preserving vanishing indigenous languages. She’s invented a shoulder-worn talking companion, called a SkoBot, to teach STEAM to children through building robots programmed with indigenous language lessons and founded the STEAM Connection to give them away.”

Newswise: Making science more accessible to people with disabilities

Newswise: Making science more accessible to people with disabilities. “The pandemic prompted workplace changes that proved beneficial to people with disabilities in science, technology, engineering, math and medicine (STEMM), but there’s fear that these accommodations will be rolled back. With International Day of Persons with Disabilities taking place on Dec. 3, a research team including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York is calling for ways to make work in STEMM more accessible.”