Tag Archives: STEM

Tinkering and STEM – good for girls, good for all

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Sylvia Martinez

I’m excited to be an invited panelist at the National Council of Women in IT (NCWIT) Summit on Women and IT: practices and ideas to revolutionize computing next week in New York City. The topic is Tinkering: How Might ‘Making Stuff’ … Continue reading →

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Stand for Tomorrow – free resources for eco-awareness

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

We are partnering with a new organization called Stand for Tomorrow that combines student leadership and ec0-awareness. Please take a look, pass along, and send to colleagues and friends so they can Stand for Tomorrow, today! Sylvia Do you want … Continue reading →

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Free Online MIT Course Materials for High School

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

Here’s a great resource for K-12 STEM classes – free open courses from MIT specially selected for high school. Free Online MIT Course Materials for High School | MIT OpenCourseWare. Highlights for High School features MIT OpenCourseWare materials that are … Continue reading →

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Teaching Girls to Tinker

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

Education Week: Teaching Girls to Tinker. Yet, even as girls open new gender gaps by outpacing their male peers in most subjects, men still receive roughly 77 percent of the bachelor’s degrees awarded in engineering and 85 percent of those … Continue reading →

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DARPA Promotes High-Tech Education

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

Citing studies that show a marked decline in the number of students pursuing education in math, science and engineering, the Pentagon’s Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is requesting proposals for “innovative new ideas to encourage students to major in … Continue reading →

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Quote for the day

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Sylvia Martinez

“Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a heap of stones is a house.” – Poincaré 1905

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Constructing Modern Math/Science Knowledge 2009

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Sylvia Martinez

Ever question why technology seems to have gone missing in so many math and science classrooms? What happened to the “compute” in computing? Wondering what STEM really looks like? Yes, technology, math, and science can be friends! Constructing Modern Knowledge … Continue reading →

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