Counseling at a Crossroads, finds a huge gap between the perspectives of school counselors and the realities they deal with on a daily basis.
2011 National Survey of School Counselors
Biomedical Engineering Junior Fellow Program
STEM Colleagues at Colorado State University have created a “Junior Fellows” model to get HS students to work on their own integrated biology project.
12 Best HS for STEM Education
Mesmerized by recent visit to Wheeling HS in Illinois, I add it a list of the Best High Schools for STEM Education and a Compendium of Best Practice K-12 STEM Ed programs.
Into Robotics from Computer Science Social Network
Carnegie Mellon develops tool to enable kids to program robots in a game-like environment. Download free version of the Robot Virtual World programming software for home or school use. Test your robots in the virtual world and then use the exact same code to program real robots. http://www.cs2n.org
20 Engineers Students Should Know
Getting inspired about STEM and Engineering can come from knowing of others who shaped the world…review about these Ingenious 20
Robot Wars Prepare Kids for STEM Jobs
Local manufacturers team up with high school and college students to help build the robot competitors and gain exposure to a modern manufacturing and STEM. Read more here.
What’s a Degree Worth?
Research raises questions and offers insights after analyzing earnings based on 171 college majors.
2010 First Robotics on CNN
Video interview with First Robotics championship team winners for 2010 from CNN.