“It was like a war. People were disappearing and you didn’t know where they went.” That may sound like hyperbole to some, but for John Pavey, the CTO of The Huffington Post, Hurricane Sandy brought back memories of 9/11. Pavey, who is based in Princeton, N.J., pulled an all-nighter during the storm on Monday night as the AOL news site suffered an unprecedented outage. By Tuesday morning, HuffPo was back up and running even though the ISP responsible — DataGram — wasn’t functioning.
NYC Tech Companies Struggle to Rebound After Hurricane Sandy
November 4th, 2012 by Brad Graham
Posted in: Hurricane Sandy, STEM, Tech
Mexico Is A Top Producer Of Engineers, But Where Are The Jobs?
October 30th, 2012 by Brad Graham
In an aggressive bid to move beyond low-wage factory jobs and toward an entrepreneurial economy, Mexico is producing graduates in engineering and technology at rates that challenge its international rivals, including its No. 1 trade partner, the United States.
NASA Selects Early Stage Innovation Proposals From 10 Universities
October 26th, 2012 by Brad Graham
NASA has selected 10 university-led proposals for study of innovative, early-stage space technologies designed to improve shielding from space radiation, spacecraft thermal management and optical systems. The 1-year grants are worth approximately $250,000 each, with an additional year of research possible.
Posted in: NASA, STEM, Universities
Watch A Short Film On The Future Of Technology & Education
October 23rd, 2012 by Brad Graham
We’re still teaching our kids using a 20th-century paradigm, but many visionaries–like the ones in this video–have plans to take our advances in computing and technology and use them to explode the idea of what education can be.
Posted in: Education, Learning, STEM, Technology
A ‘Cool’ Role Model for Women in Science
October 22nd, 2012 by Brad Graham
As a child, Deborah Jin remembers going to company holiday parties where most of the attendees were men and they assumed she must be there because of her physicist father. But they were mistaken. She was there because of her physicist mother.
Tech High School Goal Isn’t to Finish in 4 Years
October 22nd, 2012 by Rich Feller
By 2017, the first wave of students of P-Tech — Pathways in Technology Early College High School — is expected to emerge with associate’s degrees in applied science in computer information systems or electromechanical engineering technology, following a course of studies developed in consultation with I.B.M. “I mean, in 10th grade, doing college work?” said Monesia McKnight, 15, as she sat in an introduction to computer systems course taught by a college professor. “How great is that?”
Posted in: Associates Degree, High School, STEM
Want A Job That Pays? Major In Engineering
October 19th, 2012 by Brad Graham
The decision you make in college in choosing your major could end up costing you millions of dollars over your lifetime. CNN has new stats on the degrees that earn the most and the least. Want to make $3.5 million? Major in engineering. That’s how much those who graduate with an engineering degree can expect to earn over a 40-year career, according to new Census Bureau data.
Posted in: Career, college majors, Engineering, STEM
NBA Great Named California After-School STEM Ambassador
October 16th, 2012 by Brad Graham
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the National Basketball Association’s all-time leading scorer, will be promoting the importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects over the next year as California’s After-School STEM Ambassador, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced Monday.
