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World Bank Offers $50 Million to Improve Education System in India

World Bank Offers $50 Million to Improve Education System in India

The Government of India and the World Bank signed a US$ 50 million credit Wednesday for the Nai Manzil: Education and Skills Training for Minorities Project. The project aims to help young people from minority communities complete their education and gain from market-driven training programs with the aim of improving…
NASA Awards Grants to Expand STEM Education

NASA Awards Grants to Expand STEM Education

NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has selected nine universities for cooperative agreement awards totaling $3.6 million to create and operate a NASA MUREP Aerospace Academy. The universities will receive as much as $160,000 per year for two years and up to $100,000 for a third year. The…
Toyota Offers Scholarships to Promote STEM Education

Toyota Offers Scholarships to Promote STEM Education

Fueling the future by ensuring that students get their best opportunity to succeed, leading automaker Toyota is partnering with Rainbow PUSH Excel to provide $75,000 scholarships to 10 deserving engineering and business college students through the Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. Fellows Scholarships. As an encouragement for all students to put…
Minority Male Maker Program Created for STEM Education

Minority Male Maker Program Created for STEM Education

Minority Male Maker is a two-year program created by Verizon and launched this month at Kentucky State University with a $400,000 Verizon Foundation grant. The program seeks to empower a new generation of minority men by giving them lifelong technology and entrepreneurship skills to build future innovations and create brighter…
Top STEM Students Design Space Capsules

Top STEM Students Design Space Capsules

More than 200 middle-school students from Sarasota County finished their school year by tackling "real-world" business challenges like designing marketable Tervis drinkware and developing a space capsule prototype for human spaceflight. The activities were part of the 2015 STEMsmart Middle School Summit, an event sponsored by Gulf Coast Community Foundation…
NEF CyberLearning to Invest $10M for STEM Education

NEF CyberLearning to Invest $10M for STEM Education

National Education Foundation (NEF), a national non-profit organization in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education, announced plans to invest $10 million to increase the number of school districts with access to STEM education programs. In order to qualify for the matching grant, a school district must have 35% or…
Students Win Top Prizes at STEM Competition

Students Win Top Prizes at STEM Competition

Three students are named National Finalists in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology, a research competition for high school students – covering science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Jay Zussman of Great Neck, N.Y. earned the top honors and a $3,000 individual scholarship for research on improving reproductive…