Deseret News – In his 2009 inaugural address, Gov. Gary R. Herbert challenged Utah to create unprecedented partnerships that would lead to unlimited possibilities for the state. Utahns have responded to that challenge in impressive fashion. Indeed, one of Utah’s secrets to success is the willingness of companies and nonprofits to partner with government to solve problems and create a …
News ReleaseFor Immediate Release Contact:Kaitlin Felsted, Marketing Communications SpecialistSTEM Action Center801-673-7601kfelsted@utah.gov SALT LAKE CITY (Sept. 5, 2017)—The Utah STEM Action Center today announced the Utah K-16 Computing Initiative, which addresses the need for more high-tech, high-wage opportunities in rural Utah. The K-16 Computing Initiative supports schools and districts in building computing programs. It will especially target rural communities, where computing skills …
News ReleaseFor Immediate Release Contact: Kaitlin Felsted, Marketing Communications SpecialistSTEM Action Center801-673-7601kfelsted@utah.gov SALT LAKE CITY (Aug. 16, 2017)— Gov. Gary R. Herbert and STEM industry leaders unveiled the Utah STEM Bus (USB) at a ribbon-cutting ceremony today at the State Capitol. Last year, the Utah STEM Action Center received a $1.5 million grant from Andeavor (formerly Tesoro) to transform a donated Utah …
KUTV – STEM education is now on wheels as Utah’s first STEM bus takes the show on the road. The STEM bus is a 1997 UTA bus that used to take people around town. UTA retired the bus. It sat for a little bit before it was donated to become a mobile classroom. The bus has been completely gutted and …
PRESS RELEASEFor immediate release 801.245.9552Contact@stemmx.comwww.stemmx.com Industry Sponsored Mobile App Now Available to Connect Teachers with Volunteers Teachers and Industry Volunteers Encouraged to Create Profiles and Listings in New STEM Mentor Exchange to Help Prepare Students for Future Jobs Salt Lake City, UT – June 29, 2017 – The STEM Partners Foundation today announced the release of the STEM Mentor Exchange (STEM …
KSL — Almost 700 educators, administrators and industry officials gathered at the Utah Valley Convention Center for the third annual STEM Best Practices Conference. Dina Wise, a principal at Bruin Point Elementary, traveled from Carbon County to attend. “I’m the administrator at a rural school. My student population is 110 with an 80 percent poverty rate,” Wise said. Wise brought three …
Amanda Hamilton’s fourth, fifth and sixth-grade students at West Bountiful Elementary were tasked with programming a robot to navigate through a maze on the floor without touching any lines or going out of bounds. In groups of two, they ran back and forth huddling over their Chromebooks to write code and testing how their robots performed in the maze. “Before …
Nothing is quite as nerve-wracking as boarding a small airplane with a 12-year-old girl as your pilot. But nothing builds a young girl’s confidence in quite the same way as successfully flying a Diamond DA40 airplane. Over a six-week period, a group of girls between ages 11 and 15 in Cache School District had the opportunity to learn about aviation …
The Utah State Board of Education (USBE) Friday approved eight public schools for the Utah STEM School Designation. This is the second group of schools to be selected since the program began last year. USBE, in partnership with the Utah STEM Action Center, developed the Utah STEM Schools Designation program to better define and standardize the elements that create a …
STEM Platinum School, Beehive Science and Technology Academy was awarded the third-place award among the thirty-nine countries around the world represented in the robot game at the FIRST LEGO League Competition this past weekend in Houston, Texas. Way to go, team! FIRST Lego League | UAkron
The STEM Ambassador Program is for college students or recent college graduates who have a passion for STEM and would like to volunteer their time promoting science, technology, engineering, and math to students, educators, and industry throughout the state of Utah. “I was working in D.C. in Congressman Stewart’s office for a summer, and I met someone from the Governor’s …
The mission is simple. All you must do is design an attachment for a quadcopter that would allow for the transportation of supplies to a designated area. Students at the Advanced Learning Center were given this task after their teacher received a Classroom Grant from the Utah STEM Action Center for quadcopters. Students used the design process and engineering notebooks …