By Jenny Brundin, Colorado Public Radio | January 19, 2016 Go into any school — any kindergarten classroom for that matter — and you see the banners: Harvard, CU Boulder, Colorado State, School of Mines. The four-year college mantra is deeply embedded in the Colorado and American psyche. But what if …
Expanding STEMworks Database Supports Successful STEM Programs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 20, 2016 WHAT: First programs funded in new Colorado STEMworks database WHEN: Thursday, January 21 from 9 a.m. – noon WHERE: Gill Foundation, 2215 Market St, Denver, CO 80205 Denver, Colo. – Four promising local science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs were awarded $60,000 in grant funding for …
More On the STEM Cover Story: Closing the Student Achievement Gap
By Caitlin Hendee, Denver Business Journal | September 4, 2015 Ninth grader Hayden stares ahead confidently as he describes the inner workings of a molecule and sums up why a plant grows. Hayden is a student at the Denver School of Science and Technology — a public charter school in Denver’s Stapleton …
It’s Never too Early to Build a Better Workforce – Video Companion
By Kathleen Lavine, Denver Business Journal | September 4, 2015 STEM education prepares students to fill current workforce needs in a way traditional education hasn’t been able to do. Watch the video.
It’s Never too Early to Build a Better Workforce
By Caitlin Hendee, Denver Business Journal | September 4, 2015 There’s a buzz in the air at the STEM School and Academy in Highlands Ranch. Classrooms are filled with students using mathematics to create music for their instruments, tapping equations into computers, and talking excitedly about the wind tunnel or …