Last year, a few L.A.-area African American parents learned a startling fact – only 19% of Black students, from 3rd to 11th grade, were proficient in math.
The Oil and Natural Gas Industry Offers Higher Wages for Black STEM Professionals
The Rosemead-based parent company of Southern California Edison will award $40,000 scholarships, paid over four years, to 30 scholars enrolled in a four-year accredited U.S. college or university after high school graduation.
“Thanks to Toyota and the Keck Foundation, we are now much more equipped to take engineering and mathematical concepts that are theoretical and physically put them in the hands of students to bring STEM to life,” said California State University Dominguez Hills President Willie J. Hagan, ahead of the debut of Four new mobile fabrication laboratories (fab labs) at the Carson campus on September 27.
The Los Angeles County Community Development Foundation (LACDF) gave $35,000 in scholarships to 33 students in public housing and Section 8 participants on July 20.
“The consistent thing we hear from the Facebooks and Googles of the world is that they are not able to identify young talented people of color,” explained Eli KennedyCEO of the Level Playing Field Institute, the organization that heads up the Summer Math and Science Honors program at UCLA.
Verizon Foundation’s education arm Verizon Innovative Learning recently expanded their STEM & entrepreneurship program for minority middle school boys, according to officials of the organization.
It’s time to invest in STEM teachers so our young people—Black, White, Latino, Asian American or Native American—can innovate the future!
The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and Northrop Grumman partnered this summer to educate and mentor African American elementary scholars on STEM.
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Recognizing the vital importance of mentorship in the development of the nation’s next generation of leaders, the U.S. Army continues its partnership with 100 Black Men of America.
Students present park designs to L.A. Board of Public Works
The Los Angeles Board of Public Works and HNTB Corporation recently completed two sessions of hands-on aviation experience with the Los Angeles Unified School District’s first all-girls middle school – the Girls Academic Leadership Academy (GALA). The collaborative SPARK LA partnership between the City of Los Angeles and HNTB supplements the new school’s focus on a STEM curriculum – science, technology, engineering and math – to attract more female students to pursue degrees and professions where females traditionally are underrepresented. During the session hosted by HNTB aviation professionals and Los Angeles World Airports representatives, students had the opportunity to perform
NSBE, SWE and WEPAN Report Makes New Recommendations for STEM Diversity
Author Margot Lee Shetterly talks about the inception of her book “Hidden Figures”
Host: Brandon I. Brooks