Three Seattle-area teams made strong showings during the national finals of the 2024 American Rocketry Challenge, the world’s largest student rocket-launching challenge. Out of 100 teams competing during the event… Read More
Retired Seattle Storm star Sue Bird is teaming with cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase to donate $25,000 to Techbridge Girls, a nonprofit that promotes science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) opportunities… Read More
The future is bright — and partially paid for — for 13 students from across the Seattle region after Amazon surprised them this week with college scholarships as part of… Read More
Google’s philanthropic arm is giving a $500,000 grant to expand access to robotics and artificial intelligence education programs across Washington state middle schools, the company announced Friday. In partnership with… Read More
Six orange statues on display at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle offer an eye-catching way to learn about the contributions of women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).… Read More
Seattle University landed $1.5 million in funding from the National Science Foundation to support low-income students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) programs. The NSF dollars will allow the university… Read More
A team of students from Newport High School in Bellevue, Wash., made a strong showing at the International Rocketry Challenge outside London on Friday, finishing second behind Team Japan and… Read More
Two teams from one high school in Bellevue, Wash., are flying high after a rocket-launching competition on the other side of the country last weekend. Newport High School (Team 2)… Read More
Seattle’s Pacific Science Center is teaming with the Amazon Future Engineer program to deliver more science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) interactive education programming to students from underserved and historically underrepresented… Read More
Christine Ye, a senior at Eastlake High School in Sammamish, Wash., has won the top award in the nation’s oldest and most prestigious competitions for science students, thanks to her… Read More
NASA has chosen 57 winning teams — including a team from Interlake High School in Bellevue, Wash.— to receive funding to build and fly experiments focusing on subjects ranging from… Read More
The Seattle region topped 100 U.S. metro areas in a new ranking of the best and worst places for professionals in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) jobs. The comparison… Read More
Mona Li was already a student leader during her time at Garfield High School in Seattle, where she helped empower other girls and get them interested in technology and STEM-related… Read More
Orion Razat is a busy kid. The newly turned 12-year-old is already an accomplished author who is working on his second book. He’s also an entrepreneur, animator, public speaker, designer,… Read More
Seattle-startup Gotara is on a mission to get more women in STEM through a mentoring software platform aimed at boosting retention. Founded by D. Sangeeta, a former vice president of… Read More
Update, June 29: A handful of teams from the Seattle area and another from southeastern Washington state made a strong showing in the finals this month of the American Rocketry… Read More
Deena Pierott answered the phone and remarked about how glad she was that it was Friday. “I don’t know why I say that because I work seven days a week,”… Read More
At the ages of 11 and 12, Merrill Keating wrote and published three books. It turns out her story was just getting started. Merrill’s long list of activities and achievements… Read More
Seattle University has attached a name to the $100 million Center for Science and Innovation that it is building as a gateway to its campus. The building will be named… Read More
Back in middle school, Archika Dogra considered herself a “humanities kid” who didn’t have a lot of interest in science, technology, engineering and math. Wrapping up her first virtual semester… Read More
When she’s not competing in wrestling, whipping up recipes in cooking club or volunteering at her local library branch, Isabella Arreola is busy excelling at the science, technology, engineering and… Read More
Are you looking for educational activities to occupy the kids while you’re cooped up due to the coronavirus outbreak? One option is to make space postcards for the Club for… Read More
Before they’re even old enough to drive a car, a team of kids competing in FIRST LEGO League robotics are already thinking about ways to prevent distracted driving and the… Read More
Each year, participants in the FIRST LEGO League robotics competition are presented with a challenge which they must take on as a team using their skills in science, technology, engineering… Read More
Middle and high school students from across Washington state competed in a robotics challenge last week at the University of Washington to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon… Read More
As a young girl, Amanda Sullivan never met any female engineers or scientists. She was never encouraged to pursue a hobby or club around STEM (science, technology, engineering and math).… Read More
The West Coast’s tech hubs are leading the nation in the race to grow employment in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. STEM jobs increased 8.2 percent in Los Angeles… Read More
A team from the University of Washington just returned from a competition on Mars. Or, Utah’s version of the Red Planet. Husky Robotics, a student-led organization, competed in the University… Read More
Seattle University prepared to break ground Thursday on what it is calling the “new heart” of its Capitol Hill campus, a Center for Science & Innovation that will be the… Read More
Six Seattle-area teams are among the 101 finalists who will compete in this weekend’s Team America Rocketry Challenge, the aerospace and defense industry’s flagship program designed to encourage students to… Read More
