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Women in Technology: The Next Generation

BY Eileen SweeneyWed Feb 23, 2011

It's time to think about what the women leaders in tech can do to encourage girls to take on the challenge of changing our world through technology. Three organizations are attacking the "girl-problem" head-on: the Girl Scouts, the National Engineers Week Foundation, and the National Center for Women & Information Technology.READ»

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STEM's Shop Class Trades Woodworking for Motherboard Building

BY Gregory FerensteinWed Feb 23, 2011

A Minnesota school high school swaps birdhouse construction for cutting edge computer building assignments.READ»

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An "Innovation Gap"? Chasing the Spirit of Edison

BY David ZaxThu Jan 20, 2011

Young people in America are increasingly qualified to follow in the great inventors footsteps--yet fewer think they'll do so. A survey probes why.READ»

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Superman and STEM

BY Eileen SweeneyMon Nov 29, 2010

With the buzz surrounding Davis Guggenheim's "Waiting for Superman" film and the recent launch of President Obama's Change the Equation initiative, education once again comes to the forefront of the national agenda. This flurry of attention is a great opportunity to gauge the progress of our country in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)--and to examine how to move the education agenda forward.READ»

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105 Companies Join Forces With Obama to "Change The Equation" for Education

BY Austin CarrThu Sep 16, 2010

More than 100 companies are joining forces--from Facebook to Microsoft, DreamWorks to Google--to increase student literacy in science, technology, engineering, and math, which will account for some 8 million jobs by 2018. READ»

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Advance Education Reform Through Service, Creativity, and Collaboration

BY Eileen SweeneyWed Jul 21, 2010

I recently returned from the National Conference on Volunteering and Service in New York, the world's largest gathering of volunteer leaders from the nonprofit, corporate, and government sectors, where we explored how to ...READ»