By Natalie Colarossi
NASA’s Perseverance rover, which successfully landed on Mars on February 18, has obtained the first ever audio recording of wind on the red planet. Continue reading NASA Perseverance Rover Records First-Ever Sound of Wind on Mars
The CA STEAM Symposium Team is launching a free Peer Mentoring program with the goal of connecting and activating our amazing STEAM Community during a challenging time where many people feel isolated.
Click here to learn more and enroll.
Enroll by 3/12/21 to develop a new, caring, & thought-provoking connection!
Antonio T. Baines knows what it’s like to feel alone in the lab. He lived it while getting his doctorate. “I was in this Ph.D. pharmacology/toxicology graduate program, and there was nobody who looked like me when I first got there,” he says.
Continue reading Finding Yourself and Your Community when You Are Black in STEM
When Jake Soberal founded tech hub Bitwise Industries alongside Irma Olguin Jr. in 2013, the “volume of injustice” for impoverished communities of systemic poverty rang at a medium decibel. Since then, the noise has noticeably increased.
Continue reading California Tech Hub Bitwise Industries Raises $50 Million In Quest To Diversify The Workforce
An absolutely brilliant young woman in Kenya has started a company manufacturing bricks from plastic waste.
The Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) industry as a whole has a lot of work to do when it comes to adding diversity to its field.
Continue reading Why Representation Is So Important In The STEM Industry
NASA will honor members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery, including the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, during the agency’s annual Day of Remembrance Thursday, Jan. 28. This year’s NASA Day of Remembrance also marks 35 years since the Challenger tragedy.
Continue reading NASA Pays Tribute to Fallen Heroes with Day of Remembrance
Diversity is a hot topic in the tech industry — and because it’s discussed frequently, it might be easy to feel like things have already changed. But according to a recent Women in Technology report from IDC, only 42% of women feel their employer offered equal pay, compared to 75% of men who feel the same.
Continue reading 20 worthwhile conferences for women in tech
Former NASA astronaut Jose Hernandez spent most of his youth working the fields.
So many kids have struggled with remote learning, but Hernandez wants them all to know when it comes to their future, the sky’s the limit.
Continue reading Farmworker turned astronaut Jose Hernandez urges kids not to give up
FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington has received a National Science Foundation grant of $96,377 to engage rural students with disabilities in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning through accessible makerspaces.
Continue reading Grant to make STEM education more accessible to students with disabilities
