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#After-schoolWorks

During the United States 2020 budget proposal, the Trump administration proposed to eliminate the 21st Century Community Learning Centers. This would have stopped after-school programs across the United States from receiving funding, which would have negatively impacted nearly 2 million children. The Trump administration planned to cut funding under the precedent that the programs had…

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AT&T Advocates for STEM Education

Everyone knows AT&T as the multi-billion dollar phone carrier network. They have sponsorships with professional sports teams and spend millions on advertisements that people are exposed to everyday. But what many people may not know about is AT&T’s devotion to childhood education and success. The At&T Aspire program has approximately 10,000 students enrolled in its…

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Women in STEM: Shrinking the Gender Gap

Pooja Chandrashekar graduated from Harvard in 2018 with her A.B in Biomedical Engineering and a minor in Global Health and Health Policy. She was also the recipient of the 2018-19 Fulbright U.S Student Research Scholarship. As a high school sophomore, Chandrashekar founded ProjectCSGIRLS. The goal of this non-profit is to close the gender gap in…

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STEM or STEAM?

STEM is an acronym that represents science, technology, engineering and math. STEAM represents the same four fields but adds in art related subjects. We often get the question of: Why don’t you change to STEAM? Our initial response is, always, we are STEAM and the “A” stands for activity! However, on a more serious note,…

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It’s all in the sole

On March 9th, Duke and University of North Carolina men’s basketball played in their rivalry game. Within the first possessions of the game, Zion Williamson, the projected number one overall pick in the 2019 NBA draft, blew out his shoe and injured his knee. Williamson is still not playing due to this injury. Following the…

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I Tried STEM Sports®

My name is Lauren Chiangpradit and I have been the blog post writer for STEM Sports® since I began my internship here in January 2019. I am a junior sports journalism major at Arizona State University. Coming into this internship I had a concrete base of sports knowledge but was not as confident in my…

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STEM and Stability

When people hear science, technology, engineering and math, they often associate it with difficulty. Kids may be disinclined to take STEM subjects in school due to this long-time stigma. In a study done by the Pew Research Center, 46 percent of K-12 kids did not like science-based classes because they thought they were too difficult….