After-School STEM Kits. Physics Workshop. STEM Education Gets A Creative Classroom Twist Through the Toshiba/NSTA Exploravision Awards Program | Business News. – World’s Largest K-12 Science and Technology Competition Empowers Students to Change the World, Announces Important Dates for 2011 Program – Arlington, VA, September 1 – For the past 19 years, thousands of classrooms across the U.S. and Canada have gotten a creative boost in important STEM, or science, technology, engineering and math education, thanks to the Toshiba/National Science Teachers Association ExploraVision Awards Program, the world’s largest K–12 science and technology competition.
In ExploraVision, students discover the wonders of science and the potential for technological advancement while using their imaginations to contemplate a better future. Applications for next year’s competition will be available online at exploravision.org starting August 30 and are due by February 2, 2011. Students on the four first-place ExploraVision winning teams will each receive a $10,000 U.S. Series EE Savings Bond valued at maturity.
About Toshiba Toshiba’s U.S. About NSTA Contact: How can we reform science education? By Samantha Stainburn Ask a scientist in their mid 50s or older where they were in 1961 when President John F. Kennedy spoke to Congress about the urgency of sending a man to the moon, and chances are they’ll remember. After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite, into space in 1957, competing against the Russians in science and technology became a national obsession. The federal government poured money into improving science education, sponsoring summer institutes on college campuses for K-12 teachers and awarding grants to science education experts to develop cutting-edge textbooks and curricula. The American students who studied science during this period went on to invent the artificial heart, the personal computer, rockets that have flown to Mars and two-in-one shampoo.
Reform agenda Science educators and researchers consider these four areas particularly ripe for reform: Standards Elementary education Curriculum Teachers No longer. Presidential priorities. Public Agenda Alert: Science Ed - Waiting Too Long, Settling for Too Little?