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Cabot Corporation: Our Corporate Giving strategy is designed to support Cabot's community outreach activities, with priority given to science and technology education, and community and civic improvement efforts in the communities where we operate. A key element of this strategy is to have Cabot's four regions — North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and South America — be participants in Cabot's Corporate Giving program.
At Cisco Systems Inc., the company is celebrating the 10th year of one of its major efforts to promote science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education — not only locally but around the globe.
A decade ago, Cisco launched the Cisco Networking Academy, an e-learning program that teaches networking and technology skills and bring underserved communities across the digital divide. The academy operates in more than 160 countries and has served more than 2 million students.
Closer to home, Rich Power, community relations manager for New England, says Cisco has kept that education focus as it helps ready students for STEM careers. “Step one in doing that is to prepare students for the upcoming STEM-focused standardized tests for schools throughout Massachusetts,” Power said.
SolidWorks software donation supports fusion of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in education
CONCORD, Mass., Feb. 27, 2006 — SolidWorks Corporation today announced it would grant SolidWorks® Student Edition CAD software to as many as 1,000 individual U.S. educators in a new initiative aimed at improving students’ math skills and their interest in technology-related careers.
The SolidWorks-STEM Educators grant – whose acronym stands for science, technology, engineering, and math – includes training and lesson plans to help teachers and faculty from middle school through college integrate the four separate disciplines for more effective education.
With backing by the National Science Foundation (NSF), STEM is an emerging movement in American education, which is increasingly realizing that global competitiveness requires students to be technologically literate. STEM addresses academic warning signs such as a new study funded by the Department of Education that found that U.S. math students in 4th and 8th grade perform consistently below peers around the world and continue that trend into high school. To read more, click here.
A STEM Plan for Massachusetts
Take a look at the plan for encouraging students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Technology and how industry can benefit. Download the PDF file, or open the HTML version here.
