At just 8 years old, Xóchitl Guadalupe Cruz has invented a device to help low-income families. The little girl from Chiapas was recognized by UNAM’s Institute of Nuclear Sciences for her outstanding scientific achievement. At just […]
Community members will now have an alternative resource for summer camps with Kansas City Kansas Community College’s Kids on Campus Program. The summer program will be offered from June 5 to July 28 and is […]
Gifted black and Hispanic students in Illinois are not getting the same academic opportunities as their white and Asian peers, yet some school districts are making strides toward being more equitable, according to a new […]
Our society is inching toward a future when the phrase “you code like a girl” will be a compliment of the highest order. But there are significant hurdles before we get there. The statistics behind […]
The 22-year-old graduated from MIT with a perfect score of 5.0 and is now a Harvard Ph.D candidate, where she studies space-time and black holes. The young Latina is exploring some of the most complex […]
Think Big Foundation and Cisco launched SensED – a project-based STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education program for middle and high school students – in September with a pilot kickoff at Think Big’s innovation center in […]
Last summer, researchers at Yale published a study proving that physicists, chemists and biologists are likely to view a young male scientist more favorably than a woman with the same qualifications. Presented with identical summaries […]
In an open letter sent last week to the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science […]
When women were reminded — even subtly — of the stereotype that men were better than women at math, the performance of women in math tests measurably declined. When women were reminded — even subtly […]
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