This post is part of Mashable’s ongoing series The Women Fixing STEM, which highlights trailblazing women in science, tech, engineering, and math, as well as initiatives and organizations working to close the industries’ gender gaps.
Diversifying th…
View More Two kickass women created a neon-lit pop-up classroom to teach girls to code/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F841914%2F14dfa5cc-155f-4492-980c-b1dd9ac21eed.png)
This post is part of Mashable’s ongoing series The Women Fixing STEM, which highlights trailblazing women in science, tech, engineering, and math, as well as initiatives and organizations working to close the industries’ gender gaps.
Women have made invaluable, groundbreaking contributions to science, technology, engineering, and math. Yet if you’re a girl who doesn’t see that represented in popular culture, you might think a STEM career is for men — particularly those who solve problems with equal measures of brilliance and bluster.
SEE ALSO: Latinas hold only 2% of STEM jobs. These 5 women are working to fix that. Read more…
More about Stem, Science And Technology, Stem Gender Gap, Women Stem, and Social Good
/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F840424%2F3abe44cf-8170-4a9a-91d1-a747ebb15c3e.jpg)
8×8 LED Matrix gives it a personality • A very customizable experience through SpheroEDU • Three distinct modes to engage with BOLT • Fully redesigned hardware leads to impressive breakthroughs • A long term product you can grow with
Slow 6-hour charging time • No internal speaker
BOLT is the most refined product from Sphero yet, compete with hardware that finally matches a great app experience that merges fun, creativity, and learning. Most importantly, BOLT will last a while and can grow with the user.
Read more…More about Reviews, Review, Robot, Stem, and Sphero
View More Sphero BOLT review: Ingenious upgrade to the app-enabled robotThis post is part of Mashable’s ongoing series The Women Fixing STEM, which highlights trailblazing women in science, tech, engineering, and math, as well as initiatives and organizations working to close the industries’ gender gaps.
Many barriers st…
This post is part of Mashable’s ongoing series The Women Fixing STEM, which highlights trailblazing women in science, tech, engineering, and math, as well as initiatives and organizations working to close the industries’ gender gaps
Learning shouldn’…
/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fstory%2Fthumbnail%2F79217%2F8681dd5e-c7aa-488a-8ab0-d3e439276ead.png)
This post is part of Mashable’s ongoing series The Women Fixing STEM, which highlights trailblazing women in science, tech, engineering, and math, as well as initiatives and organizations working to close the industries’ gender gaps.
With patience, Emily Cruz detangled a vine with Dorito-shaped leaves from a fallen branch, unwinding it slowly and then pulling it out from the roots.
The 12-year-old and 40 other middle-school girls were working to remove what’s known as mile-a-minute vines recently from New York City’s largest green space as part of a program aimed at encouraging girls to pursue environmental science. Over the years, the fast-growing plant has elbowed its way into Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, which is more than three times the size of Manhattan’s Central Park Read more…
More about Science, Environment, Stem, Stem Gender Gap, and Women Stem
This post is part of Mashable’s ongoing series The Women Fixing STEM, which highlights trailblazing women in science, tech, engineering, and math, as well as initiatives and organizations working to close the industries’ gender gaps.
Google just debu…
/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F818218%2F27495c09-8d8b-4bf4-af66-96be646c04a0.jpg)
Back to school season is (somehow) here, y’all.
This means parents have about a month of kids being excited about entering a new grade until they’re, uh, not anymore — and then they’re rushing through homework to get back to video games and Spongebob. Awesome.
That is, unless they have toys that make math, science, creativity, and spelling fun instead of frustratingWalmart has a massive learning toys section and has dropped the price on a ton of items to give parents a hand with getting kids pumped for learning, just in time for the new school year. Read more…
More about Toys, Stem, Back To School, Mashable Shopping, and Shopping Fun
The fantasy world of Barbie dolls just got more high-tech. On Tuesday, Mattel, the company that makes the famous stick figurine, announced Barbie’s new career: robotics engineer.
The “Career of the Year” Barbie is now available online for $13.9…
In a policy change set for next month, the Trump administration is moving to shorten visas for Chinese students in fields like tech and engineering. While most visas are issued for the longest possible length of time under law, the new policy will allow U.S. officials to put a one year cap on visas for […]
View More Trump’s visa restrictions aimed at Chinese STEM students to start in June/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F771157%2F290fea4f-7ae7-487b-b780-e94a7f920007.jpg)
Arduino Day isn’t just the birthday of a versatile, open-source platform adored by developers and engineers everywhere. It’s a celebration of creativity and technology, of makers and tinkerers, of STEM students and future visionaries. Most of all, it’s a reminder that we all have the ability to build impressive projects without Tony Stark levels of genius or wealth.
So on May 12th, why not take the time to get to know Arduino? To get you started, we’ve rounded up five of the best Arduino online courses and kits that’ll give Iron Man a run for his money. Read more…
More about Stem, Robotics, Arduino, Mashable Shopping, and Shopping List
View More Celebrate Arduino Day with discounts on courses and kits/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fstory%2Fthumbnail%2F76794%2F8c1d0502-7b76-436f-b703-c9a5b2581ed3.jpg)
