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The STEM Education Coalition is delighted to announce the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) has joined the Coalition's Leadership Council. For more than six decades, SWE has given women engineers a unique place and voice within the engineering industry. The organization is centered around a passion for their members' success and continues to evolve with the challenges and opportunities reflected in today's exciting engineering and technology specialties.
Note to 2016 GOP contenders: The Common Core has won the war. Republican presidential candidates are still bashing the divisive K-12 standards. Donald Trump recently called the Common Core a "complete disaster," and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz proclaimed they should be abolished - along with the Education Department.
definition of STEM-an acronym for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-to include computer science programs,
Today, approximately 650 middle school and high school science students will come to USC to take part in a laser and optics interactive fair. Sounds wonky? It isn't. Optics and laser technologies are the technologies on our smartphone screens and smartphone cameras and are influencing the future of self-driving cars. According to the industry organization SPIE, the size of the photonics and laser industry is expected to grow to over $650 billion by 2020.
