Win $1000 For Your Classroom

Are you an educator in grades K­8? Do you have access to a camera or smartphone that can shoot video? You’re eligible to enter our 2015 Earth Day Challenge, a classroom video contest that encourages students to explore the impact of chemistry on their world. Entry deadline: April 17, 2015.

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Getting Girls Interested in STEM

Women are underrepresented in most STEM fields, including chemistry, physics, engineering, computer science, and math. Parentage Magazine asked four women who work at the Intelligent Robotics group at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA, how they’re getting their daughters ­ and sons ­ interested in STEM. Their advice? Read on to find out.

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Educators Respond: I Can Do This!

We’ve conducted several dozen Essential Elements professional development workshops over the past year, and at the end of each workshop, we ask the K­8 educators who attend for detailed feedback. The responses have blown us away. Read on to find out more!

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Celebrate Engineers Week!

Discover­E Engineers Week is a time to celebrate the ways that engineers make a difference in the world, increase public dialogue about the need for more engineers, and bring engineering to life for students, educators, and parents. To celebrate, we’ll be sharing some of our favorite achievements of engineering on our social media pages -­ everything from the practical to the downright mind­blowing.

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