As a result of Widmeyer’s outreach, two inspiring teams who competed in the 2012 Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) – the world’s largest student rocket contest – were in the national media spotlight. Students and their teacher-mentor from tiny Presidio, Texas were featured on CBS News before and after the finals, which took place on [...]
Widmeyer was pleased to support the first-ever 100Kin10 Summit, which brought together partner organizations, Carnegie Corporation of New York and Opportunity Equation leadership, along with representatives from government and other non-profit leaders to discuss how the movement will take shape to help train, retain and support 100,000 excellent STEM educators over the next ten years. [...]
President Obama welcomed students from the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) at the second White House Science Fair on Tuesday, February 7, 2012. The students were among a select group of youth participating in the fair, which was attended by the president and his advisors [...]
As part of our work with Lumina Foundation’s Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) – Models of Success Program, Widmeyer secured an op-ed placement for the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP) in U.S. News & World Report. Dr. Kenneth Kitts, UNCP’s provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, discussed the role Native American students will [...]
As part of our work with the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the main funder of the National Research Council’s recently released Framework for K-12 Science Education, Widmeyer advised National Research Council staff in support of the Framework release. The report highlights the practices, ideas and cross-cutting concepts in science instruction. Widmeyer’s collaboration resulted in [...]
In the 2011 State of the Union Address, President Obama put out a call to action: to prepare 100,000 new, excellent science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers within the next 10 years. Led by the Carnegie Corporation, 28 organizations have already come together to form 100k10, a cross-sector partnership taking action to improve STEM [...]
U.S. employers remain concerned about hiring a competitive workforce. In a recent piece by James Hagerty in The Wall Street Journal he highlights the call for more innovation in education as math and science test scores lag behind China, Japan, South Korea and Germany. A new U.S. Chamber of Commerce report calls for a transformation [...]
Andrew Rotherham, in a TIME Magazine column, writes about the critical shortage of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) capable students. He notes it’s one of the things “that everyone in education seems to agree upon,” from President Obama to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a Widmeyer client.
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During a national summit of business and education leaders on April 13th, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for a Competitive Workforce (ICW) released a report outlining the essential role business plays in the success of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education. STEM education is crucial to U.S. students’ preparation for the future workforce [...]
Widmeyer created a communications plan for Iridescent’s Los Angeles and New York City Science Studio launch events to garner attendance and secure media coverage to ensure that the respective communities were aware of this exciting new educational resource.
