STEM Archives - Northwest Public Broadcasting

Nuevo centro de aprendizaje STEM se creará en el valle de Yakima

By Johanna Bejarano December 20, 2024

Adelante STEM Center planned at Heritage University (Courtesy Heritage University)

La Universidad Heritage remodelará su edificio Kathleen Ross Center. La universidad de Toppenish, Washington, invertirá más de dos millones de dólares en mejorar su biblioteca y añadir un nuevo centro para ayudar a los estudiantes a acceder a carreras STEM.Read More

New STEM learning center to be created in the Yakima Valley

By Johanna Bejarano December 20, 2024

Heritage University Adelante STEM Center design.

Heritage University will remodel its Kathleen Ross Center building. The university in Toppenish, WA will invest more than $2 million to improve its library and add a new center to help students get into STEM jobs.Read More

Student-led podcast explores Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s culture, science and history

By Lauren Paterson December 8, 2022

Students stand overlooking green hills and trees.

Voices to Hear students stand on the edge of Steptoe Butte in the Palouse Hills of east Washington. (Credit: Voices to Hear) Listen In an effort to get more Idaho […]Read More

University Of Idaho Training Teachers To Provide Dual-Credit Cybersecurity Course

By NWPB News May 14, 2021

The new Cybersecurity program at the University of Idaho, taught by Terence Soule, top. Courtesy of UIdaho Photo Services

The University of Idaho has partnered with the STEM Action Center to offer training sessions over the summer to high school teachers, which will allow them to teach CS 112: Computational Thinking and Problem Solving, and CYB 110: Cybersecurity and Privacy for dual credit.Read More

StoryCorps Northwest: Two Science Professors On The Importance Of Mentorship

By Sueann Ramella December 30, 2020

Rachel Jameton, left, and Jane Finan, right

Rachel Jameton struggled as a new teacher at Lewis Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. Her colleague, Jane Finan, co-taught biology with her. The two talk about mentorship and how disappointing a teacher can be transformative for a student, in this episode of StoryCorps Northwest, recorded virtually.Read More

Join Us! Plowing Fresh Ground: A Discussion Of Women In Agriculture, Oct. 2 In Palouse

By Scott Leadingham October 1, 2019

Join Northwest Public Broadcasting’s Gillian Coldsnow and Anna King and the American Association of University Women Palouse-Garfield Branch for a lively discussion of women in agriculture and STEM fields. WHEN: […]Read More

Why Teachers Need Support To Spur Preschool STEM Education

By PBS Newshour March 19, 2018

Everyone knows that 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds ask a lot of questions. But that unrestrained curiosity can unsettle preschool teachers who feel they lack sufficient understanding of STEM education.Read More