Kristina Lindh

Some 1,200 students from around the region descended on Sausalito on Monday for a field trip in STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — at the Bay Area Discovery Museum. The Google-funded event was for students up to third grade, including a group from the Novato Youth Center. View Press Coverage

100Kin10, which aims to train 100,000 STEM teachers in 10 years, expands on a vision launched in response to the Obama administration’s call about five years ago. View Press Coverage

A variety of organizations are currently working to create STEM curricula and introduce outreach and educational programs, including Nickelodeon, the Bay Area Discovery Museum in Sausalito, the Early Math Collaborative at the Erikson Institute in Chicago, Girl Scouts of the USA and the Jim Henson Company, writes Yizhu Wang for EdScoop. View Press Coverage

A massive collection of public- and private-sector groups on Thursday will call for a national push to teach science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to children as young as 3 or 4 years old. View Press Coverage

Private sector groups from across the country are committing to the following actions today to increase access to high-quality early STEM education: The Bay Area Discovery Museum is launching Empowered Engineering, an initiative designed to bring high-quality engineering experiences to young children. View Press Coverage

Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman’s personal education story may sound familiar to many families struggling against a system that doesn’t tend to value qualities in students that make them different from a predetermined “average” learner. View Press Coverage