STEM Education

A suborbital rocket carrying a payload of NASA's TechRise Student Challenge exploded earlier this month at a launch facility in New Mexico. It carried a box of microprocessors programmed with computer code to determine if cosmic radiation would corrupt this data by changing it from one number to another.

About a third of Wyoming’s workforce is in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and it turns out that is about double than originally thought.

Three science teachers and a group of students are participating in the Global Lunar Expedition for Everyone, which will have them build a small LunaSat to be placed on the moon to conduct research. The launch and placement of the satellites is slated to take place sometime in 2023.

Due to the pandemic, the University of Wyoming Science Roadshow has reinvented itself. The Science Roadshow made its name by sending UW graduate and…

Wyoming’s education policymakers say the state needs to provide better career and technical education for K-12 students.The number of CTE classes and…

There’s a nationwide push to get more students involved in STEM education. That’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. But, despite enthusiasm—and…

A group of 8th graders from Wheatland Middle School who built a tornado shelter for a school competition won the top national prize for their efforts last…