Students at the Wake NC State University STEM Early College High School recently hosted a Computer Science Principles Gallery Walk to showcase their “Games with a Purpose.” Parents, Business Advisory Board members, school administration, NCSU computer science faculty and graduate students as well as NC New Schools were
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Wednesday, sadly, was my last day of school – sort of.
I’m writing a case study of an early college STEM school located on the campus of North Carolina State University. For the past month or so, I’ve spent many hours of many days getting to know the teachers, the staff, the kids, and in general seeing firsthand how this
...Well, it is truly hard to believe, but we are actually closing in on the end of the school year already. It seems like just yesterday that as the first cadre of STEP interns, we were all meeting for the first time at our program orientation.
We have all accomplished so much since that first meeting last April! Everyone has
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The following column by Christopher Gergen and Stephen Martin first appeared in The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer on Sunday, March 31, 2013. The authors served as judges for the Pitch Challenge at the Student STEM Symposium earlier in March.
This spring, approximately 91,000 North Carolina students will graduate from high school. More than three-fourths say they plan
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I found a teacher through NC STEP.
A year ago, I was home watching the 10 o’clock news and saw a story about a program in North Carolina looking for science, technology, engineering and math graduates or mid-career professionals. I had been laid-off from my network engineer position with an international telecommunications company. I had been on several interviews during
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