Hewlett-Packard Invests In STEM
Posted on June 7th, 2010 by ASEE
IT giant Hewlett-Packard is spending $1 million to support STEM learning through an international, interdisciplinary effort to join together schools, colleges and universities and nonprofit educational groups to work on specific issues. Five of these consortiums, or “sandboxes of innovation,” will tackle STEM-related challenges, from teacher training to online and collaborative learning.
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The Northrop Grumman Foundation Weightless Flights of Discovery program provides public Middle School teachers of STEM subjects the opportunity to join teacher workshops and parabolic flights in locations throughout the country.Teachers learn about the physics of weightlessness, design microgravity experiments, and experience a weightless flight. Teachers then use their videotaped flight experience and the results of the experiments to help shape math, science, technology or engineering curricula at their home schools.
PepsiCo, the second-largest soda pop maker in the world—has agreed to refrain from selling its sugary products in schools, removing full-calorie, sweetened drinks from primary and secondary schools in 200 countries by 2012. 
