Policy Updates – August 19, 2019

[Veronica Gonzales]

Policy updates for the week include:

– This Week in policy – August 19, 2019 

– FY 2020 Appropriations Update

 

Items from Patti Curtis, the Robert Noyce/Ellen Lettvin STEM Education Fellow in the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, U.S. Department of Education, http://www.ed.gov/STEM

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• National Survey of Science & Math Education + Computer Science (NSSME+, 2018) Webinar, featuring Eric Banilower, the study’s author from Horizon Research, Inc., and Joshua Elder, Director of Strategic Initiatives at CSforAll, providing a response from the field. Watch here.
• Collegiate teams can enter the U.S. Dept. of Energy Solar Decathlon^® 2020 Design Challenge, designed to test students’ creativity, ingenuity, and passion for designing highly efficient and innovative buildings powered by renewable energy.

• Representatives from education, business, government, after school, and non-profits gathered at theSTEM Summit Aug. 8 at Montana State University in Bozeman

New Resources from Patti Curtis

• Her STEM Career: Adventures of 51 Remarkable Women
• How She Discovered Engineering
• US Department of Education STEM Webpage