When COVID-19 abruptly shut down Prairie-Hills Junior High School in Markham, teacher Sheena Birgans-Wright was determined to see that the crisis would not derail the robust STEM program she’d built ...

Madison Ingram climbed on top of a chair, hoisting her group’s homemade hot air balloon as high as she could. The 16-year-old Bexley High School junior let go of the hot air balloon — made with six ...

Oak Park River Forest High School junior Maya Souden first noticed the Investigative Research Design and Innovation class when she was a freshman flipping through the school’s offerings and planning ...

Robots, 3D printers, microscopes and more: Endeavour Elementary School's new STEM classroom has everything. The new tech has only been available since March 24, but already, fifth grader Dayana ...

When that last class wraps up before summer break, it's tempting to let kids forget all about school for a few months. The end of school doesn't have to mean the end of learning, though — in fact, the ...

Ruier Fang loves science class, especially the hands-on experiments, such as creating chemical reactions and dissecting parts of an animal brain. “But I didn’t know how that would apply to a career,” ...

It was a typical online class in the Covid era. Emoji, ranging from heart-eyes to clapping hands, flooded the video call in an upward stream while students aged 6 to 18, as well as myself, watched a ...

It’s that time of year. Parents will be posting pictures in social media of their kids on the way back to school. Here in Georgia, many K-12 school systems start this week. I am a Professor at the ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. An aspiring chemist goes to college, realizes she’s not good at chemistry, and bombs her dissertation. She takes a class in standup comedy and decides the best ...