Students From Around the State Honored for Commitment to Pursuing STEM Careers Just like college signing days for athletes, the second annual Arizona STEM Signing Day celebrated outstanding high school seniors from around the state as they made their commitments to education programs focusing on science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Boeing held the event on…

Mesa Public School Engineering Teachers Meeting the Need Head On June 2, 2020 This well-orchestrated project started with Randall Kirby, Mesa Public Schools Career and Technical Education Specialist identifying a need after his brother-in-law, a nurse specialist for Banner Desert Medical Center’s ICU in Mesa, gave him a heads up that Banner healthcare workers lacked…

Danyelle Khmara | Tucson.com June 18, 2020 An all-girl student engineering team at Magee Middle School came in first place in one category of an international competition in creative problem-solving. The TUSD school on Tucson’s east side came in first in the “structure problem” at Odyssey of the Mind World Finals, held virtually because of…

Semiconductor and other industries embrace augmented reality after finding new uses for the visualization tool during the pandemic. By Asa Fitch | The Wall Street Journal June 10, 2020  Intel Corp.’s semiconductor production hit a stumbling block in March. A chip plant in Chandler, Ariz., needed work done, but the engineer for the job was stuck…