Report Released on STEM Education in Southwest PA
3/1/2009
The Southwest STEM Network partnered with Carnegie Mellon University’s Leonard Gelfand Center for Service Learning and Outreach and the Intermediate Unit 1 Center for STEM Education to develop a definitive report on the state of STEM education in Allegheny, Washington, Greene and Fayette counties. Through research that included focus groups and surveys conducted with educators throughout the region, the report demonstrated that greater awareness of STEM needs to be developed among educators – and that educators are eager to work with postsecondary partners to introduce students to STEM career pathways and higher educational experiences. The focus group sessions utilized the “Rising Above the Gathering Storm” report produced by the National Academies, and widely considered a benchmark report on STEM. Partners in the Southwest region will use this report to identify opportunities to move STEM education forward in the region. The research was made possible through a grant from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation.
