Hazel Green High School in Huntsville, Ala., received 100 laptop computers as part of a new program to promote and enhance reading comprehension. The computers were donated in partnership by Lockheed Martin and NASA for Lockheed’s Outsourcing Desktop Initiative Program for NASA. Through Lockheed’s and NASA’s support of the ODIN program, 106,000 computers have been [...]
IT and communications firm Cisco announced it is teaming up with STEMNET, which promotes science and technology, to challenge students across the United Kingdom to create an online presence for the U.K. Paralympics team. Cisco is the official network infrastructure provider of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games to be held in London. Students, ages [...]
With the upcoming USA Science and Engineering Festival in October in Washington, D.C., Dr. Ray Johnson, senior vice president and chief technology officer at Lockheed Martin, spoke to EarthSky about the future in science and technology. Expected to draw a million visitors to the National Mall on Oct. 23-24, Johnson said the aim of the [...]
Last April, President Obama issued a challenge to corporations and individuals: It’s time to reinvigorate America’s STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) educational enterprise. Looks like Walt Havenstein, SAIC’s new CEO, is picking up the torch. Just recently Havenstein told a paper in Huntsville, Ala., where SAIC employs 2,300: “STEM is a way of getting [...]
