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Templeton and Young inspire the next generation of engineers through equitable STEM outreach programs

More than 100 students to start off the new year with Rice University’s Young Scholar Invent workshop. Diversity in the workplace begins in the high school classroom, where students are inspired to pursue their field of interest. 
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Rice Expands Health Care Solutions for Local Teens

A group of 22 high school students returned to the Rice University campus this fall to participate in the Innovator Spotlight workshop. These entrepreneurial-minded students were selected for the exceptional projects and ideas they had developed in the Digital Health Young Scholars program.
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Taking STEM education further: Rice expands low-cost health care solutions workshops for local teens

Students from the Digital Health Young Scholars program, returned to campus this fall with an exclusive invite to take part in the Innovator Spotlight workshop.
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Rice engages young minds with STEM-focused summer camps

STEM-letics, a weeklong day camps for third, fourth and fifth grade students; designed to keep students both mentally and physically active during the summer break.
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Rice working with nonprofit to develop next generation of environmental justice advocates

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation will partner with Rice University’s Office of STEM Engagement.
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Summer Program Prepares Under-served High School Students for Careers in Architecture

The Rice Architecture Summer Immersion program provides academic guidance to underserved high school students from the Houston community.
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NanoAcademy Workshops Spark Interest in Young Learners

Close to 200 Houston-area students attended a series of NanoAcademy workshops on Feb. 3rd and 10th that were designed to bring innovative, cutting-edge research directly into their hands.
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AMPosium! draws big crowd at BRC

Rice University’s Office of STEM Engagement and ConocoPhillips welcomed 150 past and current participants in the ConocoPhillips Applied Math Program (AMP!) to AMPosium! March 25 at the BioScience Research Collaborative. 
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Black girls benefit most when STEM teachers train up

When middle and high school teachers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics pursue continuing professional development, their students benefit, and a new study from Rice University shows the payoff can be dramatic.
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An Analysis of the Effect of Long-Term Professional Development on Teacher Engineering Self-Efficacy and Its Impact on Classroom Instruction

How R-STEM's NEWT NEET course impacts teachers' self-efficacy.
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Virtual toolbox jumpstarts Rice STEM programs online

The Rice Office of STEM Engagement has added a virtual platform, making STEM education more accessible.
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A STEM solution for educational disparity

The educational need in Houston is great, but R-STEM and Carolyn Nichol are doing their best to help solve the problem.
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