Teacher Appreciation Helps 80,000 Students Participate in Robotics

This week in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math news, a new release from -DonorsChoose.org, FIRST and News Corp announced that their partnership in honor of National Teacher Appreciation Day resulted in the funding of over 500 STEM projects that helped over 80,000 students participate in STEM.

"The campaign to promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education was born out of a unique collaboration between News Corp philanthropy partners DonorsChoose.org, a crowd-funding platform for teachers, and FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a leader in K-12 STEM education. The two organizations joined forces to nurture technology and engineering education in public schools through the use of Robotics," the release said. Funding helped schools all over the country purchase materials to help start or grow robotics initiatives for their students.