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Hadley Hitson, Montgomery AdvertiserSeptember 7, 2023 Montgomery-area industry, government and education leaders launched one of Alabama’s first regional STEM ecosystems on Saturday with a celebration at the Cramton Bowl Multiplex. More than 850 kids registered for...

BY ANTHONY McAULEY | Staff writer Calvin Mackie arrived for breakfast at the Mid-City Ruby Slipper one recent Saturday morning wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the logo of STEM NOLA and donning a Morehouse College cap. He apologized for running a few minutes late and...

Author: wwltv.com Published: 10:44 AM CDT September 6, 2023 Updated: 10:44 AM CDT September 6, 2023

NEW ORLEANS (press release) – The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology  has named STEM NOLA — a New Orleans-based science, technology, engineering, and math education leader — its inaugural Engineering Change award winner. ABET accredits over 4,500...

Frank T. Joshua Jr. is a construction site manager who has an unwavering love for STEM education. He grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, and was always interested in how things worked. He loved taking things apart and putting them back together, and he was always eager...

Check out the FOX8 segment about STEM NOLA Summer Camps aired July 2023.

“The problem that is facing us isn’t new, we’re in the midst of a fourth industrial revolution. The first industrial revolution… we had a challenge of switching an agricultural society to an industrial society… Now, we are in a fourth industrial revolution, which includes the internet of things, censors, artificial intelligence, robotics… The only difference in those other three industrial revolutions was that we always trained people to do the work and we had enough people, primarily white males. The challenge is now we need everybody and now we have to talk about STEM for all… and we need to make sure that the resources the congressman talks about are applied equally to communities that otherwise have never had access,” said Dr. Mackie.

WASHINGTON – Outlining a platform to increase STEM careers in urban and minority communities, Dr. Calvin Mackie, founder and president of STEM NOLA, told a congressional briefing that children must be exposed to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education at an early age and K-12 teachers need better preparation to be more effective.

Outlining a platform to increase STEM careers in urban and minority communities, Dr. Calvin Mackie, founder and president of STEM NOLA, told a congressional briefing that children must be exposed to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education at an early age and K-12 teachers need better preparation to be more effective. Dr. Mackie also asserted that parents and communities must prioritize STEM education because it will fuel quality jobs for their children – today and in the future.

Dr. Calvin Mackie understands the opportunity an education can afford historically underserved youth. One day when he was young and helping his father, who was a roofer in New Orleans, his dad said, “See those people in suits coming in and out of this building? If you stay in school, you could be one of those people.”

Dr. Calvin Mackie understands the opportunity an education can afford historically underserved youth. One day when he was young and helping his father, who was a roofer in New Orleans, his dad said, “See those people in suits coming in and out of this building? If you stay in school, you could be one of those people.”