Month: May 2014

Set for release WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 2014: Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space, the definitive biography of Sally Ride, America’s first woman in space, with exclusive insights from Ride’s family and partner, Tam O’Shaughnessy (co-founder and CEO of Sally Ride Science), by the ABC reporter who covered NASA during its transformation from a test-pilot boys’ club […]

(This is an excerpt from an article published on the Huffington Post by Lynn Sherr, author of the upcoming biography, Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space [Simon & Schuster, June 2014]). Astronaut Sally Ride didn’t deliver college commencement addresses. The first American woman in space — whose 1983 journey through the ultimate glass ceiling convinced millions that they, […]

What does a scientist look like? That was just one question asked Saturday of 25 local elementary and middle school teachers as part of a workshop by Sally Ride Science to help teachers encourage student interest in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and math. “A scientist is not just a crazy old white […]

By Julie Anderson / World-Herald staff writer Robots. Rockets. Raspberry Pi’s. They’re some of the tools educators, scientists and business people are using to spark children’s interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM. The idea is to hook them early — efforts have pushed as far down as prekindergarten — and keep them […]

(From ExxonMobil’s Perspectives blog; view post.) We talk a lot about education on this blog, so naturally our focus often turns to teachers. “Access to quality teachers is critical for all students,” Sara Martinez Tucker of the National Math & Science Initiative wrote in this space last year. “Exceptional teachers believe in us, keep us […]