(San Antonio, TX) – The 31st annual State STEM Competition for the Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering (TAME) was sponsored by Boeing and held at the Texas A&M University-San Antonio campus on Saturday, April 30, 2016. The event, offered free of cost to participants, brought together 283 high-achieving students from across Texas, who traveled 7,174 […]
Harnessing Brain Power in Odessa
TAME Teacher and Alumnus Jeff Vann helps a student at UTPB Academy learn to use power tools in a class engineering project. “I remember being in school and feeling like there was a stigma on the smart kids. Even now, kids feel like it’s not okay to be the smart kid in the class, or […]
Former TAME Student Becomes International Champion of STEM Education
Katrieva Jones Monroe, standing center, goes over the lesson on designing a computer flight simulator at her 2010 Educators with a Purpose day camp. Photo by Tim Fischer/Midland Reporter-Telegram. TAME Alumna: “TAME really built me. They gave me a solid foundation. For the first time in my life, I saw where I could fit in. […]
Janice Trees, What’s the Buzz About San Angelo TAME?
Pictured above (from left): computer science educator Brian Beck, TAME Chapter Coordinator Janice Trees, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts educator Beckah Coleman, and 4H parent volunteer Annette Guerrero. “It’s great that we can get our students involved. They’re needed. We don’t want to lose our kids to the big city. We’d like them to […]
Teacher’s View: Why Does Dixie Ross Love TAME?
“My former student brought along a note that I had written twenty years earlier listing everyone who had signed up for our field trip…until [then], I had no idea of the impact this TAME field trip had on those kids.Now, they’re all thriving professionals who feel a responsibility to pay forward the opportunity that they […]
