The Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering (TAME) is pleased to announce that longtime partner IBM has awarded $5,000 to support Texas teachers in science, technology, engineering and math. TAME educators have used IBM’s Teachers Try Science in putting together Family STEM Night activities, assembling TAME Club engineering challenges, and designing classroom curriculum. Thank you for […]
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Road Scholar Wanted: Now Hiring a Moving Educator
Are you ready to take your teaching career on the road? TAME is now hiring a third Trailblazer Facilitator to bring the excitement of STEM to students all across the state. Every year, our science-museums-on-wheels travel over 18,000 miles and engage over 20,000 students with electrifying hands-on exhibits. TAME is putting the call out to […]
American Honda Foundation Awards $50,000 to TAME for Family STEM Nights
The Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering (TAME) is proud to announce a new partnership with the American Honda Foundation, which has generously awarded $50,000 to empower Texan students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math. The contribution will support Family STEM Nights with the TAME Trailblazers, bringing an innovative, mobile STEM engagement program to students, […]
Stepping Up for STEM in Wichita Falls: Marcie Williford
Above, left: Marcie Williford takes students on a tour during a Young Engineer Summer Camp; above, right: Marcie collaborates with other engineers at Alcoa Howmet, which specializes in precision investment castings of superalloy, titanium and aluminum alloys for aerospace and industrial markets. “Every student’s success is good for the whole community. The influence of a successful […]
TAME Engineering Adventure: Building with Biomimicry
Above, left: a robotic hand from the ScienceBuddies.org project Grasping With Straws. Above, top middle: Muscles of the Hand and Wrist, by Elisa Shorn, circa 1900, shared with a Creative Commons License by Heidelberg University. Above, top right: a robotic flower from the Curiosity Machine project Build a Blooming Flower. Above, bottom right: Hibiscus at […]
IBM Awards Impact Grant to TAME
The presentation of a strategic planning report at TAME’s Board meeting today was the last piece of an IBM Impact Grant to TAME. The grant, valued at more than $55,000, was offered at a critical time in TAME’s growth and it will help direct TAME programs over the next 3 – 5 years. IBM has […]