By: KXAN News, Austin Business Journal | Read it >
A nearly $3 million grant from the Texas Education Agency is helping expand STEM educational access to Texas students statewide.
Since 2020, Learning Undefeated has operated a mobile STEM lab that travels around Texas to bring hands-on learning opportunities to students. With the one mobile STEM lab, Learning Undefeated serves approximately 30 schools each year; following the grant award, the organization will expand its fleet to nine mobile labs, allowing connections with hundreds of schools annually.
Janeé Pelletier, Learning Undefeated’s chief marketing officer, said hundreds of teachers request visits from the mobile labs. Now, she said the organization will be able to meet more of that demand and offer robust STEM learning for students in kindergarten through eighth grade.
Our partners at KXAN have more on the effort here.
The news comes at a time when Austin is struggling to fill advanced manufacturing jobs and other STEM-oriented careers. Companies such as Samsung, Tesla and all their suppliers have increasingly been targeting high school students as prospective workers.
