New Mexico Science Teachers’ Association (NMSTA) has taken a leadership role to offer a series of regional workshops devoted solely to new science standards in our state. On Saturday, February 9, 8:30 am – 4:00 pm, a workshop was held…
LANL Foundation Congratulates Gwen Perea Warniment on Her Position within PED Gwen Perea Warniment, Ph.D. was selected by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to serve as Deputy Secretary for Teaching & Learning under Secretary of Education Karen Trujillo. The Public Education…
Scholarship Program Manager Mike Ammerman, Program Associate Sarah Gissinger, Vice President of Advancement & Scholarship Tony Fox New Staff to Lead Northern New Mexico’s Largest Scholarship Program LANL Foundation welcomes two new staff members to its scholarship program. Mike Ammerman…
Partnerships, Policy & Promise As an education partner and advocate, the nonprofit Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Foundation has hosted STEM Day at the New Mexico Legislature to showcase programs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. This year, recognizing the…
19 Northern New Mexico Students Receive $28,500 in Scholarships. The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Foundation recently awarded $1,500 Scholarships to 19 nontraditional students from Northern New Mexico. Regional College/Returning Student (RCRS) Scholarships support individuals seeking a certification or two-year…
Teachers may be drawn to their profession for many different reasons, but when asked why they stay, they’d probably give a similar response. Passion for their students and guiding their learning keeps the bests educators coming back to the classroom…
More than 350 schools and community sites hosted Hour of Code learning events in New Mexico during national Computer Science Education Week, held December 3–7, 2018. New Mexico TechWorks and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) connected local volunteers with classrooms throughout…
If you think that engineering can only be learned in upper grade levels, think again! Inquiry STEM activities designed for early childhood set the stage for further learning in language development and science practices, including basic engineering concepts. The ISEC…
During the 2018 fall semester, the LANL Foundation K–12 Program team answered calls for support related to New Mexico’s newly adopted version of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). NM STEM Ready Standards raise the level of rigor and…
When you walk into Maxine Ortiz’s science classroom at Hernandez Elementary School in the Española Valley Public School District, you see posters on the walls, charts of collected data, experiential materials neatly on display, tabletops with results from ongoing experiments,…