Photo: Kim Jew Photography Mihaela Popa-Simil, LANL Foundation Vice President of Finance and Operations, is honored as one of Albuquerque Business First’s 2017 C-Suite finalists. Executives were nominated by the public and then asked to submit an application with information…

About 100 teachers were in attendance at the 7th annual ISEC Teachers’ Institute. Teachers new to Inquiry Science Education Consortium schools or those changing grades attend a four-day summer professional development that offers a deep dive into the investigative teaching…

Twelve Española high school and middle school students went back into the classroom this summer to learn new programming skills during an eight-week Full Stack Web Development Bootcamp hosted at Northern New Mexico College. This technical training was led by…

The LANL Foundation awarded 26 grants totaling $61,298 to support education and community programs in Northern New Mexico during the 2017 second-quarter grantmaking period. Sixteen programs received $37,000 in Education Outreach funding that directly supports K–12 public school children. An…

This article was written by the Albuquerque Journal about the Cultivating Coders program funded by the LANL Foundation as part of the K-12 Programming initiative. ABQ startup launches free coding summer camps Albuquerque Journal | By Kevin Robinson-Avila / Journal…

Santa Fe Reporter dug deeper into the benefits & challenges of adopting Next Generation Science Standards. We support NGSS for New Mexico students. Do you? NGSS in action is featured: Willow Gersh’s 4th grade class at El Camino Real Academy…

New Mexico Needs a Long-term Education Plan  New Mexico is in dire need of a plan for education. Somehow, we have become complacent about consistently ranking near the bottom in the nation. In 2017, New Mexico ranked 49th in Quality…

Photo: Courtesy of Quality New Mexico. L to R: Congressman Steve Pearce; QNM Board Chair Anne Kain (Del Norte Credit Union); Bill Wadt (Awardee); Andy Strobe (Don Chalmers Ford); Chair-Elect Alan Varela (US Eagle FCU); Summit Chair Steve Keene (Moss Adams)  LANL Foundation Celebrates…