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Top STEM Programs for Girls

Career in STEM

“We need to encourage and support girls and women achieve their full potential as scientific researchers and innovators.” From after-school programs to online communities to access to scholarships, there are plenty of sources to help girls of all ages get the support and inspiration they need to succeed in science and STEM.

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From a Week of Computer Science to A Year of Possibilities

STEM Next

This year’s theme, Celebrating Success, highlights achievements over the past 10 years. . These include lessons that don’t need access to computers from You for Youth. What we especially appreciate is how Family Creative Learning puts relationships at the center of its coding programs and designs with equity and access in mind.

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Cyber security for the AI age

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Cyber security company BlackBerry reports that the healthcare and financial services are those most frequently targeted, as both hold large volumes of sensitive personal information that can be hijacked by criminals to hold these services at ransom. Embrace the rapidly changing technological landscape.

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Creating software that works for everyone

Futurum

However, as we become ever-more reliant on software, ensuring it is accessible for all of society is a growing necessity. ACCESSIBLE — can be obtained easily and used by everyone. A lot of existing software is not accessible to certain demographics, which raises issues for equity and inclusion. TALK LIKE A SOFTWARE ENGINEER.

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Building relationships with top state leaders in New York

STEMx

Such meetings also can spread the word about STEM achievements to significant state officials. Hard work pays off, and when you are achieving the results that our Empire State STEM Learning Network leaders have over the past 5-plus years, people cannot help but pay attention. And communicating that hard work is equally important.

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

Given a defined “goal”, an AI can automatically work towards achieving it. Most of our existing intuition about “machinery” and “automation” comes from a kind of “clockwork” view of engineering—in which we specifically build systems component by component to achieve objectives we want. And that’s where we humans come in.

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