Towards the end of September, students from undergraduates to PhDs will fill up a room in New York City, log onto their computers, and spend 24 hours creating potential solutions to the NBA’s most pressing analytics problems in the league’s second annual NBA Hackathon. The first hackathon in September 2016 was much smaller in scale. […]
Detroit Lions safety Don Carey is embracing a healthy combination of education and football. On Saturday, he hosted a day of football training camp and learning in the science, tech, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) fields at Martin Luther King, Jr. High School in Detroit. According to the Lions, the six-hour program benefited 250 students […]
For episode 17 of the SportTechie Podcast with Bram Weinstein, Jesse Lovejoy and current New York Jet Kelvin Beachum join Bram to discuss the innovative STEAM education project housed at the 49ers home, Levi’s Stadium. Plus, a robot brings kids in a KC children’s hospital directly to an MLS pitch, the latest on the innovative […]
The Atlanta Falcons are helping to encourage elementary and middle school kids to get involved in science, technology, engineering and math fields. The team partnered with Georgia Tech and the NCR Corporation to send Ricardo Allen, Justin Hardy, Falcons cheerleaders and its mascot to spend the day with students at the Hollis Innovation Academy in Atlanta […]
CITGO Petroleum Corporation and the Boston Red Sox are bringing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education to Fenway Park this year as they host two STEM days this season for Boston-area students to help their classroom STEM lessons come alive. CITGO will invite 500 elementary and middle school students to the STEM Days as […]
