About 400 elementary and middle school children from Richmond Public Schools went to the Siegel Center at Virginia Commonwealth University for “STEM in Sports Day” to test out, first-hand, Blast Motion technology, soccer balls with internal chips that track the velocity and spin, the Oculus Rift, Microsoft HoloLens and a litany of other modern sports […]
The San Francisco 49ers are the first professional sports organization to partner with Khan Academy, the world’s leading free online education platform. The online resources for students and teachers will help support the 49ers STEAM Education Program, which is in its third year of existence and provides learning opportunities across science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics. “Khan […]
John Urschel is continuing to inspire not only on the field, but in the classroom. The Baltimore Ravens Offensive Lineman is teaming up with Texas Instruments, the creator of all the graphing calculators you used in school. Together, they plan to introduce new sports related activities for the TI-84 Plus family of graphing calculators with […]
The 49ers have come a long way, technologically speaking, since the days of panning for gold in rushing streams. Today, the San Francisco NFL team has a particular interest in promoting STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education in the Bay Area. The organization launched the inaugural Football and STEM Academy summer camp this week, […]
The Denver Broncos have one of the more active STEM presences of any team in the NFL, apart from the Silicon Valley-based San Francisco 49ers. The reigning Super Bowl champions created a program called Tackle STEM, in conjunction with Arrow Electronics, which aims to cater towards the next generation of students whose interests might lie […]
