Honda Awards $75,000 to Peninsula Education Foundation for NEW Elementary Schools STEM/ Engineering Program

Posted by Cheryl Ward , June 02, 2014 at 03:06 PM

Learning to “think like an engineer” will be highly prized in the future economy, and students in the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District will now get an earlier start.   A new STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) program will be rolled out to in elementary schools next school year thanks to a $75,000 grant from the American Honda Foundation secured by the Peninsula Education Foundation.   The new Elementary STEM program is a natural extension of the highly successful middle school STEM program, which the American Honda Foundation helped launch with $120,000 in previous grants.  STEM education at the elementary school level is essential for making engineering and technology programs accessible to a greater number of students, preparing them to continue on to the district’s middle school and high school STEM/ engineering program, which have become models of excellence.  CLICK HERE TO READ MORE