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Here Comes the Sun: NJ Elementary Students Turn Solar Engineers at NJIT's eSTEM Competition

Thursday, April 22, 2021
NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs and Newark College of Engineering this month introduced their first-ever STEM competition for New Jersey’s elementary school students — the eSTEM Competition.

Former NASA Astronaut Bernard Harris Joins NJIT Forum on Post-COVID STEM Learning

Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Bernard Harris speaking at STEM forum in 2018

Former Astronaut and CEO of National Initiative to Reimagine STEM Education at NJIT Forum 

Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr., CEO of the National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) and the first African-American astronaut to complete a space walk, will reimagine STEM education at NJIT’s annual STEM School...

Math Success Initiative Celebrates First Graduates, Some to Attend NJIT

Monday, July 20, 2020
Last summer 35 11th-graders from four Newark high schools — Central, Malcolm X Shabazz, Science Park and Technology — participated in a seven-week enrichment program as part of the inaugural...
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Summertime Look Back: The Events That Elevated the NJIT Campus

Monday, July 13, 2020
Although quiet this year due to the pandemic, summer has traditionally been a busy time at NJIT. In this first of a six-part series, we look back at some of the many happenings over the past three summers that bolstered and brightened the...
Volunteerism: helping hands

Scholarship Recipients are Winners in Community Service

Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Volunteerism continues to be part of the foundation of NJIT. In 2019 alone, the university’s students contributed more than 67,000 hours of community service and gave their time to over 300 community-based organizations.

TSA-TEAMS Competition Challenges Pre-College Students in Engineering

Monday, March 2, 2020
On Monday, March 16, 2020, NJIT will make science competitive yet fun when it hosts the Technology Student Association’s Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science (TSA-TEAMS)....

Science Olympiad Spotlights STEM Know-how of More Than 700 Pre-College Students

Thursday, January 23, 2020
They came, they competed and, at day’s end, they convened, to learn the results of the 2020 New Jersey Science Olympiad, hosted on campus Jan. 6 by NJIT for the 14th consecutive year.
NJIT's Center for Pre-College Programs received federal funding for its Upward Bound program.

Grant Will Help Support Greater Number of Local Pre-College Students

Thursday, January 2, 2020
Since 1924, Victoria Foundation has awarded more than $300 million in grants to benefit Newark.
Boomilever competition at the 2019 Science Olympiad

Annual State Science Olympiad for Pre-College Students Hosted Again by NJIT

Wednesday, December 18, 2019
For the 14th year in a row, NJIT will host the New Jersey Science Olympiad (NJSO). The university expects upward of 700 middle and high school students on campus Jan. 6, 2020, (snow date...