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3 Years In, Math Initiative Creates a Path from Newark High Schools to NJIT

Friday, May 6, 2022
Three years in, NJIT’s Math Success Initiative continues to grow in participation and results.

NJIT Receives $800,000 PSEG Grant to Expand STEM Career Pathways

Tuesday, May 3, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has received an $800,000 PSEG Foundation grant that will soon expand access to STEM degrees and careers for local Newark...

NJIT's Second Elementary STEM Challenge Conquered by 30 Local Schools

Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Wise Wolves, a team of fifth-graders from Morristown's Unity Charter School, won this year's Elementary STEM Challenge at an awards ceremony in the Campus Center ballroom on Monday.

Students Prototype 3D Printed Bridge Competition

Monday, December 13, 2021
Civil engineering students from NJIT, Princeton, Stevens Institute of Technology, and three area high schools competed in a 3D-printed bridge competition at NJIT’s Makerspace that saw NJIT students taking home a first place prize in the “Stiffest...

NJIT STEM Leadership Forum Inspires Educators to Bring 'Cutting-Edge STEM' into Classrooms

Friday, October 22, 2021
With students back in classrooms this fall, educators and superintendents across New Jersey were once again welcomed back to NJIT’s campus to network and discuss fresh ways they can enrich hands-on STEM learning in their schools at the university...
NJIT Forensic Science Students

$1.4 Million Federal Grant Launches NJIT Forensic Science Initiative

Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Federal funding supporting New Jersey’s “Opportunity Meets Innovation” higher education challenge will introduce Newark high school students to forensic science as a...
Five graduates of the STEM Innovation Academy will attend NJIT in the fall.

STEM Innovation Academy Graduates Coming to NJIT

Monday, July 12, 2021
The inaugural class at the STEM Innovation Academy of the Oranges held a graduation ceremony on June 25 at the NJIT Campus Center, capping four years of cooperation between Orange Public Schools and NJIT's Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP)...

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...