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Eliot-Hine Middle School faculty and staff attend a STEM Forward assembly on Dec. 5 with 10-time Olympic medal-winning swimmer Katie Ledecky (second from right), who sat with students (from left) Sebastian Rodriguez Garzon, Maiya Stover and Xaxier Iemus Reyes. (Marckell Williams/The Washington Informer)

Education, Local, Sports

Katie Ledecky Conducts STEM Presentation at Eliot-Hine Middle School

by Sam P.K. CollinsDecember 7, 2022December 7, 2022

World-renowned swimmer Katie Ledecky conveys messages about the importance of STEM through an education program she participates in as a Team Panasonic athlete.

Black Birders Week is Coming

by Jamila BeyMay 27, 2022May 27, 2022

Certified diver Andrea R. Williams, national vice president of the National Association of Black Scuba Divers (NABS), hangs coral reef fragments during a dive with the Coral Restoration Foundation Nursery in July 2019 in Key Largo, Fla. (Courtesy of Patti Kirk Gross)

Business, Education

Black Professional Scuba Divers Talk Up Ocean Careers

by Brenda C. SilerMarch 21, 2022March 24, 2022

**FILE** Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Leaders marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. In the front row, from left are: Whitney M. Young, Jr., Executive Director of the National Urban League; Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; A. Philip Randolph, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, American Federation of Labor (AFL), and a former vice president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO); Walter P. Reuther, President, United Auto Workers Union; and Arnold Aronson, Secretary of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)

STEM Coalition Celebrates Black History Month by Honoring Leaders

by WI Web EditorFebruary 1, 2022February 1, 2022

Black Experience, Education, Stacy M. Brown

Discovery Education Hosting Event to Celebrate Black Leaders in STEM

by WI Guest AuthorFebruary 14, 2021December 21, 2021

Education, Stacy M. Brown

Georgia HBCU Committed to Providing Pipeline of STEM Degree Students

by WI Guest AuthorJanuary 6, 2021December 21, 2021

**FILE** Courtesy of exelonstemacademy.org

Local

Exelon’s Innovation Leadership Academy Attracts 60 Teen Girls

by WI Guest AuthorAugust 14, 2020December 21, 2021

John Urschel

Former Football Star Helping Students, Teachers with Online STEM Lessons

by Stacy M. BrownJune 3, 2020December 21, 2021

Katherine Johnson

Julianne Malveaux, Op-Ed, Opinion

MALVEAUX: Sisters in STEM — Challenges and Triumphs

by WI Guest AuthorMarch 11, 2020December 21, 2021

Education, Stacy M. Brown

Blacks and STEM: The New Horizon for Youth and Entrepreneurs

by Stacy M. BrownFebruary 26, 2020December 21, 2021