Octavia Spencer, who won an Oscar for her performance in The Help, will star opposite Taraji P. Henson in Hidden Figures, a period race drama being directed by Ted Melfi. The Fox 2000 project tells the true story of a group of black women whose brilliance in math helped NASA find its early success with […]
A spunky and vibrant 10-year-old from the UK has inspired many with her math skills and her journey as a college freshman. Esther Okade from…
It’s Indiana’s largest post second school of learning. It’s Ivy Tech Community College with over 200,000 students in 75 locations across the Hoosier State. Ivy Tech is a school not just for 17-19 ya year olds who just graduated from high school, but increasingly its a school for adults to get the skills they need […]
For the second year the City of Indianapolis is sponsoring a competition among most of the city’s high schools and many middle schools to encourage more young people to enter STEM (Science/Technology/Engineering/Math) Careers. It’s the 2nd annual Indy VEC Vex Robotics Championships held at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Teams from 44 high schools and 40 middle […]
UPDATED: How Did Black Students Do On This Year’s ISTEP Tests? Find Out Here! Good News and Bad News
UPDATED WITH LINK TO STATE ISTEP DATABASE & REACTION OF STATE SUPT. DR. TONY BENNETT: African-American public school students in Indianapolis/Marion County continue to improve their performance in the annual ISTEP tests conducted for third through eighth graders in Indiana’s schools. The annual analysis of 2012 ISTEP data by Praise Indy.com and The Indianapolis Recorder […]
