THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF STEM
The First Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program (STEM) in the United States.
In October of 1987, while teaching at School 14 in Troy, Beverly P. Schwartz created a collaborative program with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to help bring the New York State Science syllabus to students in her third-grade class through demonstrations, hands-on lessons, individual projects, and field trips to RPI. Originally called Learn Tech, in 1990, Ms. Schwartz renamed the program Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). After the initial launch in the third-grade classroom, the program was disseminated to other classrooms of School 14. As a result, Ms. Schwartz earned the 1990 Christa McAuliffe Award for New York. The STEM program was filmed by NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, narrated by Ann Curry, and presented by Jane Pauley on November 27, 1990.
The first Quarterly published in February, 1992. Details creation of STEM program by Beverly Schwartz, encouraging others to get involved.
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Creation of STEM as a not-for-profit organization in 1992. Allowed STEM to acquire funding. Legally "engineering" could not be used in the corporate name STEM. However, engineering was part of the name as seen in the Quarterly above.
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