Gliders? Gravity cruisers? Steel-can rovers? A large group of Chicago students is making these contraptions and more during a three-week program aimed at growing their enthusiasm for STEM.

East Bay NSBE Jr. member, Myron Evans, awarded first ever Boule $10,000 Scholarship!

The crowd was at capacity last night in Atlanta at the SEEK parent orientation. 

The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation and the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) today announced a partnership to establish 20 new VEX Robotics Competition teams through NSBE’s Pre-College Initiative (PCI) program to encourage interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics as academic subjects and as future career paths.

As I progressed and learned more about piano technology, I never aspired to; I just knew how to do it. I would say, ‘Piano is what I know, drums is who I am.’ As I went out there and toured with different acts, did a bunch of Broadway shows and got a little tired of the road, I learned how to tune, rebuild and restore pianos. I would take these pianos down to the nuts and bolts and build them back up just for fun, just for a hobby.

Meet the 2014- 2015 National and Professional Executive Boards! 

For more than 15 years, Dr. Reid has been a leading advocate for increasing college access and opportunity for low-income and minority youth.

African-Americans in the tech industry still seem to be relatively few and far between, but Business Insider put together a our of some of the most accomplished African-Americans in the industry.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/important-blacks-in-technology-2014-4?op=1#ixzz30I4uZJA2

Engineering has always been a perfect fit for Mary A. Simmons, allowing her to use her organizational and problem-solving skills to arrive at innovative solutions to complex problems.

Makita Phillips, NSBE’s National Leadership Institute chair for 2013–14, looks for ways to keep things cool in a hot area of STEM research. A mechanical engineering Ph.D. candidate at North Carolina State University, she works with a multidisciplinary team, in the Materials Science and Engineering department, to detect and avoid “quench behavior” in superconductors.