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A coali­tion of edu­ca­tors, sci­en­tists, engi­neers, and phil­an­thropies announced the launch­ing of National Lab Day. A new grass­roots ini­tia­tive designed to rein­vig­o­rate sci­ence and math edu­ca­tion in the nation’s schools and after-school pro­grams which will is hoped to ulti­mately lead to increased U.S. com­pet­i­tive­ness.
The goal of the ini­tia­tive is to improve the qual­ity of Sci­ence, tech­nol­ogy, engi­neer­ing, and math (STEM) edu­ca­tion in Amer­ica. A col­lab­o­ra­tion between the gov­ern­ment and more than 200 public-and pri­vate sec­tor orga­ni­za­tions, National Lab Day will con­nect stu­dents in grades 6–12 to hands-on learn­ing expe­ri­ences and pro­mote tin­ker­ing in lab­o­ra­tory set­tings. National Lab Day is a New York-based edu­ca­tion orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cated to improv­ing sci­ence and math edu­ca­tion nation­wide. National Lab Day wel­comes new part­ner­ships and can be reached at info@nationallabday.org. For fur­ther details on the National Lab Day ini­tia­tive please see the fol­low­ing link to the National Lab Day Orga­ni­za­tion web­site. http://www.nationallabday.org/