ATE is Advanced Technological Education. With an emphasis on two-year colleges, the National Science Foundation's ATE program focuses on the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy.

ISACA Virtual Conference

Conference

February 19 Online

Join the ISACA Virtual Conference on February 19, 2025 where innovation meets insight. Dive into a world of cutting-edge discussions on AI, emerging technologies and digital transformation across APAC, Americas and EMEA. With diverse sessions and workshops tailored to each region, you’ll gain invaluable risk, security, and privacy knowledge while earning up to 19.5 CPE credits.

Tailor your learning experience to fit your schedule with the flexibility of the virtual format. Gain knowledge that impacts your specific region as well as broader international perspectives. Whether you’re looking to address regional challenges or explore global innovations, this conference will provide the platform to broaden your understanding and expand your professional knowledge.


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NCyTE Monthly Webinar: Cloud Computing Security and AI

Meeting

February 21 Online

Join the NCyTE Monthly Meeting!

Cloud Computing Security and AI
February 21, 2025, 9:00 am PST | Virtual

What are the AI risks in cloud computing? What standards and risk mitigation has Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) developed and implemented for cloud services within CSA and industry? What other CSA AI/Cybersecurity resources are available to academia and students?

Jim Reavis, Co-founder & CEO, Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), will answer some of the most perplexing questions at the intersection of AI and cloud computing. Register to attend.


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ATE Project Talks: Generative AI Tools for Personalized Learning, and Flow Cytometry

Webinar

February 21 Online

Welcome to the 2025 InnovATEBIO series of virtual ATE project talks.  This series features leaders in biotechnology workforce education from across the US sharing their work on exciting projects funded by the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program.  The ATE program supports the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy.

Talk 1:  Generative AI Tools for Personalized Learning

NexLAB, introduced on Feb 7, features Generative AI tools for personalized learning known as PAT (Personalized Academic Tutor) and PILOT (Personalized Instructor and Learning Optimization Toolbox). PAT utilizes Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with large language models such as ChatGPT and Gemini to extract content from various sources like PDFs, text, and PowerPoint files. This enables educators to develop tailored AI tutors for students to enhance their understanding of curriculum material. Within NexLAB, PILOT allows students to create quizzes and study guides based on the content provided by PAT. Furthermore, tools are being created to monitor students' interactions with PAT and PILOT to provide unobtrusive assessment and feedback on the efficacy of the curriculum material. Examples of initial versions of PAT and PILOT as part of NexLAB will be demonstrated in this session.

Speakers:  Dylan Bulseco, PhD, PI, Sr. VP of R&D, Institute for Future Intelligence, Boston, MA, Aarman Jamiluddin, intern,  Institute for Future Intelligence

Talk 2:  Cell Therapy and Flow Cytometry

This project focuses on the development of courses in cell therapy and flow cytommetry.

Speaker:  Dr. Savita Prabhakar, PI, Frederick Community College, Frederick, MD


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CCPI-Cast: A Model Program for Enhancing Community College Student Employability

Webinar

February 21 Online

Join this webcast from Community College Presidents Initiative - STEM (CCPI STEM) to learn about A Model Program for Enhancing Community College Student Employability.


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MCC Aerial Drone Competition

Student Event

February 22 Newfolden, MN

The Northern Freese are excited to host a competition for the 2024-2025 season. Welcome to the first MCC Aerial Drone Competition!

Specific Details: 

  • Doors open at 8:00 am CST
  • Safety glasses are required
  • We will accept paper copies of log books only to be submitted at Team Check-in

Grade Level: All
Skills Challenge Offered: Yes
Judging Format: All In-Person Judging


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"Girls Can, Too!" Multimeter Lab

Student Event

February 22 Georgetown, KY

Join this Spring Saturday Workshop from "Girls Can, Too!" on the Multimeter Lab. This event is free to attend, you only need to supply transportation. All communication about the event will occur through email. Information with directions, parking, and safety information will be sent the week of the event.


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Data Foundations for MBD - Virtual

Workshop

February 24 Online

This program explains MBD best practices and defines the role of data foundations and standards for MBD within a company. This course is appropriate for IT and Engineering Professionals responsible for establishing MBD standards and practices at a company.

Program outline

  • Background and business principles that characterize I4.0 model-based definition organizations
  • Review the principles of structured data, unstructured data, cloud storage, on-premise storage and edge computing
  • Systems architecture required for model-based definition organizations – hardware and software
  • Data lifecycle for model-based definition organization data
  • Managing operations using data at the application level, process level, department level and organizational level

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SIGCSE TS 2025: Leading the Transformation

Conference

February 26 Pittsburgh, PA

The Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS) is organized by the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) and is the organization’s flagship conference. The SIGCSE Technical Symposium addresses problems common among educators working to develop, implement and/or evaluate computing programs, curricula, and courses. The symposium provides a forum for sharing new ideas for syllabi, laboratories, and other elements of teaching and pedagogy, at all levels of instruction. The symposium provides a diverse selection of technical sessions and opportunities for learning and interaction.

SIGCSE TS 2025 will be held from February 26 - March 01, 2025, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. SIGCSE TS 2025 will be primarily an in-person conference, though there will be limited online participation options.


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NCPN CONNECT 2025 National Career Pathways Network

Conference

February 26 Austin, TX

For over 30 years, the NCPN Connect Conference has been dedicated to strengthening the education-to-careers pipeline through Career Pathways, Adult Career Pathways, career and technical education (CTE), and workforce development initiatives.

The world of work is changing at a breakneck pace. Skills are evolving so rapidly that students, businesses, and communities are struggling to keep up. CORD’s Framework for Career Pathways Alignment provides an organizing structure for educators, employers and community partners to design career pathways that support students to completion. The four program strands for NCPN CONNECT 2025 sessions are aligned to the components of CORD’s Framework.

  • Pathway Ecosystems
  • Employer Engagement
  • Pathway Design
  • Learner Supports

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Educational Resource Spotlight Series with CLEAN

Webinar

February 26 Online

The first webinar in the EARTh Center "Educational Resource Spotlight" series is highlighting the Collection of climate literacy tools and resources that the Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) hosts and how educators can utilize these tools in their classroom.

CLEAN's primary effort is to steward the collection of climate and energy science educational resources and to support a community of professionals committed to improving climate and energy literacy. 

The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) Portal was launched in 2010 as a National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Pathways project. It is led by the science education expertise of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder and the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College. As of 2012, CLEAN has been syndicated to NOAA's climate.gov portal.

CLEAN team members Katie Boyd and Gina Fiorile-Desranleau will walk us through ways to utilize the CLEAN Collection, how to join the CLEAN network for educators, and other opportunities from CLEAN. 

Registration Required.


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VEX MN State Championship 2025

Student Event

February 27 St. Cloud, MN

VEX MN exists under the Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation. REC brings this exciting experience to students all over the globe through the VEX IQ Challenge, VEX Robotics Competition, and VEX U. VEX MN is the largest state program in the country. It is under the leadership of St. Cloud Technical and Community College and several central Minnesota industry partners.

Coordinating with the REC Foundation, VEX MN plans and organizes various events in Minnesota. These events include: 

  • tournaments
  • camps
  • coach workshops AND
  • event partner summit.

VEX MN and SCTCC also plans and organizes the State Championship. Winners of the State Championship participate in World Competition.


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Energy Education Cross-Curricular Integration into Core Content Areas Webinar

Webinar

February 27 Online

Join the webinar on Energy Education Cross-Curricular Integration into Core Content Areas from CREATE as a part of their Spring 2025 Innovation Webinar Series!

The past four years, CREATE has sponsored the Call for Innovative Ideas, highlighting the outstanding work faculty have done to integrate technology, engage students with industry-relevant tools, and create student-centered, hands-on courses. This year they are excited to announce their line up of Innovation presentations. These webinars are 30 minutes and showcase the amazing work being done by energy educators across the nation.


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USC Spatial Sciences Institute Annual Los Angeles Geospatial Summit

Summit

February 28 Los Angeles, CA

USC Spatial Sciences Institute invites students, young professionals, and industry leaders in the geospatial industry to gain insights on GIS trends and to network at the 2025 Los Angeles Geospatial Summit.

The 2025 Los Angeles Geospatial Summit taking place at the USC Hotel on Friday, February 28, 2025, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. PST.


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ATE Projects and Centers





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Advanced Manufacturing Technologies topics include:

  • Additive manufacturing
  • Automotive manufacturing
  • General manufacturing
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Agricultural and Environmental Technologies topics include:

  • Agriculture and aquaculture
  • Environmental technologies
  • Natural resources
  • Nuclear power
  • Solar energy
  • Wind power
Bio/Chem

Bio and Chemical Technologies topics include:

  • Biotechnology
  • Chemical and process technologies
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Engineering Technologies topics include:

  • Electronics and controls
  • General engineering
  • Marine technologies
  • Materials technologies
  • Optics
  • Space technologies
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General Advanced Technological Education topics include:

  • Evaluation
  • Learning research
  • Recruitment
  • Teacher preparation
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Information and Security Technologies topics include:

  • Geospatial technologies
  • Information and communications technologies
  • Logistics
  • Security, information assurance, and forensics
Nano

Micro and Nanotechnologies topics include:

  • MEMS
  • Microsystems
  • Semiconductors
 
Screenshot for ATE Impacts 2024-2025

The ATE Impacts book, published every two years by Internet Scout Research Group, showcases all of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) centers and selected nominated projects. The NSF ATE program focuses on the education of highly-qualified science and engineering technicians for advanced technology fields. Through the program's grant process, the NSF promotes the improvement of STEM education of science and engineering technicians at the undergraduate and secondary school levels, and in the workforce.

This 2024-2025 Impacts book provides data on the NSF ATE program, a foreword by NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan, an introduction, and summaries of the activities and accomplishments of 24 ATE centers and 36 projects. Website addresses are included for all of the centers and projects. A map is also included that provides geographic location information that is intended to help connect educators, employers, and students with the ATE...


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Screenshot for Futurelab+: Genentech Science Ed Biotech Courses: Agricultural Biotechnology

These free, online Agricultural Biotechnology course materials from Futurelab+ make up a 36-week course that investigates "the amazing ways that living organisms can be harnessed to improve agriculture processes and redefine a healthier relationship with the natural environment." The course consists of four units, each featuring an introductory video, various lessons with lab elements, core labs, and projects. Each lesson and lab has a downloadable instructor's guide with student worksheets. Along with lesson content, the instructor's guides include pedagogical framing, national learning standards met by the lesson, and more. Editable versions of the student materials are available in both English and Spanish. Additionally, each unit includes a pacing guide, lesson flowchart, and lab materials. The units are as follows:

  • Solution Seeking Microbes
  • Alternative Proteins
  • Plant to Pharmaceutical
  • Community Science

The Futurelab+ biomedicine course, which this course builds on, is...


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Screenshot for ATE Student Success Stories: Emily's Story (Series 3)

This video from the Internet Scout Research Group is part of a series that highlights student success stories related to advanced technological education (ATE) programs. In this video, Emily Mackzum discusses her experiences with Northwest Arkansas Community College's Integrated Design program and how it prepared her for working in fabrication. Mackzum discusses her career path and her current position as a lead fabricator for a company that repurposes old bike frames. Funding for the program from the National Science Foundation (NSF) is also explored.

The video runs 4:45 minutes in length.


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Screenshot for ATE Student Success Stories: Sam's Story (Series 3)

This video from the Internet Scout Research Group is part of a series that highlights student success stories related to advanced technological education (ATE) programs. In this video, Sam Martinich discusses his experiences with Central Wyoming College's geospatial information systems and technologies (GIST) program. Topics covered include Sam's career path and journey to Central Wyoming College, the impact of the program on his life, and his work collecting climate data. Funding for the program from the National Science Foundation (NSF) is also explored.

The video runs 5:38 minutes in length.


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Screenshot for Virtual Reality: Educational Program for Developing Business Communication Skills in Manufacturing Technician Education

This Android application from Purdue University provides a simulation of the work that advanced manufacturing technicians perform, including details on the work that they perform in automation and data exchange. The simulation is composed of five sections, including an introduction and four sequential storylines. In the simulation, learners role play as a novice technician at a manufacturing company that produces printed paper products. The simulation helps learners develop skills in communication, problem-solving, working in a diverse workplace, and more. A VR headset is required to run the application. Installation instructions are provided in the downloadable ZIP file alongside an Android Package and four Android Opaque Binary Blob files. 


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Active ATE Centers 19
Active ATE Projects 297
ATE Resources 6,749
   
New Projects/Centers 60
New Resources 101

ATE Resources by Subject Area

ATE Events by Subject Area

 

Register: 2025 S-STEM Scholars Meeting

The 2025 S-STEM Scholars Meeting is calling for exhibitors to join this exciting event in October! This is an excellent opportunity to connect with over 1,000 students from diverse STEM disciplines. Exhibitors will have the chance to showcase their work, network with emerging scholars, and make a lasting impact on the future of STEM education.

To secure a spot, complete the interest form by May 31.

For more details on exhibiting, including opportunities and benefits, check out the exhibitor prospectus. Don’t miss this chance to be a part of an impactful gathering!


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Upcoming Event: 2025 Innovations Conference

The League for Innovation in the Community College is excited to announce the 2025 Innovations Conference, taking place from March 9-12 in San Antonio, Texas, at the Grand Hyatt San Antonio River Walk. Hosted by Alamo Colleges District, this 28th annual event is the premier gathering for community college professionals focused on enhancing teaching, leadership, and student success.

The conference features keynote speakers, over 100 breakout sessions, and a Solutions Center showcasing the latest in higher education products and services. This international conference is a unique opportunity to collaborate, exchange ideas, and explore programs shaping the future of community colleges.

Find out more and register on the League's website.


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New Video: World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs

A new video from the Centre for the New Economy and Society (CNES) highlights the growing challenge of skills gaps as a barrier to business transformation. The CNES 2025 Future of Jobs Report reveals how evolving skills demands are slowing industry progress and creating pressures for both workers and employers.

The video, from the World Economic Forum, explores how skills shortages are reshaping industries, the new roles emerging, and the fastest-growing job sectors. It offers insights for workers on how to adapt and succeed in this rapidly changing landscape.

Watch the full video on the World Economic Forum to understand how skills gaps are transforming careers globally.


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Data from NSF National Training, Education, and Workforce Survey Pilot Now Available

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has released the first-ever data from the National Training, Education, and Workforce Survey (NTEWS) Pilot, focusing on the skilled technical workforce. This new, nationally representative survey sheds light on individuals in technical occupations that require specialized knowledge and skills, but not a bachelor’s degree. The data highlights work-related credentials such as vocational certificates, occupational licenses, and industry-recognized certifications, and explores their impact on employment outcomes.

The survey, which covers individuals aged 16 to 75 and excludes high school students, aims to expand understanding of the U.S. workforce. The data tables from the 2022 pilot are marked as experimental, offering valuable insights while informing future data collection efforts. However, users are encouraged to consider potential limitations in the quality of these preliminary statistics.

Explore the data tables on the NSF Website.


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