STEM

Students from all around the world are here in Dallas this week showing off their skills in the STEM arena. NBC 5’s Wayne Carter highlights robotics champions and more in this week’s Highlighter.

The Perot Museum celebrates Children’s Day and invites you and your family to celebrate at the museum on April 30th. The event is completely free with several activities dedicated to learning and fun.

Schools across North Texas count on outside companies to come to campus and help students have hands-on science labs. 

Mobile hands-on science labs filled with computers, TVs and robotic equipment to spark young minds are now a target for thieves. NBC 5 education reporter Wayne Carter reports North Texas kids are paying the price.

STEM, Science Technology Engineering and Math, is a hot area in the educational world right now. NBC 5 Vince Sims talks with Dr. Tonjia Grimble talks about her efforts to expose youth to different fields in STEM using robots and even bringing a robotics competition to North Texas. More: StemItUpSports.com

At the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo, you expect to see cowboys wrangling cattle. You probably don’t expect to see 4-H students wrangling robots.

Parents and Guardians, NBC 5, Telemundo 39, BNSF Railway Co., and the National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum would like to invite your high school-age teens, grades 9 – 12 to the 24th Annual Technology Awareness Day and Technology and College Fair, Saturday, February 11 from 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. on the campus of BNSF Railway.

Be captivated! Be entertained and be inspired at the Denton Black Film Festival! Attend this exciting showcase of film, cinema, music, spoken word, art and more in-person January 25 through 29 in Denton, TX. The festival continues with a virtual component January 29 through February 6.

The University of North Texas is helping rural communities connect to STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — education through local radio broadcasts called “Raise Up Radio.”

NBC 5 and The Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary want you to let your imagination run wild as you travel back in time at the 16th Annual Dinosaurs Live! Life-Size Animatronic Dinosaurs exhibit. From September 3, 2022 through February 20, 2023, visitors to The Heard in McKinney, Texas will walk along a half-mile nature trail feat...

A fourth grader at Jim Spradley Elementary in Frisco is encouraging kids to share with an app she invented called “Toy Share.”

Most supercomputers are so big, that they fill warehouses. The one built by computer science students at Southern Methodist University fits on the edge of a desk.

A new exhibit at the Fort Worth Zoo aims to inspire young girls to pursue STEM careers by highlighting the science behind caring for animals.