CNET – Carrie Mihalcik
” A leading education group has attracted some big names to help it in its mission to get more youngsters involved in tech. Nearly 50 organizations — including Girls Who Code, Harvard and the Smithsonian Science Education Center — partnered Wednesday with 100Kin10, a group fostering science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. The group wants to train 100,000 STEM teachers by the year 2021, a goal President Barack Obama touched on during his 2011 State of the Union address. 100Kin10 now has more than 280 partners, including tech heavy hitters Google and Intel, as well as The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.”(more)