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    Teachers from among 20 schools in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles gathered the week of June 24 to learn techniques for incorporating hands-on activities related to science, technology, engineering and math. In this photo they are learning about how water flows within a watershed.

    Corps collaborates on teacher training to help promote STEM

    LOS ANGELES — Teachers from among 20 schools in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles gathered recently to learn techniques for incorporating hands-on activities related to science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, in their classrooms.
  • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., -- University of New Mexico civil engineering student Corey Bowen (right) and Corina Chavez, civil engineer, pause for a moment while discussing a design project, July 8, 2013. Bowen spent eight weeks this summer as the District’s first STEM intern through a partnership with UNM and assisted with several on-going design projects in the District’s General Engineering Section.

    Albuquerque District offers STEM Internship

    People use acronyms and abbreviations such as NASA or FBI because they are less clumsy and easier to write and remember than the complete expression they represent. One of the newest acronyms gaining mainstream usage is STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.
  • Water safety volunteer Pam VanderWeele shows a classroom of students the proper way to fit and fasten a life jacket.

    Retired teacher volunteers to educate children about water safety

    With the spirit of a lifelong educator, retired schoolteacher Pam VanderWeele has shown the reach and impact that U.S. Army Corps of Engineers volunteers can have on communities and people.As a water safety volunteer at Lake Texoma this summer, VanderWeele visited 17 elementary schools surrounding the lake in Texas and Oklahoma, giving presentations to more than 2,000 students in the third through fifth grades.
  • Boy scouts look on as Bill Rutlin, regulatory specialist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District, explains wetland functions using an interactive model at the 2013 Summerfest, hosted by the Coastal Empire Council Boy Scouts of America.

    USACE talks STEM at Boy Scouts Summerfest

    SAVANNAH, Ga. - A group of 275 scouts representing seven states explored potential career paths in STEM - science, technology, engineering and mathematics - during the annual Coastal Empire Council Boy Scouts of America Summerfest, July 22. Members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District staffed an exhibit at Summerfest demonstrating the functions of wetlands and the importance of regulating them.
  • COCHITI LAKE, N.M., -- Two of the visiting water managers stop to appreciate the kiva in front of the Cochiti Lake project office, July 3, 2013.

    Middle East Meets West: The Ebb and Flow of International Water Management

    COCHITI LAKE, N.M.-- The Cochiti Project office, Albuquerque District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, had the honor of hosting Water Managers from various countries in the Middle East on July 3. The visiting managers represented the countries of Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Oman, the Palestinian Territories, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Yemen. This opportunity was made possible through the International Visitor Leadership Program, a program set up through the U.S. Department of State.