Broadcom Foundation to Sponsor Four National STEM Programs in 2024/2025
Program Highlights
Multiracial school kids students making robotic cars using tablet computer. Diverse junior children pupils building robot vehicle learning at table at STEM code ai engineering science education class.
To elevate the importance of workforce preparedness throughout the United States, Broadcom Foundation has expanded its leadership role in national programs that will inspire thousands of young people from all walks of life to become digitally literate, STEM-minded citizens who practice critical thinking and creativity in their lives as future technologists, engineers, scientists, and innovators.
During the 2024/2025 cycle, Broadcom Foundation will be sponsoring four nationally ranked programs: the National STEM Festival and the Congressional App Challenge in Washington DC, the 2025 Convention of the Association of Science & Technology Centers (ASTC) in San Francisco and soon-to-be-announced Coolest Projects North America hosted by the Raspberry Pi Foundation that is slated to take place in the Mid-West.
“It is our intention to focus the public on the importance of digital and AI literacy as critical 21st Century+ skills that all young people need to compete for highly skilled jobs of emerging industries built on technologies of the future,” said Paula Golden, President of the Broadcom Foundation. “These high-profile national programs will help elevate Broadcom Foundation’s goals of ensuring access to broadband internet in urban, rural, and tribal communities opening doors to learn basic coding and AI, STEM skills needed to solve problems enunciated in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.”
"Kids today can secure exciting jobs in emerging industries that rely on technology where a college degree may not be a requirement and where apprenticeships and on-the-job training may be available. Community colleges are burgeoning with new courses that enable students as well as returning adults to develop the digital skills needed for well-paying local jobs. Universities are partnering with local colleges to create accessible tracks to higher education for those who wish it. The bottom line is that it is a new day for preparing our future workforce."
Why these four programs?
Each of these programs brings something special to the Broadcom Foundation mission and goals. The National STEM Festival creates a unique platform to celebrate Broadcom Coding with Commitment® because many projects enable students to apply basic coding with STEM learning to solve a problem that they care about and aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. The Congressional App Challenge is an amazing opportunity for young people to share development of solutions through coding, and incorporates not only STEM, but math, music and art in exciting ways, thus reaching a broad swatch of young people and their contemporary online interests. Student entry into the Festival and Challenge is free and they create forums in the nation’s capital to provide policy makers with critical insight into the fresh ideas our nation’s youth are bringing to solve the grand challenges of today.
Two Male Students Building And Programing Robot Vehicle In After School Computer Coding Class
In 2025, Coolest Projects North America will inspire young people of all ages to share their coding projects with youth who have not yet been exposed to coding through a hands-on exhibition. Digital literacy is important for communicating, acquiring an education, finding meaningful employment, and being a citizen in modern society and coding enables young people to become creative STEM problem-solvers who can think critically, communicate, collaborate, and become experts in the digital world.
Lastly, the ASTC Convention will bring together the premier science museums in the high-tech epicenter of the Bay Area where Broadcom Foundation’s parent company, Broadcom Inc. has its world headquarters. The Convention will focus on the importance of out of school spaces to drive forward-looking pedagogy in STEM and help elevate awareness about science and technology to parents as well as students.
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Broadcom Inc. is a technology leader that designs, develops, and supplies semiconductors and infrastructure software for global organizations’ complex, mission-critical needs. Broadcom combines long-term R&D investment with superb execution to deliver the best technology, at scale. Broadcom is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.
Broadcom Foundation advocates basic coding and AI literacy as 21st Century+ skills to solve community problems that students care about that align with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Broadcom Foundation promotes digital literacy as the confident use of the full range of digital technologies, including basic knowledge of coding and AI, and provides a catalyst for students to learn basic coding and AI as essential problem-solving tools in STEM.
