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 preparing young women and all underrepresented, and under-resourced youth in urban, rural, and tribal communities 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 equitable access to broadband internet and promoting basic coding as a critical 21st century STEM skill needed to solve problems enunciated in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.”
"Today in the United States, government initiatives such as the Infrastructure and CHIPS Acts of 2022, coupled with forward-looking investments by thousands of large and small businesses, are generating amazing new job opportunities at all levels," says Golden. "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, be persistent, 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 Foundation is a corporate nonprofit that advocates for equitable access to STEM education and digital literacy as essential for attaining meaningful employment and becoming productive citizens in a technology driven society. The Foundation promotes basic coding as a critical 21st Century+ skill all young people need to be creative STEM problem solvers who think critically, communicate, collaborate, and will help realize the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.
Broadcom Inc. is a global technology leader that designs, develops, and supplies a broad range of semiconductor, enterprise software and security solutions. Solutions include service provider and enterprise networking and storage, mobile device and broadband connectivity, mainframe, cybersecurity, and private and hybrid cloud infrastructure.
