The SportTechie Podcast with Bram Weinstein: Episode 17 – Examining The 49ers...
For episode 17 of the SportTechie Podcast with Bram Weinstein, Jesse Lovejoy and current New York Jet Kelvin Beachum join Bram to discuss the innovative STEAM education project housed at the 49ers...
View ArticleDetroit Lions’ Don Carey Hosts STEAM Day, Football Camp
Detroit Lions safety Don Carey is embracing a healthy combination of education and football. On Saturday, he hosted a day of football training camp and learning in the science, tech, engineering, arts...
View ArticleNBA Hackathon Adds Business Analytics Track To Student Competition
Towards the end of September, students from undergraduates to PhDs will fill up a room in New York City, log onto their computers, and spend 24 hours creating potential solutions to the NBA’s most...
View ArticleStudents Across Nation Join Together To Build Wearable Fitness Trackers
On Wednesday, youth around the world will participate in 4‑H National Youth Science Day, the world’s largest hands-on engineering challenge. Schoolchildren will be working together to design, build and...
View Article#SportsInSTEM Series: Applying Sports to Science, Technology, Engineering,...
“If you want to convince more students to participate or stay in STEM programs, introduce them to interesting, fun applications like sports and see how they respond.” – NI.com In recent years, the...
View Article#SportsInSTEM Series: Bringing Technology to March Madness
This post is the second installment of our #SportsInSTEM Series, which explores, demonstrates, and illuminates how sports serves as a vehicle to train and enlighten students of all ages in pursuing...
View Article#SportsInSTEM Series: Virtual Swimming Analysis System
This post is the third installment of our #SportsInSTEM Series, which explores, demonstrates, and illuminates how sport serves as a vehicle to train and enlighten students of all ages in pursuing...
View Article#SportsInSTEM Series: Pitch Pressure Analysis and Logging System
This post is the fourth installment of our #SportsInSTEM Series, which explores, demonstrates, and illuminates how sport serves as a vehicle to train and enlighten students of all ages in pursuing...
View Article#SportsInSTEM Series: The Attleboro 94Fifty Project
This post is the fifth installment of our #SportsInSTEM Series, which explores, demonstrates, and illuminates how sport serves as a vehicle to train and enlighten students of all ages in pursuing...
View Article#SportsInSTEM Series: The QB Eye Direction Tracking Helmet
The QB Eye Direction Tracking Helmet built by four Georgia Tech Engineering Students This post is the sixth installment of our #SportsInSTEM Series, which explores, demonstrates, and illuminates how...
View Article#SportsInSTEM Series: Arizona Science of Baseball Program
The latest class of Arizona Science of Baseball teachers (photo courtesy of Ricardo Valerdi). This post is the seventh installment of our #SportsInSTEM Series, which explores, demonstrates, and...
View Article#SportsInSTEM Series: NBA Math Hoops App
This post is the eighth installment of our #SportsInSTEM Series, which explores, demonstrates, and illuminates how sport serves as a vehicle to train and enlighten students of all ages in pursuing...
View Article#SportsInSTEM Series: Robotic Lifting Partner
This post is the ninth installment of our #SportsInSTEM Series, which explores, demonstrates, and illuminates how sport serves as a vehicle to train and enlighten students of all ages in pursuing...
View ArticleDiamondbacks Will Host 14,000 Students for Science of Baseball and STEM Showcase
As part of a Science of Baseball and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Showcase, the Arizona Diamondbacks will welcome 14,000 Arizona students and their families to their game tomorrow...
View ArticleScience of Sport and Blast Motion to Partner for STEM Education
We’ve all heard it before from kids. That same tired, old, sentence about not going to school to learn. Maybe the topics in school are boring for them and it really is unfortunate but in an effort to...
View Article#SportsInSTEM Series: The San Francisco 49ers Have a Hub for STEM Education...
This post is the tenth installment of our #SportsInSTEM Series, which explores, demonstrates, and illuminates how sport serves as a vehicle to train and enlighten students of all ages in pursuing...
View ArticleSporting KC Partners With Engineering Company To Launch STEM Program
Proper education is just as crucial to serving society as it is to personal achievement. Success in this country is generally tied to education, even in the case of professional athletes. It’s...
View ArticleDriving STEM Education Through Sports At Richmond International Raceway
The following is a guest post written by Dr. Tim Lampe, Senior Associate Athletic Director and Adjunct Professor for the Center for Sport Leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University. This spring,...
View ArticlePersado Plus A Baltimore Raven And Mathematician Equals Modern Marketing Lessons
Storytelling equals marketing. This equation is unquestionably true as E = mc2. Yet, marketers don’t have to be Albert Einstein to realize that they need to add math to this formula, especially...
View ArticleTorrey Smith Adds STEM Education To Multi-Sport Camp
Torrey Smith has never been your typical NFL wide receiver. A month after winning Super Bowl XLVII, he went to intern with Rep. Elijah Cummings for the month of March 2013 when most of his teammates...
View ArticleCoby’s Coding Camp Shows The Power Of Athletes In STEM Education
In the NFL’s off-season, players make their way all around the country – whether it’s back to their hometown or in the team’s local area – running training camps to advertise and develop the game....
View ArticleOakland A’s Have Little Leaguers Learn About STEM Education
In the middle of a long MLB season, there’s lessons to be learned and applied. The ebbs and flows that transpire are invariably a part of the game. A winning streak can quickly become a losing streak...
View ArticleSloane Stephens Is Using Tennis To Promote STEM Education
Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) and the U.S Tennis Association’s charitable Foundation, has launched a public service announcement with famous tennis star Sloane Stephens to promote STEM in Tennis. STEM...
View Article49ers STEM Education Program Partners With Silicon Valley Robotics Company
The San Fransisco 49ers Museum recently announced an educational partnership with Wonder Workshop, a robotics company from Silicon Valley. This partnership will allow the 49ers Science, Technology,...
View ArticleEA Sports And NFLPA Team Up To Support Math And Science Teaching
In a new partnership announcement EA Sports, the NFL Players Association (NFLPA), and Discovery Education are teaming up to provide a national educational program for students in grades 5 – 9. EA...
View ArticleBoston Celtics Inspire Students To Score With New Education Opportunities
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), a global learning company, and the Boston Celtics launched their second online math challenge for New England schools. The program called SCORE with Go Math! Academy...
View ArticleTexas A&M Hosts Design Contest To Solve Sports Problems With Tech
Students at Texas A&M are getting a crash course in the world of sports tech startups. The Aggies are hosting a 48-hour, school-wide design competition this month. It is called the Aggies Invent,...
View ArticleSports Technology Providing A Much More Engaging Learning Opportunity For...
VX Sport, a sport wearable technology company, is teaming up with schools in New Zealand to provide interactive content for teachers and students in the classroom. According to Scoop, the New Zealand...
View ArticleThis San Mateo School Is Taking Educational Field Trips To Levi’s Stadium To...
Children formally learn subjects like science and mathematics in the classroom, where abstract concepts can often be difficult to grasp. However, educators recognize the immense value in building a...
View ArticleDenver Broncos Created A Program Called Tackle STEM To Create The Next...
The Denver Broncos have one of the more active STEM presences of any team in the NFL, apart from the Silicon Valley-based San Francisco 49ers. The reigning Super Bowl champions created a program called...
View ArticleSan Francisco 49ers Launch Football And STEM Summer Camp
The 49ers have come a long way, technologically speaking, since the days of panning for gold in rushing streams. Today, the San Francisco NFL team has a particular interest in promoting STEM (science,...
View ArticleTexas Instruments And Baltimore Ravens Lineman Launch STEM Behind Sports Program
John Urschel is continuing to inspire not only on the field, but in the classroom. The Baltimore Ravens Offensive Lineman is teaming up with Texas Instruments, the creator of all the graphing...
View ArticleSan Francisco 49ers First Pro Sports Organization To Partner With Khan Academy
The San Francisco 49ers are the first professional sports organization to partner with Khan Academy, the world’s leading free online education platform. The online resources for students and teachers...
View ArticleVCU Holds STEM In Sports Event For Schoolchildren On Merits Of Sports...
About 400 elementary and middle school children from Richmond Public Schools went to the Siegel Center at Virginia Commonwealth University for “STEM in Sports Day” to test out, first-hand, Blast Motion...
View ArticleBoston Red Sox Promote STEM Education By Hosting STEM Days At Fenway Park
CITGO Petroleum Corporation and the Boston Red Sox are bringing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education to Fenway Park this year as they host two STEM days this season for...
View ArticleAtlanta Falcons Team Up With Local School To Help Teach Students About STEM
The Atlanta Falcons are helping to encourage elementary and middle school kids to get involved in science, technology, engineering and math fields. The team partnered with Georgia Tech and the NCR...
View ArticleLA Galaxy Help Students Connect Soccer With Science And Math
The LA Galaxy and Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) gave 250 middle school students across Los Angeles the opportunity to participate last month in an exclusive curriculum called LA Galaxy STEAM...
View ArticleBoston Celtics, GE Foundation Launch STEM Lab For Middle Schoolers
The Boston Celtics and GE Foundation are joining forces to launch a new “Brilliant Career Play” mobile STEM Lab focused on enhancing access to STEM experiences and training for Massachusetts public...
View ArticleWhy The Denver Broncos’ Casey Kreiter Wears STEM-Inspired Cleats
This past Sunday, when players across the NFL wore cleats dedicated to an individual cause they supported for the “My Cause My Cleats” campaign, Denver Broncos long snapper Casey Kreiter took a...
View ArticleBrooklyn Nets’ Jarrett Allen, 4-H Educate Kids On STEM, Wearables
Brooklyn Nets rookie Jarrett Allen enjoys tech about as much as he enjoys dunking. His passion for technological innovation has found him teaming up with 4-H, an organization that educates and mentors...
View Article49ers, Chelsea FC Collaborate On STEAM Event In London
The NFL’s San Francisco 49ers and the English Premier League’s Chelsea Football Club are partnering through their community-focused subsidiaries to bring STEAM education to London next month. The free,...
View ArticleBeyond Innovation: Using Sport to Advance STEM Education
Beyond Sport’s Nick Keller and the 49ers Jesse Lovejoy join Bram to discuss Beyond Innovation, an interactive gathering taking place in Silicon Valley next week. The event will explore better methods...
View ArticleThe Overlap Between STEM Education and Esports
Colleges across the country are adopting varsity esports programs, and in places without a school-sanctioned initiative, nearly every university has a gaming club. These teams compete in collegiate...
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