Los Alamos National Laboratory
Delivering science and technology to protect our nation and promote world stability
STEM Education
Los Alamos is committed to investing and partnering in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education initiatives and programs that have a positive impact on student achievement while addressing community pipeline and regional workforce needs.
April 16, 2020
Contacts
- Executive Office Director
- Kathy Keith
- Community Partnerships Office
- (505) 665-4400
- Education
- Janelle Vigil-Maestas
- Community Partnerships Office
- (505) 665-4329
Support of education matters because a substantial part of our workforce is drawn from Northern New Mexico.
Investing in the future
Los Alamos National Laboratory is committed to providing a positive and sustainable impact on our region by leveraging direct and indirect community investments in education. The success of the Laboratory and the region as a whole depends on a skilled workforce. To help produce better education outcomes for students, the Laboratory supports initiatives from elementary school through higher education, including robust teacher professional development initiatives
- Learn more about the STEM education programs we support for students
- Learn more about our teacher education programs
2019 Highlights
- The Laboratory’s Math and Science Academy (MSA) completed the second year of work with Pojoaque Valley School District and New Mexico Highlands University on the Regional Partnership School program
- 50 students in grades 6-8 took part in a free Mindset Math Summer Camp, co-ordinated by MSA
- 35 teachers and principals from 12 schools took part in 8 day-long professional learning sessions, one 2-day summer institute, and two cross-school collaboration sessions through the MSA’s Math Teacher Leader Network
- 339 employees volunteered 3,868 hours of time for 228 STEM education programs
- The Lab’s Bradbury Science Museum Summer Science on Wheels program reached 153 students and 4,043 students
- Free two-week Summer Physics Camp for Young Women for 22 high-schoolers from 14 schools in the region
- The Laboratory helped coordinate the inaugural New Mexico Governor’s STEM Challenge, with 65 schools and more than 600 students taking part
- 1,099 items including furniture and computer monitors with a replacement value of $325,630 were distributed through the Furniture Reuse Program to Northern New Mexico School Districts and pueblos
- 116 students from the region received $773,500 from the Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund (LAESF), while the 2019 fundraising campaign saw Lab employees raise $373,000 during the annual scholarship fund campaign