With many high school students lacking access to key STEM classes, Caltech and other technology-focused institutions are exploring admissions alternatives. Among the thousands of applications to the ...

With relatively few high schoolers taking physics, few go on to major in physics in college, which limits the supply of physics teachers, which, in turn, limits the number of students who can take a ...

May 6—JENNIFER BANEY'S physics classroom at Bedford High School is a laboratory of learning. Her students ask lots of questions, try all sorts of things that might work and solve problems in groups.

Through a partnership with United Cerebral Palsy, high school juniors and seniors taking an applied physics and design course at two Philadelphia-area schools work to identify and solve everyday ...

Her physics problem for the competition focused on quantum mechanics. All three students credit McWatters for his time, patience, and dedication to their team and to the competition.

Caltech is dropping requirements for high school calculus, chemistry and physics courses for students without access to them and will offer other ways to demonstrate knowledge in those fields.

Gates, president of the American Physical Society and a 2013 winner of the National Medal of Science, said it is nationwide problem that not enough high school students take physics or upper-level ...

Within that big problem, the dearth of physics is alarming. Only 20 percent of our high school students take physics. Nationwide, 40 percent do. The STEM economy requires high-school physics.

Upland High School physics students, from left, Leo Rodriguez, 17; Jillian Bock, 16; and Kaitlyn Pardo, 16; secure weights on their trebuchet before a Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, launch on Trebuchet Day.

JENNIFER BANEY’S physics classroom at Bedford High School is a laboratory of learning. Her students ask lots of questions, try all sorts of things that might work and solve problems ...

Her physics problem for the competition focused on quantum mechanics. All three students credit McWatters for his time, patience, and dedication to their team and to the competition.