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Alamo Wing, 502nd OSS support Youth Aerospace Expo
November 26, 2019 — Local youths were celebrated as future aviators and STEM innovators at the Youth Aerospace Expo at the Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Kelly Field Annex Nov. 16.... MORE

Navy Medicine commands host San Antonio educators for STEM tour
July 25, 2019 — The Navy Medicine Training Support Center cohosted Bexar County educators for a tour of the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston July 15. ... MORE

STEM students visit 433rd Airlift Wing
July 16, 2019 — Fourteen students with the San Antonio Chapter of Tuskegee Airmen Inc.’s Youth Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics-Aviation Program visited the 433rd Airlift Wing at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland July 12.... MORE

Joint Base San Antonio libraries more than shelves of books
May 2, 2019 — Children who visit the Joint Base San Antoniolibraries are learning more than how to read. The library of decades ago has evolved into a special place where service members, veterans and families can do more than check out a book.... MORE

Mobile exhibit at San Antonio Spurs game highlights Army technology, aims to boost recruiting
March 27, 2019 — The Army Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, or STEM, mobile exhibit was on site March 20 at the AT&T Center in San Antonio for the Spurs' Military Appreciation Night. ... MORE

JBSA, Lackland ISD promotes STEM programs
February 28, 2019 — Col. Robert W. Trayers Jr., Air Force Recruiting Service vice commander, and Lt. Col. Steven Lamb, 502nd Installation Support Group vice commander, viewed two of Lackland Independent School District’s award-winning science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs Feb. 13, 2019, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas.... MORE

Baskin Elementary students attend Starbase Kelly
November 14, 2018 — Eighteen Mildred Baskin Elementary school students visited Starbase Kelly at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Nov. 5. The Starbase Kelly team taught the students some basic concepts about aircraft and flight before the children toured a C-5M Super Galaxy.... MORE

Youth volunteers spend summer at BAMC
August 14, 2018 — The Brooke Army Medical Center Youth Volunteer Program kept 100 volunteers busy this summer, resulting in this year being the largest group so far. Each year, BAMC partners with the American Red Cross for this unique program, which spread volunteer opportunities across 18 departments in BAMC including the outlying clinics. ... MORE

Naval Medical Research Unit-San Antonio hosts Alamo STEM educators visit to Navy Research Lab
July 2, 2018 — Scientists at the Naval Medical Research Unit-San Antonio at the San Antonio Military Medical Center campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston hosted 10 high school chemistry and health professions educators for a laboratory tour and “meet the scientists” career path discussion June 27. ... MORE

Naval Oceanographic Office Inspires Next Generation to Pursue STEM Careers at Navy Week San Antonio
February 26, 2018 — Military and civilian personnel from the Naval Oceanographic Office, or NAVOCEANO, visited over 600 students across San Antonio at Navy Week, Feb. 19-23, to discuss their careers in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, fields. ... MORE

Sailors talk STEM careers at local chamber expo
November 13, 2017 — Sailors from Navy Recruiting District San Antonio spoke to schoolchildren about STEM-related careers and put on scientific demonstrations during the 8th Annual San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce CORE4 STEM Expo at the Freeman Expo Hall in San Antonio Nov. 7-8.... MORE

USAISR scientists engage middle school students at STEM club
November 3, 2017 — Stefanie Shiels, Ph.D., a staff scientist at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, believes that school students have to be exposed to STEM, or science, technology, engineering and mathematics, at a young age – regardless of the time of day – even if it means at 6 o’clock in the morning. ... MORE

San Antonio Sailors helping change the world through STEM
October 5, 2017 — “Changing the world through STEM” was the theme of the 2017 Hispanic Engineering, Science, and Technology, or HESTEC, Week held on the campus of the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley Oct. 2-7. ... MORE

24th Air Force hosts annual Civil Air Patrol training program
July 1, 2017 — More than 80 Civil Air Patrol cadets and adult members attended the 2017 Cyber Defense Training Academy June 11-17 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, setting a new participation record for the joint 24th Air Force-Civil Air Patrol program.... MORE

Navy Medicine instructors conduct STEM tour for high school students
March 9, 2017 — Students from a local high school toured several parts of the Medical Education and Training Campus, or METC, on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston March 2 as part of an ongoing partnership with Navy Medicine Training Support Center, or NMTSC.... MORE

Navy recruiters pique interests of students during STEM Expo
November 9, 2016 — In a continuing effort to spread Navy awareness of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, opportunities throughout South Texas, recruiters of Navy Recruiting District San Antonio participated in the city’s annual Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s CORE4 STEM Expo at the Freeman Expo Hall Nov. 1-2.... MORE