A high school in Bristol, Tenn., will receive grant funding from the Tennessee Valley Authority to offer STEM programs to students. The school plans to use the funds for a training program for the robotics club's members and other students how to work with Arduino computer sensors, which have applications in chemistry, physics, biology and agriculture.

Tooele County School District students in Utah had an out-of-this-world experience when they interviewed astronaut Mike Barratt aboard the International Space Station during the eclipse on Monday. Facilitated by the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station program, the event showcased students' enthusiasm for STEM and radio technology.

Middle-school students from Mattoon, Ill., stepped outside to experience the solar eclipse firsthand after a series of lessons and activities that prepared them for the event, and will continue to explore the topic in class, says teacher Cayla Duckett. Some of Duckett's students are also participating in a district effort to share the experience by donating their eclipse glasses to people in Latin America, who are due to experience an eclipse later this year.

Eric Loeb of Salesforce looks at ways the tech industry can move closer to gender equality, including preventing gender bias in AI use. Promoting skills training for women and programs such as IBM's STEM for Girls can open career pathways and equal opportunity, Loeb writes.

MIT researchers took a page from traffic congestion solutions and developed a deep-learning model to manage warehouse robotic traffic. Hundreds of warehouse robots are reprogrammed every few seconds to change their tasks and avoid collisions, so the researchers developed a system to divide robots into smaller groups that can be managed more quickly.

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has joined counterparts in Washington, New York and Philadelphia in using AI tools to monitor bus stops and bus lanes. The creator of the system, Hayden AI, is also working with LYT, a maker of intelligent traffic solutions, to marry the two systems to produce green lights for buses with minimal effects on overall traffic.

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