Grant to provide science, technology, engineering and mathematics education

March 13, 2012 at 2:54p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN — An $8.4 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense will allow a Youngstown company to provide science, technology, engineering and mathematics [STEM] education to students at 1,000 high schools over the next four years.

Applied Systems & Technology Transfer [AST2], a technical and management consulting company for the defense, energy and environmental markets, will initially select 10 schools, most in northeast Ohio, in April for the first phase of the program, said Jack Scott, the company’s president.

This is part of a Department of Defense program that seeks to encourage high school students to be innovative and creative through activities that will make them interested in new manufacturing careers and “foster the next generation of innovators,” Scott said.

The students will design and manufacture electro-mechanical systems such as mobile robots, and ground and air vehicles.

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