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Bayer to Host Stem Education Diversity Forum for Business Leaders on the West Coast
Virtualization.sys.com--BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bayer Corporation will host a STEM Education Diversity Forum in December, the second such forum the company has held in the last three years. (STEM = science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
The purpose of the forum is to encourage and help business executives from the various STEM industries - biotechnology, information technology, engineering and beyond - to get involved and support STEM education programs in order to build a strong and diverse national STEM pipeline, the feeder for our future workforce.
The forum, part of Bayer's award-winning Making Science Make Sense(R) initiative, will be held on Thursday, December 11, 2008, at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco. Bayer is holding the forum as a public service; there is no charge to attend.
Titled "Bridging the Diversity Gap: Introducing STEM Industries to K-12 Best Practice Programs," the forum is an outgrowth of a recent survey commissioned by Bayer Corporation. The survey found wide agreement among the Fortune 1000 STEM CEOs polled that they and their companies have a responsibility to support pre-college, STEM-education programs that are developing the next generation of innovators, particularly those who have traditionally been underrepresented in STEM.
Thus, the forum will showcase for these executives an array of best practice elementary and secondary education programs that are helping all students - especially girls, African-Americans, American Indians and Hispanics - achieve in STEM subjects.