After President Donald Trump signed a computer science education memorandum on Sept. 25, IBM called for Congress to continue the push for better STEM education by renewing a bill to increase technical education standards. […]

President Donald Trump will sign a memorandum today to strengthen computer science education in schools, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced during a press briefing on Sept. 25. The memorandum will mandate that Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos provide $200 million per year in grants for science and technology education to strengthen STEM programs in schools, and to add computer science to the curriculum in K-12 schools.

Through its series of summer camps and competitions, the Air Force Association’s CyberPatriot program is aiming to expand the cybersecurity workforce for both the public and private sector. “What they have learned is if they wait until someone is a college graduate, it’s too late, if they wait until they’re in college, it’s too late,” said CyberPatriot National Commissioner Bernie Skoch.

While some technophobes may paint a picture of robots replacing teachers in the near future, nearly all technology experts agree that this is highly unlikely. Rather, artificial intelligence will just help teachers increase efficiency and improve their classroom management.

Calling all K-12 teachers, school administrators, and education IT pros! As planning for 2017 kicks into high gear, here are the ed tech conferences that should be on your calendar.

A New Jersey high school in September transformed a 20,000-square-foot auditorium known as “the pit” into the Marauder Innovation Learning Lab, a $3 million STEAM-focused extension of Mount Olive High School.

Montgomery County (Md.) Public Schools is cutting 15 full-time positions from the Department of Technology Integration and Support, which helps teachers learn to use technology in the classroom.

Some middle school teachers in Texas will be trained to teach computer science, under a new initiative announced by Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas.

Sprint announced the public schools that will participate in its 1Million Project pilot, a multiyear initiative from the Sprint Foundation to offer free mobile devices and free high-speed wireless Internet connectivity to 1 million low-income, U.S. high school students lacking a reliable source of Internet access at home.

The College Board is debuting the new Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles course this school year, which was designed to broaden participation in the study of computer science.