Meyer Memorial Trust has provided a $400,000 grant to Clark College for equipment, furnishing and educational materials for the college’s planned science, technology, engineering and mathematics building.
The college will break ground on a new public/private-financed STEM building in September. The more than 70,000 square-foot facility will house many of Clark’s STEM programs at its Vancouver campus. When it opens in fall 2016, the center will establish partnerships with industry and other educational institutions to explore new learning techniques.Economists project that there will be 18,700 STEM-related jobs in Southwest Washington by 2021.
