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The GE Foundation, the philanthropic arm of GE, announces an $18 million grant to Student Achievement Partners, a nonprofit organization to provide critical implementation support for Common Core State Standards across the U.S. The four-year grant is the largest corporate commitment to date for the Common Core State Standards and reflects GE’s longstanding dedication to preparing American students for an increasingly competitive workforce.

In response to the lack of student interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), the White House has launched the Educate to Innovate campaign. There is also the National STEM Video Game Challenge, where kids learn STEM skills by designing games. GE has some experience experimenting with play and fun in an effort to attract young minds to science and engineering.

With the US customer still largely in the dark about the details of the upcoming lighting standards set to go into effect at the start of 2012, GE Lighting is teaching students at its Cleveland, Ohio GE Lighting Institute that although the savings are compelling on their own, the advantages of new LED lighting technology go far beyond mere efficiency advances.

GE Capital will join hundreds of Australia’s leading companies on 9 November for the 11th running of Sydney’s J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge at its traditional course in beautiful Centennial Park.

Discovering the delights of hands-on science and engineering, 24 rising seventh-graders from Lynn, Mass., spent a week in July at the MIT Edgerton Center, soldering electrical connections, creating lip balm, sewing wearable circuits, inventing ice cream makers and programming their own computer games. The GE Girls at MIT summer program, funded by General Electric (GE) and developed by members of the GE Women’s Network, the MIT Edgerton Center and the Lemelson-MIT Program, aimed to interest girls in science and technology, and ultimately increase the number of woman engineers.