Month: February 2025

CHARLOTTE, N.C., February 13, 2025 /3BL/ – Discovery Education is offering a new suite of diverse digital resources supporting Engineers Week 2025 activities. Established in 1951, Engineers Week immerses students in the future of engineering and helps create pathways for students seeking engineering careers. Discovery Education is the creator of essential K-12 teaching and learning solutions.

Occurring February 16-22 and focusing on the theme “Design Your Future,” Engineers Week inspires student curiosity in engineering while showing how engineering changes the world. Discovery Education’s curated new collection of standards-aligned, high-quality resources includes:

The Engineering Channel: Available to users of Discovery Education Experience, the Engineering Channel offers diverse content segmented by grade band. From videos and quizzes to activities, reading passages, and more, there’s something for every student.Career Connect: Available to users of Discovery Education Experience, educators can invite an engineer to a virtual classroom visit through Career Connect. This new tool promotes student curiosity by connecting classroom learning to real-world applications and potential careers. Through Career Connect, educators request virtual classroom visits from industry professionals, selecting from an array of job types, industries, languages, and locations. Then, students meet directly with diverse industry professionals, such as engineers from ASME, Nucor, LydaHill Philanthropies, and more.Engineering Lessons: Available to users of Mystery Science by Discovery Education, this collection of engineering-focused lessons offers thought-provoking scenarios and accompanying activities. Mystery Science by Discovery Education is an engaging standards-aligned science curriculum for grades K-5 designed to help students stay curious.Career Videos: The STEM Careers Coalition offers a collection of career profile videos spotlighting engineering professionals in STEM. Students can easily make the link between classrooms and careers with the videos and accompanying lessons, activities, and hands-on student activations. The STEM Careers Coalition is an alliance of industries and non-profit organizations, reaching 11M+ students with equitable access to STEM resources and career connections since its launch in 2019. The Coalition will continue to ignite student curiosity and influence a diverse future workforce.Video Topic Series: Available from Engineering Dreams, a program with ASME, the video topic series explores how engineering helps solve real-world community challenges. The series also features companion activities and educator guides.

“Engineers Week provides an incredible opportunity to inspire curiosity and build student confidence about the many career pathways available in the field of engineering,” said Amy Nakamoto, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Alliances at Discovery Education. “These engineering-focused resources not only link classroom learning to the real world of engineering, but also empower students to envision themselves as problem solvers and innovators.”

For more information about Discovery Education’s award-winning digital resources and professional learning solutions, visit www.discoveryeducation.com, and stay connected with Discovery Education on social media through X, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.

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About Discovery Education 
Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art, K-12, digital solutions support learning wherever it takes place. Through award-winning multimedia content, instructional supports, innovative classroom tools, and strategic alliances, Discovery Education helps educators deliver powerful learning experiences that engage all students and support higher academic achievement on a global scale. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 million educators and 45 million students worldwide, and its resources are accessed in over 100 countries and territories. Through partnerships with districts, states, and trusted organizations, Discovery Education empowers teachers with essential edtech solutions that inspire curiosity, build confidence, and accelerate learning. Explore the future of education at www.discoveryeducation.com.

Contacts 
Grace Maliska 
Discovery Education 
Email: gmaliska@dicoveryed.com

This year, the world’s population will top 10 billion people—and finding new ways to sustainably produce food is a priority.

One option to meet increasing demand is alternative proteins—meat made from plants, cultivated from animal cells, or produced via fermentation.

Rockwell Automation is working with U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA)-approved alternative protein manufacturing facilities to help grow this emerging sector. The goal: create products that taste the same as conventional products yet cost the same or less to produce, reducing the draw on natural resources.

One of the biggest challenges facing alternative protein manufacturing facilities is taking a proven idea and scaling production—or going from growing a few cells at a bench-top to cultivating thousands of liters of cells for mass production.

A solid first step is having the right technology to collect, record, and analyze data early in the product development stage to allow for better testing and modeling using digital inputs.

Rockwell technology, including PlantPAx® modern distributor control system and model configuration using FactoryTalk® Batch software, is helping producers move from manually testing to automation. This means instead of testing hundreds of batches to see which product is the most effective, manufacturers can quickly find the product option that is the most nutritious, profitable, and repeatable—and therefore most likely to be successful—all while saving time and cost.

In the case of alternative protein production, the benefits of automation apply to every part of the manufacturing chain, starting at raw materials, through to processing, waste minimization, byproduct extraction, and even the packaging of the finished product.

Rockwell continues to refine solutions that use data intelligently and provide ongoing support that will help the alternative proteins sector to operate in a way that is compliant, efficient, and sustainable. The solutions expand beyond food.

Learn more about how a cultivated meat production facility used Rockwell solutions to automate its control system for its pilot alternative protein plant.

We are excited to launch our Early Careers 2025 Spring Learning Series.

We’re inviting students across North America to learn more about what it is like to work here, what potential career paths look like, how we enable students to learn then lead and to also hear from former interns about their experiences with us.

**These events are open to all students**

Part 1: Achieving Greater Together
Wednesday, March 12th, 2025, 12:00PM – 12:45PM CST

Part 2: Blast from the Past – Former Intern Panel
Wednesday, March 19th, 2025, 12:00PM – 12:45PM CST

Part 3: Explore #LifeAtNT
Wednesday, March 26th, 2025, 12:00PM – 12:45PM CST

Part 4: Redefining the FinTech Space
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025, 12:00PM – 12:45PM CST

Part 5: Insider Tips from a Recruiter
Wednesday, April 9th, 2025, 12:00PM – 12:45PM CST

Part 6: Blast from the Past – Former Intern Panel (in person event)
Wednesday, April 16th, 2025, 2:00PM – 4:00PM CST

Interested?

Learn more about each session here.

A topic that has come up many times at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos over recent years is the increasing fragmentation of our world — within societies and between nations. But, amid this division and disagreement, there is one hope that many still share: the belief that artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to significant progress across the globe.

From my work at a company that pioneers AI in business processes, I hold this hope too: AI has the potential to stimulate growth and make companies more productive. It can make economies more resilient by helping businesses navigate disruptions, whether through global trade crises, natural disasters, or regional conflicts.

AI can also play a critical role in our ability to achieve our sustainability goals, tackle climate change, and mitigate its impact. While many recognize AI’s positive potential, the growing fragmentation of our world greatly reduces our ability to take full advantage of the opportunities AI presents.

AI can only be as good as the data it can access and work with. The more restrictions, limitations, and political borders we impose on it, the less positive impact AI can have in our countries and companies. AI can’t thrive in a fragmented world. This is what I call the AI progress challenge.

Tackling the AI Progress Challenge, Step by Step

Finding solutions to something as vast and as complex as global fragmentation requires us to divide the problem into smaller, individual challenges that are easier to overcome. How can we make AI a stronger tool for progress? How can we navigate the AI progress challenge step by step?

1. Begin at company-level

It starts on our doorsteps — at the level of the individual company. Cloud migration is an integral first step. The cloud makes data accessible for AI, systematically and comprehensively, and cloud solutions can easily — even automatically — be kept up to date with the latest AI innovations. What is more, integrated cloud software offers a standardized environment for data and processes. It makes it easier for companies to keep their data structured, clean, and coherent across the company — and consequently easier for AI applications to use.

2. Create an industrial ecosystem

The second step toward maximizing the potential of AI is to bring individual companies together in an industrial ecosystem. To become more productive, resilient, and sustainable, companies need to exchange information with suppliers — sometimes thousands of them — as well as with their clients and innovation partners. In the age of business AI, the need to build intelligent business networks is more important than ever. The more broadly and widely data can be shared between companies, the better and more impactful AI outcomes can be. The whole ecosystem profits in terms of added competitiveness and innovation power.

3. Build international frameworks

The third step is to build international frameworks that allow AI innovation to thrive in a responsible way. Governments and regulators can reduce unnecessary barriers to the exchange of data within countries and between countries. In cooperation with industry, public actors can also work towards aligning and harmonizing technological regulations wherever possible, especially between the key economic powers of North America, China, and Europe.

At the same time, we must build trust. Lack of trust is perhaps the greatest driver of global fragmentation — and the biggest obstacle to collaboration. By joining forces, international companies can agree on common rules for data usage, data privacy, and responsible, ethical AI. Such “confederations of trust” encourage more frequent data sharing.

Putting the AI Puzzle Together

The cloud, business networks, and a more harmonized global environment based on trust; each of these steps reduces fragmentation and increases federation. And, each of these steps can help the organizations involved reap much greater benefits from AI.

It’s like putting together a 10,000-piece puzzle. It’s not easy to start with and it’s not something that can be accomplished in one go, but if we begin by putting a handful of pieces into place, the big picture gradually emerges. As the degree of federation increases, progress accelerates.

It’s on us to put the AI puzzle together and reduce fragmentation, one step at a time. This is how we maximize the potential of AI — not just for some, but for many.

Christian Klein is CEO of SAP SE.