Boeing Gifts $1 Million to STEM NOLA Innovation Hub

The facility will include classrooms, meeting spaces and laboratories to give kids hands-on exposure to science and technology-based career paths.

Amy Wilder

Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at 02:14 PM ET

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The Boeing Company announced Monday that it would invest $1 million in the New Orleans-based STEM NOLA Innovation Hub. [Courtesy: STEM NOLA]

Key Takeaways:

The Boeing Company is investing $1 million in New Orleans-based STEM NOLA to support the construction of its state-of-the-art STEM Innovation Hub.
This investment will fund a 40,000-square-foot building designed to give K-12 students hands-on exposure to science and technology-based career paths.
STEM NOLA, a nonprofit founded in 2013, provides science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and resources to children in New Orleans.
Boeing's support aims to propel the aerospace industry forward by fostering future generations of aerospace leaders and innovators through STEM education.

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On Monday, The Boeing Company announced that it would invest $1 million in the New Orleans-based educational program STEM NOLA, “to support the construction of the organization’s state-of-the-art STEM Innovation Hub.”

The investment will help fund a 40,000-square-foot building that will become the STEM NOLA organization’s Innovation Hub, and will include classrooms, meeting spaces and laboratories to give kids hands-on exposure to science and technology-based career paths. Boeing employs approximately 1,100 people in the state of Louisiana.