The plan says she would support school STEAM opportunities, coding and computer science, and girls' STEM participation.
Support local schools in expanding STEAM, coding, and computer science programs and encourage girls to pursue STEM education.
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GovInfo lists S.1602 as a 119th Congress bill reported in the Senate on March 11, 2026. It identifies Margaret Wood Hassan as a sponsor and describes the bill as coordinating federal R&D to modernize STEM education through mathematical and statistical modeling, data-driven and computational thinking, project and performance-based learning, interdisciplinary exploration, and career connections.
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Hassan's office announced a $575,000 U.S. Department of Education grant for New Hampshire career pathways work with school districts in Conway, Hinsdale, Laconia, and Manchester. The release says Hassan wrote a support letter and that the initiative would expand school districts' capacity for career pathways, including paid internships, industry-recognized credentials, and STEM career opportunities.
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Hassan materially supported related STEM education activity while serving as U.S. senator: her office backed a Department of Education grant that reached New Hampshire school districts and included STEM career opportunities, and she sponsored S.1602 in the 119th Congress to modernize K-12 STEM education with computational and data-driven learning components. However, the record does not show broad fulfillment of the full promise to expand local STEAM, coding, and computer science programs and specifically encourage girls in STEM, and the main current legislative vehicle had advanced from committee but was not enacted. This supports partial credit rather than full delivery.