Google has joined the U.S. President Obama challenge to train 100,000 high-quality science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) teachers in 10 years.

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The community of action called 100Kin10 that officially kicked off past week has 80 partner organizations, all contributing to a threefold mission: to reverse the United States’ decades-long decline in STEM subjects, to ensure that all children have the basic STEM literacy and to enable U.S. students to address the most pressing national and global challenges.

After sharing its plan with U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan in April, Google now launched its own web site Google in Education to become one of the founding members of 100Kin 10.

Google’s contribution to the project includes working with The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT to create a high-profile recognition program for the top 5% of STEM teachers. Google invites districts nationwide to join its efforts for talent academies that will facilitate and fund HR pilot strategies for education. The technology giant also works with university faculty training future teachers throughout California to integrate educational technology across curriculum and scale the practice by funding research on the topic. It has already established the Google Faculty Institute this August and funded nine pilots across the state.

“We believe every student should have access to high quality teaching and educational opportunity. We also recognize that as a collective, we can better measure our progress and take significant strides toward fulfilling the commitments the Department of Education has made around STEM teaching,” wrote Jordan Bookey, Manager, K-12 Education Outreach Team on Google official blogspot.

Earlier this year, Google and The Associated Press announced a new scholarship program for the U.S. student journalists.