article_snippet: The pledges the president announced include a $150million philanthropic effort to encourage promising early-career scientists to stay on track and a $90million campaign to expand STEM opportunities to underrepresented youth, such as minorities and girls.
article_snippet: Altogether, the new STEM commitments have brought total financial and material support for these programs to $1billion. '
article_snippet: More than 100 colleges and universities have committed to training 20,000 engineers, and a coalition of CEOs has promised to expand high-quality STEM education programs to an additional 1.5million students this year.
highlights_snippet: he later announced $240million pledge to boost study of science and tech .