Broadcom Foundation

Broadcom Foundation is a Newport Beach, California-based public-benefit nonprofit corporation that provides funding to support organizations that promote education in the academic disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).[1] The foundation also supports science fairs and competitions in conjunction with Washington, DC-based Society for Science & the Public, including Broadcom MASTERS, a national science competition for U.S. middle school students, and its international counterpart, Broadcom MASTERS International.[2]

Broadcom Foundation
Formation2009
TypePublic-benefit nonprofit corporation
HeadquartersIrvine, California, U.S.
ServicesFunding for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and programs
President
Paula Golden
Websitebroadcomfoundation.org

The foundation is independent of its namesake, Broadcom Corporation, the subsidiary of Broadcom Inc. (formerly Avago).[3]

History

The foundation was founded in 2009 as a non-profit corporation with an initial $50M investment from Irvine, California-based semiconductor chipmaker Broadcom Corporation, at the direction of Henry Samueli, the company's co-founder, who was inspired to become an electrical engineer in his middle school shop class [4] and Broadcom Chief Executive Scott McGregor, who cited science fair involvement as a factor for his own success.[5][6] McGregor was named the foundation's first president and chairman.[7][6] In 2016, Samueli was elected as chair and Paula Golden was installed as president.[8]

In September 2010, the foundation contributed $6M to science fair organizer Society for Science & the Public to launch Broadcom MASTERS (Math, Applied Science, Technology and Engineering for Rising Stars), a national science fair program for middle school students in the United States.[1] Paula Golden, the foundation's executive director, was quoted in The New York Times describing the critical need for additional science fair and STEM education funding in the United States.[9] The MASTERS was unique in that it combined traditional science fairs with additional teamwork exercises for fair winners.[10]

In 2012, the foundation began funding graduate engineering fellowships at the University of California, Irvine's (UCI's) Henry Samueli School of Engineering.[11]

In 2016, the foundation established the Broadcom Fellows Student Research Workshop and Symposium, which provides fellowships at UCI and UCLA in the areas of computer technology and semiconductors.[12] In March, the foundation contributed to endow the Presidential Chair in electrical engineering and computer science at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering.[13]

Programs

The foundation contributes to a variety of programs to promote education in STEM fields. Programs include the Broadcom MASTERS middle school science fairs organized by Society for Science & the Public; the Broadcom Fellows Student Research Workshop and Symposium for students at UCI and UCLA; and Broadcom Presents: Design_CODE_Build, a program using the Raspberry Pi to teach middle school students to code, presented with the Mountain View, California-based Computer History Museum.[14][15][9][12] The foundation also funds a research fund at Tel Aviv University, and sponsors coding programs arranged by the Raspberry Pi Foundation.[16][17]

References
  1. "Broadcom Foundation launches $6 million science contest". ocregister.com. 2010-09-21. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
  2. "Some of the world's leading young science minds tour UCI engineering school". ocregister.com. 2017-03-15. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
  3. "Intel to End Sponsorship of Science Talent Search". nytimes.com. 2015-09-09. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
  4. https://usnews.com/news/stem-solutions/articles/2018-01-24/digital-communications-leader-henry-samueli-connects-success-and-philanthropy. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. "Broadcom's Henry Samueli: Don't Get Into Tech For The Money—It's Way Too Hard". readwrite.com. 2013-12-09. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
  6. "Broadcom Creates $50M Foundation for Math, Science". ocbj.com. 2009-05-11. Retrieved 2018-12-13.(subscription required)
  7. "Broadcom Engineer, Helicopter Buff Visits Science Fair". ocbj.com. 2011-03-13. Retrieved 2018-12-14.(subscription required)
  8. https://broadcomfoundation.org/about/#leadership. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. "In Budget Crunch, Science Fairs Struggle to Survive". nytimes.com. 2010-12-25. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
  10. "Bringing Individual Potential to a Team Opportunity". scientificamerican.com. 2019-01-21. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
  11. "Broadcom Foundation Funds Graduate Engineering Fellowships at UC Irvine's The Henry Samueli School of Engineering". engineering.uci.edu. 2012-12-01. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
  12. "Broadcom Fellows Come Together to Exchange Ideas". engineering.uci.edu. 2017-05-17. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
  13. "Endowed Presidential Chair Named for Former Dean, Dean's Wife". engineering.uci.edu. 2016-03-28. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
  14. "Why This Broadband Pioneer Wants Engineers to Run the World". pcmag.com. 2018-12-18. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
  15. "Design_Code_Build: Introducing Girls to the Past, Present and Future of Programming". edcrunch.org/. 2014-12-07. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
  16. "Broadcom Chairman's success recipe: Israeli start-ups and hockey". timesofisrael.com. 2013-12-04. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
  17. "CHM Challenges Broadcom MASTERS Finalists with Raspberry Pi & Logic Gates". computerhistory.org. 2018-11-01. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
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