Welcome to Silicon Valley STEM Academy

Technology and bioscience are converging. Neuroscientists, mathematicians and computer scientists are working together to study how human neural networks function, in order to illuminate how we can program computers to perform machine learning and achieve artificial intelligence. Scientists are beginning to consider DNA as a new storage medium, now that bioengineers and geneticists have successfully stored 700 terabytes of data in a single gram of DNA.
Biomimicry has been applied to solve large (e.g. Stealth Bomber) and small scale problems (surgical tools that are 97% resistant to microbial colonization).
Nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension that is between 1 and 100 nanometers has applications both in biologic (medicine, health, nutrition) as well as non-biologic systems and sometimes draws upon biomimicry. For this reason, all courses offered through Academe Vitae are interdisciplinary and complementary.

"[Science] is more than a school subject, or the periodic table, or the properties of waves. It is an approach to the world, a critical way to understand and explore and engage with the world, and then have the capacity to change that world..."

— President Barack Obama, March 23, 2015

"Today's students must master high-level mathematical concepts and complex approaches to solving problems to be prepared for college, careers of the 21st century, and the demands of everyday life. Not enough young people perform at that level."

-- U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley, November 12, 1998