Manufacturing

Mass STEM Hub is marking this year’s STEM Week by hosting three project-based challenges to connect students learning remotely and in person to more than 200 professionals across 61 Massachusetts businesses and organizations, the organization announced on Monday.

Elev8 Cannabis opened the first of its three Massachusetts dispensary locations in Athol on Oct. 8. Its owner and founder, Seun Adedeji, also operates a dispensary in Oregon, with another forthcoming in Illinois.

Marlborough medical technology company ReWalk Robotics is officially an authorized Medicare provider, the company announced on Tuesday.

Under the watchful eyes of municipal leaders, established industry players and advocates, marijuana overseers on Tuesday are ironing out the final wrinkles of their plan to establish a structure for home delivery of marijuana and create new business opportunities.

Rick Walton, owner of Moon Hill Brewing Co. in Gardner, has received a $50,000 Economic Recovery Fund loan from the North Central Massachusetts Development Corp., the financing arm of the North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce, the chamber announced on Monday.

Marlborough medical device company ReWalk Robotics has named Randel Richner, the former Boston Scientific vice president of global government affairs and reimbursement, to its board of directors, Rewalk announced on Monday.

A coalition of groups plans on Tuesday to publicly challenge the way public vocational-technical high schools rank prospective students, saying the method results in fewer admissions of African-American, Latinx, and English learner students as well as fewer students from low-income and working-class backgrounds.

The pandemic and the shift to doing more work online or remotely has proved the importance of science, technology, engineering and math skill sets, and the value of an engaged STEM community in Massachusetts, Gov. Charlie Baker said Monday morning.

Charlotte conglomerate Honeywell has acquired the Southborough-based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) subsidiary of Vancouver, BC-based Ballard Power Systems, Inc. in a deal to see the two companies collaborate on fuel cells in the future.

Saint-Gobain, a French corporation with a major manufacturing site in Worcester, is among the world's most sustainably managed companies, according to a ranking  weighing environmental considerations, employee, workplace and societal issues, and innovation.