In current education issues, students in North Carolina at Wake NC State University STEM Early College High School outperformed average scores on their standardized tests along with over 95% of these students who have passed their state is exams.
In Tacoma, Washington at Lincoln High School, technology professionals and teachers are in the process of strengthening their students interests in the STEM system by the implementation of an after-school club for STEM.
Students from this STEM club have recently won one of the competitions from creating an app that enables users to doodle on photographs. These students all received a 6 week mentor program that allows them to visit the tech company known as Concur and to shadow the software developers this coming summer.
This type of vital exposure is important and can have an extremely positive effect on career choices students make when they progress onto college. One student who had participated in the after school program known as the STEM club from Lincoln High School stated that the experience he received helped him in making the choice to pursue an engineering degree when he moved onto Washington State University.
In a number of current education issues a traveling circus known as the STEAM Carnival marries science with spectacle and aims to give excitement to a subject that was once misjudged and defined as a type of ‘boring field’.
The founders, Eric Gradman and Brent Bushnell built an event that combines games, robots and lasers in an effort to bring fun and life to the “face of STEM.”
It has been believed that this specific transformative power linking to innovation, invention and creation is what has made STEM so attractive and alluring to a number of students and educators alike. STEM makes for one the more exciting segments available in education today.