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Shop class is grounded, high school aviation classes are taking flight

The Hechinger Report

By 2026, the industry will need to add an estimated 24,000 airline pilots and by 2027 it might be short as many as 40,000 mechanics. The STEM skills that young people are learning are always going to be generally applicable to our emerging and growing economy,” he said. The market for drone pilots is expected to grow by 51.1

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Girls Who Code Goes to Capitol Hill: Can Congress Help Solve the Gender Gap in Tech?

Edsurge

It’s a trend the nonprofit examines in a new report , “The State of Girls in K-12 Computer Science Classrooms,” that was released in conjunction with Wednesday’s gathering. You can’t just put a computer lab or have a computer science class in a middle or elementary school and think everything is going to change.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Children'

Hack Education

The tech industry made a number of high profile donations and pledges this year, coinciding with the Trump administration’s announcement this fall that it would earmark $200 million in grants for computer science and STEM education. Are monetization strategies what we want elementary school students to be concerned with?