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

The Hechinger Report

The pandemic worsened the situation: Almost every industry faced a shortage of qualified workers. Two new initiatives launched by school districts in and around Pittsburgh, which aim to create viable pathways for students into the aviation and aeronautics industry, offer examples. 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

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. And it's not just the girls who stand to gain, Pressley said: "The power of diversity in STEM, in every industry and agency, means there'll be greater innovation because there are diverse perspectives."

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Children'

Hack Education

As I noted in the previous article in this series , the technology industry has continued this year to advocate for changes to both policy and curriculum to expand computer science education. billion ) – but that didn’t stop some industry folks from crooning about what they saw as a windfall. Saturday’s Child.