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Engineers Week Feb. 18-24

Ask a Tech Teacher

During Engineers Week, engineering societies, universities, companies, and other organizations organize workshops, competitions, seminars, outreach programs to schools, career fairs, and networking events. Looking for resources for your students?

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How Teaching Online Can Change Your Life

EdNews Daily

My training and teaching background encompasses after-school programs, church’s institutes, women’s focus studies, women’s empowerment groups, conferences, workshops, seminars, and teaching STEM to kids in an after-school boys and girls club, located in Baltimore. Clearly, I thought to myself, “I am not in my comfort zone.”

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Data science under fire: What math do high schoolers really need?

The Hechinger Report

But other math educators have decried a move away from Algebra II, which they argue remains core to math instruction and necessary for students to succeed in STEM careers and beyond. Aaron Lira, a senior at Hueneme High School, said he finds data science interesting because he is learning skills that many companies use.

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Pathways to jobs of the future opening via summer STEM programs

The Hechinger Report

All that changed this summer, when Davis found herself sequencing numbers, learning about graduate programs and visiting companies that benefit from the research she and 19 other students have been doing at Muhlenberg College. “It He also reaches out to K-12 schools to try to get more students interested in STEM at an early age.

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An Ode To STEM? What poets can teach academic scientists

The Hechinger Report

As college students in STEM fields scour university website offerings for the fall semester, they are likely overlooking an important element. A recent initiative from Rhode Island School of Design makes explicit the need to integrate STEM with art and design — known as STEAM — toward innovation.

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Germany, known for sorting kids into college and vocational tracks, takes a more flexible approach

The Hechinger Report

Students in Germany can embark on apprenticeships directly after finishing general education at age 16 in grade 10, attending vocational schools that offer theoretical study, alongside practical training at a company. Chambers of commerce and industry support company-school partnerships and help smaller businesses train their interns.

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Kids Don’t Always Believe in Climate Science. Are Schools Miseducating Them?

Edsurge

For the book, she tracked what schools in each state are actually teaching about climate science, and uncovered the watered-down standards and outright climate change denial adopted by some states, as well as a well-funded campaign of misinformation spearheaded by fossil fuel companies.