Innovate. Educate. Achieve.
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May is Career-Connect Learning Month
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This month
CareerConnect@Home
, a new remote learning site
, will connect
students
grades
7-12
with
career opportunities in our state. Every weekday in May at 3:30 PM, the site will livestream a conversation with a different employer, who will talk about their career, their industry, their skills and challenges, and answer questions from students.
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FutureU -
Use virtual experiences and hands-on, standards-aligned STEM lessons to guide students as they explore key concepts in aerospace and engineering.
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Mission
To increase STEM awareness, career fluency, skills and impact for all students. The Network engages community, education, government, trades and industry to foster a STEM-skills learning pipeline for the 21
st
Century workforce that produces local talent and drives opportunity and prosperity for all in our county.
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Get Involved
Find out how you and members of your organization can support career connected learning and career pathways for students in our county.
Please Contact:
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Apply for WSOS Career Technical Scholarships
Application Deadline
| June 4
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Apply now for the Career and Technical Scholarship provided by the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship program! The Career and Technical Scholarship (CTS) provides Washington state residents with $1,500 per quarter towards an eligible associate degree, certificate or apprenticeship in a trade, STEM or health care field. Funding can be used at any Washington state community or technical college and can be used to cover tuition, fees and other costs of attendance such as housing, transportation, food and more. The application closes June 4!
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STEM Professionals Inspiring Our Community
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Crisis leads to discovery, and STEM careers are at the center of our emergency response plan. There has been no other moment in our modern era where STEM professionals have been as critical to our global and local
perseverance
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Healthcare workers are on the front lines treating and containing this virus, but there are also many STEM professionals behind the scenes directly impacting our community. Epidemiologists,
studying and tracking diseases
, are tracing where individuals have come in contact with those infected to help contain the virus’s spread.
Software designers are working tirelessly to build and improve online learning and meeting platforms that allow us to maintain our business and education needs remotely.
Engineers are working with manufacturers to quickly redesign and pivot production to personal protective equipment and medical devices for medical workers. Locally,
Boeing
and
Kaas Tailored
, a Mukilteo-based furniture manufacturer, are making masks and shields.
Industrial Massage
created s hooks to make masks more comfortable on healthcare professionals' ears.
STEM is the catalyst to our perseverance, and our STEM professionals are inspiring youth to make a difference in the world. Thank you to all of our STEM Professionals for your dedication and passion serving our community when we need innovators and problem solvers more than ever.
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Hard Work and Dedication Matter
STEM Signing Day Applications Deadline |
May 15
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STEM Signing Day is a day where students publicly commit to pursuing STEM — whether through a 2-year degree or 4-year degree. There is a high demand for STEM talent in Washington and
Boeing
and
Washington STEM
want to recognize and celebrate students as they make a commitment to continuing education programs focusing on STEM. We are excited to celebrate these amazing students!
Applications are due May 15th, 2020 -
Apply Now
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The 2020 STEM Signing Day will be on held virtually in early June. Students will be notified the week of May 18th if selected.
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Keeping Girls in STEM: 3 Barriers, 3 Solutions
By Carly Berwick featured in Edutopia
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Stereotypes and cultural norms dampen girls’ interest in STEM, but educators can counter the disparities with small changes to their practice.
Persistent, subconscious images of male mathematicians and scientists that start at the earliest ages may be one explanation why girls
enter STEM fields
—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—at
dramatically lower rates than boys.
BARRIER 1: BUILDING A MATH IDENTITY
One explanation for the gender differences in STEM participation may lie with those formative ideas about who a mathematician or scientist is.
BARRIER 2: THE QUESTION OF RACE AND CLASS
Our assumptions about who does math well—and the academic and financial support that follows—may, in fact, impact performance more than raw aptitude.
BARRIER 3: IT’S NOT JUST CONTENT—IT’S CONTEXT, TOO
When it comes to teaching and learning STEM, research shows that the format matters.
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Prioritizing STEM and Coding Won’t Fill One of the Biggest Gaps in Education
By Tara Chklovski featured in Quartz
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With rapidly improving automation, lifelong learning and continuous reskilling are becoming the norm. The nature of “human work” is also changing, which means the engineers of tomorrow will need to do much more than write code. They will need to do the messy work of navigating uncertainty, solving problems collaboratively, and anticipating the implications of launching a technology product into the world.
Education boards need a blueprint for a new kind of learning that will equip young people to be comfortable with ambiguity, to be self-aware, to solve problems in complex, stressful situations, to be able to make high-stakes decisions, and finally, to think creatively.
We need to give children the tools to look about their world, find the problems they’re passionate about, and design solutions for them. This type of learning can be a vehicle for skills like systems thinking and collaboration. At the same time, real-world problem-solving can demystify technologies like AI that are becoming integral to our work and daily lives.
Real-world problem-solving is critical because it rewards kids’ desire for meaning. As they face an uncertain future, young people don’t just want to know they’ll have a job. They want to play a role in shaping the world they’ll inherit and continue to learn as part of it. By solving problems that impact their lives, children can develop skills for agency, confidence, and hopefully, a sense of optimism.
We need to change how we educate our children so they can thrive in the world we present to them in 2030.
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