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Engineers Week Feb. 16-22 2025

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This week, February 16-22, 2025 is DiscoverEs Engineers Week. Their tagline: A week-long event, a year-long commitment Do you wonder why anyone would be passionate about engineering?Overall, Overall, engineering offers a combination of intellectual challenge, real-world impact, and opportunities for personal and professional growth.

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Engineers Week Feb. 18-24

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This week, February 18-24, 2024, is DiscoverE’s Engineers Week. Their tagline: “A week-long event, a year-long commitment” Do you wonder why anyone would be passionate about engineering? million engineering jobs that pay $42 per hour in median. Since 2007, the number of engineering grads nationwide has shot up 33%.

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Could Play Boost Students’ Math Performance?

ED Surge

Just like when learning sports, language or music, structured practice is really important for math, Barbara Oakley, distinguished professor of engineering for Oakland University, wrote in an email to EdSurge. That could mean preparing the classroom with labels and blocks and other spacial and mathematical items.

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For Girls to Succeed in STEM, Confidence Matters as Much as Competence

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That is one of the questions and challenges at the center of a recently released report based on the Girls’ Index, a survey of 17,500 girls in fifth through 12th grades that includes questions about their goals for the future and perception of science, technology, engineering and mathematics as potential careers.

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Stem Education in 2020

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People keen on mathematics, physics, or IT were awe-inspiring and seemed to have supernatural abilities. STEM is an acronym that stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Brianna, has some general observations about STEM education in 2020: Stem Education in 2020.

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STEM Career Spotlight: Women In STEM

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Historically, women in STEM are often overlooked, undervalued, and even discouraged from pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. But today, women in STEM are breaking barriers, shattering glass ceilings, and achieving incredible accomplishments that are changing the world.

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Video Games and STEM

STEM Education Works

Lets break STEM down letter-by-letter: Science Science is all about understanding physical systems and developing models/theories to describe how they work. By manipulating the flow of electrons through different materials, computers are able to harness very simple physics to transform the world around us. Until next time.

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