STEM: What No One Is Talking About - Connected World

I had an opportunity to attend my fifth grader’s STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) Day this year, and I have to say it was well put together, but there was something missing that I have rarely seen presented at the grade school level.

Let me paint a picture. STEM Day is a district-wide event where fifth graders are bussed to the middle school and seventh graders run large experiments for the students, with parent and teacher help and involvement. There were different pods, so to speak, with similar experiments in each pod. It was very well run with some exciting and engaging experiments.

Here’s the challenge: From what I see, career awareness is not connected to STEM in the early elementary school days. We did have a second-grade teacher that had parents come in to speak about their careers. I suppose the students were introduced to different career paths...

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