RE@L Blogs: The RE@L View! RE@L brings you a series of blogs and interviews on STEM Careers. Why? Well, there are milions of K12 school kids out there who need to know if a STEM career is right for them. Girls and boys. If a STEM job piques your interest, now’s the time
RE@L Blogs: The RE@L View! Did you ever wonder: “What am I going to be when I grow up?” Of course, you did! Doesn’t every kid in school wonder? Why would a kid not wonder, given that adults repeatedly ask kids this question: “What are you going be when you
“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.” – John Greenleaf Whittier- No, today we don’t use pens very often. Many of us text instead. But poet Whittier’s timeless words above still stand true. Who wants to miss a great opportunity in life? Have you looked at your crystal
Remember that old saying: “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.”? We used to hear that in the Teacher’s Lounge during our teaching days. It’s true, too, that you can’t teach kids who don’t thirst to learn more. But, hang on! There was a retort to that old saying, “You can make a
How many of us out there are under the illusion that the percent of women graduating with a degree in engineering, science, technology and mathematics (STEM) workforce has gone up in the last 30 years? Well, we are too! We’ve even written several STEM blogs on this topic hoping to increase it even further. Were we
Education Week™, a widely-read online educational publication, has just released “A Sneak Peak” of their annual “Leaders To Learn From in 2015.” Four current K12 school adminsistrators were featured this past week, with the full listing of other notables due out soon. Click on the EdWeek graphic to the right to read this interesting story in
While historically men have dominated the computer profession, there are today many, talented exceptions to that old rule. Many more women today are taking science and mathematics courses, some majoring in computer sciences, others pushing the knowledge boundaries of computer gaming, augmented reality, and other areas of computer study so sophisticated and new they don’t yet have