STEM Career Lab: Designing Your Future is a multimedia project developed to help Ohio educators engage high school students in exciting STEM fields. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math and the need for professionals in these high-tech and in-demand fields is on the rise.
Through the videos and resources on the STEM Career Lab website, high school students hear from STEM professionals just what it is they love about their STEM career, how what they learned in high school is applied on the job every day, and how students can prepare now for an exciting STEM career of the future.
The project focuses on professions in the fields of:
- Advanced Manufacturing and Materials
- Aerospace Engineer
- Agricultural Engineer
- Architecture
- Biomechanical Engineering
- Biomedical Engineering
- Construction Management
- Electrical Engineering
- Human Performance
- Systems Engineering
- Virtual Reality Design
- Water Resource Managment
Each student video is accompanied by a viewing guide which can also be used as a pre and post assessment. For teachers, the project features corresponding teacher resource videos that offer ideas on how to build student interest in the featured STEM fields, ideas for teaching the math and science concepts described in the videos, and additional background information to help lead class discussions.
About Project Partners CET and ThinkTV
CET and Think
TV are southwest Ohio’s Public Television Stations, part of Public Media Connect. CET and Think
TV are leading providers of education and enrichment in classrooms and living rooms throughout southwest Ohio. Through PBS and local programming, innovative multimedia curriculum projects, parent workshops and teacher training, CET and Think
TV positively impacts thousands of lives in our community. To learn more, please visit Think
TV at
www.thinktv.org and CET at
www.CETconnect.org.
Project Partners and Credits
PRODUCTION STAFF:
Producers: Christian Appleby, Mary Anne Kirk, Gary Greenberg
Videographer: Nick Baute, Richard Nordstrom
Production support: Mike Schwartz, Matt Schwartz, Mike Cornett
PROJECT MANAGERS:
Gloria Skurski, Mary Anne Kirk, Gary Greenberg
PROJECT Support:
Jason Wilson
Debi Thevenin
Charles Cole
Web Design:
Mary Anne Kirk
April Sadowski
Michael Steele
Special Thanks to:
The University of Cincinnati School of Design, Art, and Architecture
http://daap.uc.edu/
Turner Construction
http://www.turnerconstruction.com/
The University of Dayton Research Institute
http://www.udri.udayton.edu/Pages/home.aspx
Wright State University Center of Excellence in Human-Centered Innovation
http://webapp2.wright.edu/web1/hci/
The Wright Patterson Air Force Base 711th Human Performance Wing
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/afrl/711HPW/
The Dayton Regional STEM School
http://www.daytonstemschool.org/
International TechneGroup Inc.
http://www.iti-oh.com/
Rockwell Collins
http://www.rockwellcollins.com/
Hamilton Educational Services Center
http://www.hcesc.org/Pages/default.aspx
Virtual Heroes
http://virtualheroes.com/
Madeira High School
http://www.madeiracityschools.org/school_home.aspx?schoolid=1
Loveland High School
http://lovelandhs.org/
Taylor High School
http://www.threeriversschools.org/Taylor%20High/
East Marshall Community School District, Iowa
http://www.e-marshall.k12.ia.us/
Dayton Regional STEM Center
http://www.daytonregionalstemcenter.org/
Grant Wood Area Education Agency, Iowa
http://www.aea10.k12.ia.us/
NASA Learning Technologies
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/ltp/home/index.html
For more information about this project, or, how to order DVD copies of the videos, please contact Debi Thevenin at
Dthevenin@thinktv.org or 937-220-1708.