Careers and CTE

Apr

Looking for some fun Earth Day STEM Activities that students can do from home or in class? Check out this list of five fun STEM activities for Earth Day – all 15% off every Wednesday in April! Sustainability Analyst Challenge: The Sustainability STEM Challenge is a self-guided distance learning mini course for teens to learn [...]

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Tags: distance learning, earth day, environmental,

Dec

3 STEM Activities to Try During Your Winter Break

Put your winter break to good use! While home for the holidays, take some time to explore your interests in STEM, try new things, and continue on the path to your future STEM career! Here are three fun STEM activities to try: Play STEM Games Take a step a way from WOW and Minecraft for [...]

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Tags: citizen science, hour of code, STEM games,

Sep

Build Your Resume at Global Innovation Field Trip

Build your resume and share your work with the world in the Global Innovation Field Trip (GIFT)! WHAT IS GIFT? https://innovationworld.org/gift-home/ Global Innovation Field Trip (GIFT) is a 24-hour live online event where students in grades K to 12 give 10 minute presentations about anything they have done involving innovation, invention, and creativity. GIFT’s are held […]

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Aug

Engineering Jobs of the Future

Engineers touch everything we interact with in daily life. They design bridges. Engineers innovate new beauty products, and they launch space exploration tools. Dozens of engineering sectors exist already. And growth into new frontiers expands rapidly. Encourage your career and technical education (CTE) students to be innovators in engineering. Consider the following careers emerging now [...]

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Tags: engineering,

Jul

$600,000 grant for career exploration

U.S. Department of Education announces $600,000 challenge to advance technology education in rural high schools and prepare students for careers To be successful in careers of today and the future, students must be equipped with advanced technology skills. Yet many barriers exist, especially in rural communities. One-third of American schools are located in rural areas. […]

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Jun

How to make every lesson a STEM career lesson

According to a 2019 Gallup poll, Not Just a Job: New Evidence on the Quality of Work in the United States, only 40% of employed Americans are in “good jobs,” meaning they expressed high satisfaction across 10 important job characteristics (flexibility, pay, and so on). Researchers found that while most workers in good and mediocre […]

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Mar

Successful People and their Unexpected Career Paths

Guest Post from Resume Now Years before co-founder and CEO of Netflix, Reed Hastings achieved success, he was a door-to-door vacuum salesman with a high-school diploma. He eventually ended up getting his bachelor’s degree but instead of entering the workforce, he decided to join the Peace Corps before returning and starting his career in computer […]

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Tags: career prep, resumes,

Mar

Online STEM Activities

If you are looking for online STEM activities that students can do from home, check out this helpful list of our top five virtual STEM learning options: Career In STEM® Explorer– now 25% off! 95+ STEM career profiles conveniently & expertly curated to help teens find their future STEM career, today! The Career In […]

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Mar

Online Volunteer Opportunity For Teens

Are you looking to build your resume and earn volunteer hours? Career In STEM needs your help! If you are a teen interested in science, engineering, math, or technology we invite you to join us as a Content Curator. Content Curators will create new career pages, used by over 1 million students across the world […]

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