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How Do We Prepare Students for STEM Careers?
STEM occupations are currently growing over two times faster than any other occupation, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Millions of jobs are projected to go unfilled as universities are only expected to produce one-third of the graduates needed to...
Atlanta Public Schools & STEM Education in the COVID era
With the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, many school districts found it challenging to acquire the materials they needed for summer STEM programs. A CTE educator working in the Atlanta Public School district reached out to Techno Tinkers with a...
Texas Empowerment Academy: SEE program & student education
In the summer of 2019, Techno Tinkers held our first STEM Education for Educators (SEE) program at the Texas Empowerment Academy. The workshop taught teachers how to use the micro:bit, and how the device worked. We also provided lesson plan examples for teachers, so...
Student programming at AUSPREP
Techno Tinkers was proud to provide course materials and a week of student programming for a program called the Austin Pre-Freshmen Engineering Program (AusPREP) in the summer of 2019. The program targeted high-achieving and traditionally underrepresented students in...