A Case for the Arts in STEM Education Art and Technology: A Necessary Combination. The education field is crowded with writers and educators asking for the inclusion of the arts in STEM education, with voices as diverse as Senator Kamala Harris and former Cisco...
The United States Military Academy — West Point — is a four-year college dedicated to training officers in the US Army. You can read more about STEM careers in the military – including the Army – in our post on the general subject. Today, we...
Whenever The Stemwinder has some free time, the best use of that time is to read. When it is time for futuristic out of the box thinking, science fiction is the genre of choice. Whether old-school Isaac Asimov, or contemporaries like William Gibson and Neil...
Are you in awe of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie’s work in radioactivity? Do you aspire to be like the incredible women that the Hidden Figures movie is based on, who made a huge contribution to science and mathematics? If so, a STEM career may be perfect...
Summer camp. For many, those words bring to mind rustic cabins, swimming in a small lake, hiking through the woods, and conquering obstacle courses. For others, it invokes the memories of soccer, football, or basketball games. Or maybe your summer camp was for music,...
Curriculum Requirements of a Mechanical Engineering Student Mechanical engineers work with machines and engines, from elevator technology to robotics. At a minimum, a mechanical engineering career requires a bachelor’s degree. Though the mechanical engineering...
