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Students have often pushed away from STEM due to the stigma surrounding it or an inability to access technology. These factors contribute to the shortage of technical professionals that our nation faces meaning lost opportunities for the students that might like STEM and the employer. If the students can be exposed to STEM through lessons and purely having access to it , more students may have an interest.
Working to solve this problem means a lot to me because without a few key people and organizations this description would have been an accurate depiction of my life. I want to pay it forward and provide others the same opportunities I had. I also get very frustrated when students are held accountable for an inability to learn when they …show more content…
At my middle school, we had fewer opportunities for STEM than we did at my elementary school. That’s clearly not okay. I want to build up places for kids to learn about and love STEM while they are in school as a part of extracurriculars. By talking to the administrations in these places, I think they would be very receptive to the idea of encouraging STEM. Overall, I want to show kids that STEM is cool, different careers, different people, breaking the stigma. For me at that age, seeing people I could look up to that was relatively close to my age made me want to continue what I was doing. By just being there and helping I think I could …show more content…
As president of the clubs I start, I am taking a very obvious form of leadership of the people I recruit. Leading initiatives to popularize STEM are not so clear-cut, and they fall under the category of trailblazing. I am doing completely new things that haven’t been advocated for enough and through that I am leading. Success will be measured by people. The number of people I can get interested in STEM is an indicator of my success. If I can get a few kids interested in STEM I know I have done my part. In the place of self-improvement which in turn will help the greater good, I measure progress by what I accomplish. If I have no projects by the end of the year, I won’t consider that very successful, if I have several that is

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