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STEM Jobs Outlook Strong, but Collaboration Needed to Fill Jobs
Tweet Share on Facebook November 3, 2011 Comment (19)Mel Schiavelli is president of the Harrisburg University of Science and Technology in Pennsylvania.
U.S. businesses are in a Catch-22.
They've got plenty of jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math—STEM—ready to fill.
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Segway Inventor: Fear of Failure Kills U.S. Innovation
Tweet Share on Facebook November 2, 2011 Comment (10)Inventor and education innovator Dean Kamen is well known for two things: inventing the Segway and founding FIRST Robotics, one of the nation's largest STEM competitions. The program, which requires students to build, program, and complete tasks with a robot, has served more than a million students since he founded it in 1989.
A study by Brandeis University found that students who compete in the competition are much more likely to attend college, major in science or engineering, and have an internship during their freshman year in college than students who didn't compete. The competition has more momentum than ever before, with corporate sponsors ranging from General Motors and Johnson & Johnson to AT&T and Coca-Cola. I spoke with Kamen about FIRST and the challenges the United States must overcome to regain its spot as the world's top innovator.
