Format
1. This program will begin with a brief overview of EarthEcho International and STEM careers
2. The featured STEMExplore Mentor will tell us their story, where they came from and how they became interested in their career.
3. We will learn about the STEMExplore Mentor's career and how their work contributes to a sustainable future.
4. Participants will be able to ask questions and interact with the featured speaker via chat and interactive video.
5. Time for questions and answers will be woven throughout the program.
Objectives
Through STEMExplore, students and STEM professionals will interact, allowing participants to gain familiarity with various career pathways and thus remove a barrier to pursuing these types of STEM careers. Participating students will interact with approachable STEM professionals who are interested in speaking with them. The participants will also learn valuable interview preparation and execution skills using interactive video technology as the medium.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
NGSS STANDARDS :
MS-ESS3-3. Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems • Human activities have significantly altered the biosphere, sometimes damaging or destroying natural habitats and causing the extinction of other species. But changes to Earth’s environments can have different impacts (negative and positive) for different living things. • Typically as human populations and per-capita consumption of natural resources increase, so do the negative impacts on Earth unless the activities and technologies involved are engineered otherwise.
MS-ESS3-4. Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.
Ocean Literacy Principles (OLP):
Principle 6: The ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected.
The ocean affects every human life. It supplies freshwater (most rain comes from the ocean) and nearly all Earth’s oxygen. The ocean moderates the Earth’s climate, influences our weather, and affects human health.
Everyone is responsible for caring for the ocean. The ocean sustains life on Earth and humans must live in ways that sustain the ocean. Individual and collective actions are needed to effectively manage ocean resources for all.