STEM for Success

#STEMforSuccess is a new initiative of @NJIT's CLEAR Collaborative with the mission to promote success through #STEM! Learn more and find out how tune into the initiative's development at stemforsuccess.org #NJITclear

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Check out last week's newsletter featuring the @GovSTEMScholars, May's I CAN STEM NJ role model inductee and more! #NJSTEM #STEMeducation @NewJerseyDOE @NewJerseyTSA @NJEA @njsba @STEMforSuccess @hsmcstem @DelranSTEM @STEMecosystems @TIESTeach mailchi.mp/07ec8820fbbb/n…

Check out this week's newsletter featuring the @GovSTEMScholars, May's I CAN STEM NJ role model inductee and more! #NJSTEM #STEMeducation @NewJerseyDOE @NewJerseyTSA @NJEA @njsba @STEMforSuccess @hsmcstem @DelranSTEM @STEMecosystems @TIESTeach mailchi.mp/07ec8820fbbb/n…

Mechanical engineering is the most popular and chosen major among students interested in pursuing a STEM profession.

What is the best lesson or piece of advice you ever received from a teacher? #TeacherAppreciationWeek @NJEA @NewJerseyTSA @NewJerseyDOE @njsba @NJPSA @NJCountyTeacher @TIESTeach @STEMecosystems @DelranSTEM @hsmcstem @STEMforSuccess @NJAScience @NJHigherEd @NJGov @NJACTE1

International students receive more than half of engineering degrees in the United States.

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs originally achieved fame as teenagers by developing the video game named “Breakout.”

An average of 5,000 faces are remembered by humans.

Emma Haruka Iwao, a Google employee, achieved the record for computing Pi to 31 trillion digits in 2019.

Every individual on the planet shares 99.9% of their genetic structure with everyone else.

The only number with the letter “a” in it from 0 to 1000 is “one thousand.”

The English mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer.

Marie Curie was the first woman to be awarded two Nobel Prizes in Science.

As technology progresses, new jobs fill roles unheard of before. Just a few years ago, a job title such as a Big Data engineer was unheard of, ten years, new jobs will need to be filled that previously didn’t exist.

Mae C. Jemison, an American engineer and physician is the first Black woman to fly to space.

While women have 48% of all the life science jobs, in other STEM job clusters such as engineering, women have only slightly increased in these careers. Men dominate engineering, and women only represent 15% of all the engineers in the US.

While only 36% of students are ready for college science, 44% of high school students are prepared for college-level math.