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Conversations of STEM Education & Workforce Development

Conversations of STEM Education & Workforce Development. Glenn Acree , Ph.D. My Point of view. Educator / Mathematician Nashville Technology Council TNHIMSS Life Science Tennessee Middle Tennessee STEM Innovation Hub. Nashville Technology Council. T3 – Turning the Tide of Technology

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Conversations of STEM Education & Workforce Development

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  1. Conversations of STEM Education & Workforce Development Glenn Acree, Ph.D.

  2. My Point of view Educator / Mathematician Nashville Technology Council TNHIMSS Life Science Tennessee Middle Tennessee STEM Innovation Hub

  3. Nashville Technology Council T3 – Turning the Tide of Technology Speakers in the schools Internships/Externships First Camps Student Congress Career Fairs and … Advisory Boards

  4. Advisory Boards School Districts Driving Technology into the curriculum and culture throughout K-12 Colleges/Universities Connections with industry for internships, entry level recruitment, and growth of programs

  5. The Conversation GrowsWorkforce becomes Workforce/Education • TNHIMSS • Information Systems Security Association • Life Science Tennessee • Local Chambers

  6. The ResponseFrom Local Higher Education Institutions • Information Security • Healthcare Information Technology • Informatics • Data Science • Analytics ... And partnerships with industry that lead to increasing numbers of internships and new hires

  7. National Trends

  8. Fastest Growing Occupations

  9. A New Vocabulary

  10. NSF / AAU&C / PKAL Increasing Diversity and Equity in STEM Attention to Women and the growth of other Under-represented groups in STEM Improvement of Undergraduate STEM Education MORE!! … STEM Graduates

  11. Local Trends

  12. Three Strategies to transform Education in your community • Organically Grow Talent • Recruit Talent from Specific Markets with the Talent YOU Need • Retrain Talent

  13. Careers of the Future • Analytics  Visualization  Predictive • Community Engineering/Hacking • Data Scientist

  14. Data scientist • So you want to be a data scientist? • Data Aggregator • DBA • Statistics/Mathematician • Artist • Big Data discussion shifts to Visualization • Coder • Model Builder/Crusher

  15. Owning STEM Our Comfort Level with the Sciences • Biology, Physics and Chemistry • Engineering and Mathematics • Computer Science, Data Science, Informatics, Analytics, Visualization

  16. Softer Issues • Problem Solving • Communicating Solutions • Working in Teams • Motivation • Work Ethic • Persistence, Determination, Curiosity, Creativity

  17. Expose, Engage & Equip

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