This Minnesota STEM website has great links for students to explore future careers, and has a ton of great links.
NASA Education Materials Update
Check out the following NASA opportunities for the education community. Full descriptions are listed below.
Smart is the New Cool…let’s hope!
This site is dedicated to helping young people overcome the peer pressure to dumb down.
Team America Rocketry Challenge
Start a rocket club and compete in the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) http://www.rocketcontest.org
How Stuff Works
Explore how everything works from desalination to how off-road vehicles are made. This website is based off the popular Discovery Channel television series How Stuff Works. http://www.howstuffworks.com/
$10,000 Grants For Solving Problems
Create an InvenTeam of high school students, teachers, and mentors that receive grants up to $10,000 each to invent technological solutions to real-world problems. Start your InvenTeam today. http://web.mit.edu/inventeams/about.html
Learn About STEM Careers the Fun Way
There is nothing more fun than learning about different STEM careers in an interactive learning environment, where you can learn about different types of jobs from aerospace to nuclear to jobs in the ocean.
Preparing Youth for STEM Careers: 14 Facts
Mark Savickas’s review of literature reviews and longitudinal studies lead to these 14 useful claims in advising students for success.