The STEM Pipeline is Broken

[SenorZ]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

To me, things will start improving when education as a whole can embrace the following:

This list is beautiful.
Thank you for taking the time to write it out! Unfortunately in California (and every other state I assume), the focus is more on protecting status quo than pushing for progress.

I recently tried to convince my site admin we needed to offer a ROP engineering course (or multiple). I was told that to teach CTE courses you need "industry experience". Which excludes me because I only have a BS in Physics and 6 years of FRC experience.

I have one assistant principal (and maybe the principal) who are willing to fight for district support of robotics/STEM education. Maybe this will be the year...