Without the philosophy or the art behind any subject, the subject is a hollow shell, and a flimsy one at that. It has no purpose except to look appealing.
We are applying STEAM through:
- Materials Research
- Load Tolerance
- Tensile Strength
- Materials Cost
- Application Design
- Construction
- Scanning Lasers
- 3d Printing
- Software Application
- Programming
- Computer Aided Drafting (CAD)
- Board Drafting/Drawing
- Creative Planning
- Product Design
- Industry Application
- Business Practices
- Employee Development
- Presentations
- Group Dynamics
- Project Planning
- Job Skills
- Inspiring Creativity
- Innovation
- Patent Education
- Open Source
I have to stop there because this list could go o for a while. What we are doing with this program inside and outside of the school touches every aspect of what it means to study and produce in a society that champions the good.
Art is the meaning for all of it. No one looks at something created and says, " I want that it has no artistic appeal at all." In fact the opposite is true. We buy things for the sole purpose of art. Just look at Merchandising for the clearest possible example. You can walk into a grocery store and see art on display even in the way vegetables are arranged. Our world is created with beauty and we honor creation when we make things beautiful and beautifully.
Please join efforts to make these types of programs available to anyone. Here is to helping each other out. Let us make tomorrow better than today. Full STEAM ahead, if that is what you want to call it.
You can learn more about ours and other STEAM programs at:
http://stemtosteam.org/
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/steam/
And let us know if you have other resources to include here.
