STEM Career Awareness
STEM Learning Pathways and Career Awareness

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Picture of a bubble with the STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) acronym and all the different STEM careers

 This Fostering STEM Career Awareness: Emerging Opportunities for Teachers paper by Carolyn Cohen, Davis G. Patterson, Dina N. Kovarik, Jeanne T. Chowning of the Cohen Research & Evaluation, LLC Northwest Association for Biomedical Research at the University of Washington, highlights and expands on four major and effective strategies to support youth STEM Career Awareness.

Their study involved interviews and focus groups of over 70 high-school science teachers, as well as other science and career education experts, that revealed teaching strategies with the potential to engage students in learning more about STEM careers and implications for broader policy and practice!