Cane Bay Middle partners with STEM Visions for student career fair
November 18, 2015
MONCKS CORNER, SC – Cane Bay Middle School (CBM) and STEM (science, engineering, technology, and math) Visions are collaborating to host the region’s first career fair for students that combines career exploration, literacy and gamification. The fair will be on Tuesday, November 24, 2015, at CBM from 8:30 a.m. until 11:45 a.m.
Shawn Bowman, Director of Counseling at CBM, said, “We are very excited about the career fair and being the first in our region to implement such a unique event combining unique classroom rotations. At Cane Bay Middle, we are always searching for opportunities to expose our students to information about various careers.”
Students are preparing for the career fair by reading STEM Jobs magazine, a Victory Media publication. The Fall 2014 issue outlines 30 specific job descriptions in the field of Cyber Security, Filmmaking and Video Game Engineering. The magazine “provides teachers, counselors, and administrators in over 20,000 schools across the country with the tools and resources to quickly and easily implement a cutting edge STEM program” (edu.stemjobs.com). Not only does the literacy component help students prepare for the fair, but it also encourages them to take an active role in researching various STEM careers.
Founder of STEM Visions, Gretchen Ramey, will engage students in the classroom using Kahoot!, a “platform that lets students play a high-energy, high interaction quiz game,” (www.siliconhillnews.com). The Kahoot! platform allows Ramey to customize the CBM Career Day competition based on the STEM Jobs content students were assigned to read. As an incentive for their preparation, Ramey will award tickets donated by the South Carolina Stingrays hockey team to one winner of each rotation.
“The explosion of energy from students in this environment is absolutely contagious. The platform is highly successful with Millennial students because it is a fun, multimedia experience and connects relevance to their future. In order to increase the number of students pursuing a STEM pathway, first we need to reveal specifically how it will benefit them,” said Ramey.
