Dear Karen Chassin,
This percentage of 30% of college students dropping STEM programs is an educational crisis that we must address today!
We must prepare the 65% of students in primary schools today to succeed in future tech jobs that have not been created yet!
Or in ten years, we will have a 2 million shortage of technical and 3-D manufacturing workers.
The quickest and easiest way to remedy this shortage is to teach K-12 graders 3-D processes using Computer Aided Design (CAD) to teach all of STEAM! Today’s classrooms only teach in 2-D, but kids live on their 3-D phones and tablets.
All manufacturers have a problem hiring enough technically skilled workers to fill jobs left open by massive retiring of older workers.
We are a small group of retired, but rewired manufacturers working with the Pinellas County Schools to use 3-D CAD design and printing.
We have 3-D printers in 24 public schools. We need business to push education reform to accelerate the teaching of 3-D CAD design in all grades.
Computer Aided Design or CAD is the most important tool used by Scientists, Technologists, Engineers, Artists and Mathematicians! Plus there’s a great need for 3-D Inventors and Entrepreneurs creating small business start-ups.
I was trained in 3-D Printing and CAD design back in 2016 at the Science Center of Pinellas by these manufacturers. They also taught CNC Machining and Manufacturing classes through a grant from Duke Energy.
We hope to be a part of the revitalization of the Science Center. And we are working with St. Pete College Seminole campus creating a 3-D maker space grant program.
Please let us know how St. Pete Foundation can help us change the future of education so that our students here and Nationwide can compete globally with other countries such as China!
Thank you for listening,