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All kids can do STEM
The power of STEM
Any teacher as a STEM mentor
The STEM imperative
Why a 21st-Century Education?
21st-Century Skills
A 21st-century education ensures that your students have the requisite skills to thrive in a world that is being transformed by artificial intelligence, robotic, automation, and other emerging technologies. Creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration (4C’s) are the skills our learners need to develop the confidence today to be ready for tomorrow.
Learner-Centered
Interest-based, personalized, self-paced, and mastery-based education strategies recognize the learner as the center-piece in the education process. A blended-learning approach allows for remote learning so your students can engage in-school, after-school, and out-of-school, focusing on what, when, and where is suitable for their learning styles.
STEM-Based
A STEM-based education is the best way for your students to develop, practice, and excel at 21st-century skills according to their learning style. Comprehensive STEM, which goes way beyond coding and robotics, is critical to a 21st-century education.
A Way Forward In The New Normal
Virtual STEM Features
Project-Based
STEM experiences involve project and problem-based learning. At the foundation for STEM education, these learning strategies focus on preparing students for life after school to address the complex challenges and problems in our world.
21st Century Skills
STEM experiences provide opportunities to develop 21st-century skills such as the 4 C’s. Additionally, we promote empathy, adaptability, confidence, entrepreneurship, problem-solving, curiosity, perseverance, leadership, self-discipline, and more.
Learn by Doing
STEM experiences involve doing and making in real-world environments and with real-world problems. Doing-based learning is essential in gaining knowledge and developing skills.
Future Proof
STEM experiences provide students opportunities to learn how to learn. A 2017 Dell report predicts future employment will value in-the-moment learning and the ability to gain new knowledge higher than the knowledge people already have.
Virtual CTE Features
Portfolio Development
CTE experiences scaffold and integrate skill mastery with authentic learning and skills, equipping our kids with competitive portfolios, and prepared to enter the world of work.
Employability Skills
CTE experiences provide authentic opportunities to develop employability skills such as collaboration, adaptability, integrity, perseverance, communication, creativity, leadership, self-discipline, and more.
Authentic Experience
More than ever before, higher education institutions and career fields are looking for real-world experience, proven skills, and marketable abilities rather than standardized exam scores.
Career Readiness
In general, CTE experiences from middle school up through high school and beyond provides all students access to high-quality, rigorous career-focused programs that result in attainment of credentials with labor market value.
Virtual STEM Camps
Design Thinking in STEM
Virtual STEM camps are STEM-themed virtual events. Students experience design thinking through prototyping, collaboration, reflection, asking questions, and developing empathy while developing various types of products.
Empathy & Diversity
Campers learn foundational aspects and application of design thinking in STEM; The importance of EMPATHY in STEM through design thinking activities; The importance of DIVERSITY in STEM through design thinking activities.
Professional Development
Virtual self-guided professional development courses for educators, parents, mentors, or STEM coaches. Provides best practices for facilitating a virtual STEM-based service learning camp and integrating empathy, design thinking, and STEM concepts in schools, after-school organizations, or at home.
Schools and Organizations
The Virtual STEM Camp offers introductory and repeated STEM learning and skills for students, educators, parents, mentors, and coaches. Camps can be customized according to schools’ and organizations’ unique needs. They can be designed for students of all ages.
The Future is STEM, Let’s Get Them Ready
Why 21stCentEd?
EASY TO USE
Accessible to all levels and learning styles. Even “technologically challenged” parents can get involved.
FUN-FORWARD
Interactive courses mean kids are learning while having fun.
PERSONALIZED
Students choose topics based on their own interests and learn at their own pace.
SUPPORTIVE
Students have access to mentors to keep them on track and motivated.