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By MC2 Amanda Sullivan
Navy Recruiting Command Public Affairs
MILLINGTON, Tenn. – In order to remain the world’s most powerful Navy, ships and other operational equipment rely on state-of-the-art engineering and technology. But without the right people to guide it, even the best engineering and technology is rendered useless.
As many jobs in the Navy have become increasingly based on advanced electronics, operators of those systems must be increasingly familiar and inclined to the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
In order to inspire and attract the next generation of STEM innovators, the Navy has developed the STEM Tour that highlights various applications of STEM used in day-to-day operations. The STEM Tour has been available for recruiters to use at events for about a year and features several discovery centers including a laparoscopic challenge and an underwater drone challenge along with demonstrations about the electro-magnetic aircraft launch and recovery systems.
During a recent engineering conference at the University of Memphis, the STEM Tour was on display including an outdoor exhibit and indoor set up for an audience of middle, high school and college students. Local recruiters from Navy Recruiting District Nashville’s Division 6 were impressed with the ability of the asset to attract a very specific crowd.
“The students really like the challenges, you can see them get excited,” said Operations Specialist 2nd Class Marika-Auror Young, recruiter, Navy Recruiting Station (NRS) Southaven, Miss. “It gives [local recruiters] an opportunity to see which schools are really serious about science and engineering, which is the kind of kids we want to attract.”
The Navy’s STEM Tour not only intends to attract and potentially recruit students already interested in STEM fields, but also aims to spark a greater curiosity about the STEM subjects and careers in general.
“Obviously the Navy has a need for increased interest in this sort of thing,” said Bruce Watson, parent of a student attending the conference. “But this is an educational tool we need to be encouraging anyway. These are marketable skills.”
The STEM Tour is available as a large outdoor footprint but can easily be broken down to accommodate smaller spaces and indoor events.
“We had initially set up the STEM Tour for this event as the full footprint outside,” said Cornell Galloway, director, Events Marketing Division at Navy Recruiting Command. “But due to rain, we moved parts of the set-up into an interior corridor of the engineering building.”
Because of this flexibility, the tour was able to capture an audience outside at the event and an additional audience inside the building simultaneously and showcasing different STEM concepts.
The STEM Tour is available as a whole or part through the Navy Events Central website at http://navyevents.com.
| Date Taken: | 11.22.2013 |
| Date Posted: | 11.25.2013 16:47 |
| Story ID: | 117357 |
| Location: | MILLINGTON, TN, US |
| Hometown: | MEMPHIS, TN, US |
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