STEAM takes on another meaning

hot_rod

Educators have been promoting the opportunities and importance of STEM Science, Technology, Engineering, Math. They are encouraging the young people to concentrate on what keeps America great. We lead the world when we are innovators, and these are the skills and education required.

Rhode Island School of Design has added Art to the Stem.

Pass this on to the young-in looking for a career path. Turn off the reality shows and the avoid quest for instant wealth and fame promised by the reality talent shows.

Ellen saw Buzz Aldrin speak this past weekend and at age 86 he is a tireless advocate of STEAM.

www.risdsteam.org

delta T

My Fiance is a newly minted master's degree holding public school art teacher, and this is quickly becoming the next best thing. People are starting to realize that art DOES matter, and it impacts how well you do at all the other STEM stuff too. Who knows, maybe they will even start to open up some more trade schools too.....

KC_Jones

This program started at in my kids school district this year. They have trains all over the school.
Our superintendent is strongly oriented towards hands on learning, the trades and technology as it relates to everything, this program was his next logical step.

Canucker

As a younger man, I fell for the argument made years ago, that unless it could make money and support itself, whatever it was had no inherent value. The arts suffered greatly at the hands of this type of thinking and, in my opinion, we are all worse off for allowing it to happen.

KC_Jones

Creativity takes many forms, art being one of them. If we stifle any form of creativity we are losing.

KC_Jones

Also here is a picture of some of the teachers in the school district getting into the swing of things in the metal shop. Oh yeah ESAB has a plant in our town so they sponsor this program...NICE.

hot_rod

They look excited.

Nice of ESAB to step up. It looks like a clean, well equipped shop.

bob_46

We would never have something like this if it wasn't for the"A" in STEAM.

ratio

Uhg. That kind of thing just seems to make the job harder than it needs to be. Form follows function. Art in a trade takes different forms: skilled, clean & pretty installation; safe, efficient, reliable operation. Gingerbread is too much like lipstick for me.

Canucker

@ratio there's room for both. I appreciate a clean, minimalist install. No wasted space or material, just looks sharp. But I like the idea with the curved pipe and colours. The little bit of flash adds to it, in my opinion.

ratio

Yah, I didn't mean to sound critical. But I'm quite sure that our sales critters and crack guesstimators think that it's quicker and easier to do it that way, and then I'm to blame if it takes longer than was promised.

hot_rod

ratio said:

Yah, I didn't mean to sound critical. But I'm quite sure that our sales critters and crack guesstimators think that it's quicker and easier to do it that way, and then I'm to blame if it takes longer than was promised.

Sounds like you should have the estimators do a handful of installed

ratio

Oh, if only I could get through to them:

Not all customers are our customers

The cynic in me feels it is related to commissions paid on gross sales rather than net profits. But by golly, I'm going to do a bang-up job of it. No matter how long or expensive it is to do it right.

hot_rod

Sounds like you have the right attitude, and do right by the customer.

Some times you need to fire your employer if they don't appreciate the service and expertise that you provide their customers.

ratio

Oh, they do appreciate me. I get tapped for all the problembest jobs, and only rarely do I need specific orders not get thrown off a job. I just keep hoping that Big Daddy will get tired of paying customers to do their work.