Project 1

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Lack of advanced STEAM education in Public Schools

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STEAM education was created in the 1950s, It was then put in effect in the 1990s and 2000s

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The US invests 540 million dollars in to educational K-12 STEAM programs across the country each year.

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•High demand in STEAM jobs •Need a better understanding of it

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32,000 US High Schools don't have advanced STEAM programs

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50% of High-poverty students don't have access to most advanced science classes

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These children will not have access to high paying jobs in the future

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•6.2% of the jobs in the US require STEAM knowledge •High poverty children wont have a chance To get these jobs

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High poverty 87% graduation rate compared  95% graduation rate of low to no poverty high schools.

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Low-income families have a dropout rate of 10% compared to the 1.6% from high-income families dropout rate.

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