Just ran across this on a website for mentoring of High School students (
www.sparkprogram.org):
Spark is constantly recruiting mentors in all professions. Here are some of our most frequently requested fields:
- Computers/Video Game Design
- Animal Care
- Fashion and Cosmetology
- Culinary Arts
- Health Care
- Law
- Government and Safety
- Visual Arts
- Life/Environmental Science
Where are the technology and engineering fields? Not requested! Why? I believe we are waiting too long (high school and a bit of middle school) to start enticing kids into technology and engineering fields. I also believe that computers and video games are a good portal. We just need to get kids from being consumers into be creators (got that from the MIT/Scratch people!).
What do you think?
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