National STEM/STEAM Day
STEAM education is essential for the advancement of society, which is why National STEM/STEAM Day is observed every November. Read below to learn more about the day!
When is National STEM/STEAM Day?
National STEM/STEAM Day is celebrated on November 8 every year.
FAQs
Consider going through the frequently asked questions and fun facts below to enhance your knowledge about STEM education.
What is STEM/STEAM education?
STEM stands for science, tech, engineering, and math, while STEAM includes STEM, plus arts like dance, language, drama, design, and media. In other words, STEM education explicitly focuses on scientific concepts.
Conversely, STEAM dives deeper with problem-based and inquiry learning methods utilized in creative processes. These subjects push society forward and provide fun as well as engaging ways of studying.
What are the benefits of STEM?
STEM education features a lot of benefits. For one, it fosters creativity and ingenuity, encourages teamwork, and builds resilience. Additionally, it promotes adaptation, encourages tech use, and provides experimentation as well as teamwork experience.
How do I celebrate National STEM/STEAM Day?
I suggest that you commemorate the day by diving into STEAM subjects like computer gaming, photography, and astronomy. As a result, you might find one that intrigues you, and you can pursue a career.
You can brush up on your STEAM skills through online courses by institutions like MIT and Harvard, many of which are free. Finally, you can help out a local STEAM program through donations or by helping spread the word on social media.
Fun Facts
In 2018, the STEM job sector grew by 45%. In fact, 15 of the 20 fastest-growing jobs necessitate mathematics or science preparation.
STEM students earn 70% more money than the national average and are less likely to experience job loss. Despite this, just 16% of US bachelor’s degrees specialize in STEM.
If students don’t engage in STEM by the 5th grade, over 90% lose interest in it.
According to a study of 65 countries, American students tend to score 25th in math and 17th in science ability.
Top earners in the science and technology sector tend to earn millions per year, more than most celebrities.
According to various researches, STEM professions are the most economically important ones. The addition of just 1% of the population in this sector can increase the GDP by over $50 billion.
8 out of 10 listed as the most needed employees by the US Department of Labor are related to STEM.
The US Department of Education, in 2019, invested over $540 million in STEM education, proving its importance.
90% of future jobs are expected to require digital literacy provided by STEM. Also, by 2025, 3.5 million jobs related to STEM will need to be filled in the US alone.
Economists suggest that over 50% of US annual GDP increase is because of technological innovation, which requires STEM-related skills. Recent STEM innovations include Google (Alphabet), Apple, Amazon, and Facebook (Meta).
China produced the most STEM graduates in 2016, numbering 4.7 million, followed by India’s 2.6 million.
More than 50% of American teens have never even considered a career in a STEM-related field.
Jokes for STEM Day
What did the biologist wear to impress his date?
Designer Genes.
How does a mathematician plow fields?
With a protractor.
What do you call an accountant for the biology department?
A buy-ologist.
Why are chemists excellent at solving problems?
They have all the solutions.
Where do math teachers go on vacation?
To Times Square!
Why is it wrong to trust atoms?
They make up everything!
What do mathematicians do after a snowstorm?
Make snow angles!
What did the calculator say to the student?
You can always count on me.
What do you call it when a biologist takes a photo of himself?
A cell-fie.
What type of dogs do chemists own?
Laboratory Retrievers.
Why was math class so long?
The teacher kept going off on a tangent.
What was the first Electricity Detective’s name?
Sherlock Ohms.
Why did the student do multiplication problems on the floor?
The teacher told him not to use tables.
STEAM Day Jokes
What did one ion say to another?
I’ve got my ion you.
What tool is best suited for math?
Multi-pliers.
How do astronauts organize a successful surprise party?
They plan-et.
What’s a swimmer’s favorite kind of math?
Dive-ision!
What’s a math teacher’s favorite kind of tree?
Geometry.
Why did the developer become so poor?
Because he used up all his cache.
Which king loved fractions?
Henry the ⅛.
What did the computer have during his break time?
He had a byte!
Why is it sad that parallel lines have so much in common?
Because they’ll never meet.
What made the Java developers wear glasses?
They can’t C.
One-Liners For STEM
There are ten types of people in the world: those that understand binary and those who do not.
I’d tell you a joke about stats, but you’d probably already know it.
There’s a fine line between a numerator and a denominator. But only a fraction would understand.
I’m fascinated by water’s gas form. It mist-ifies me.
Two blood cells met and fell in love, but alas, it was all in vein.
A pessimist looks at a glass of water and states it is half empty; an optimist looks at the same glass and says it is half full, but an engineer sees it and states the glass is twice as tall as it should be.
A biologist and a physicist got married but got divorced soon after. There was just no chemistry.
When organisms don’t like the rules, they protist.
I would tell you a joke about an infinite line. But it doesn’t have an endpoint.
I’ll do algebra, and I’ll do trigonometry. I’ll even do statistics. But graphing is where I draw the line!
If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate.
Managed to get some engineering calculations wrong by using the wrong pencil. It wasn’t 2B.
Organic chemistry is complex. Those who study it have alkynes of trouble.
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STEM/STEAM Quotes
A good quote is an excellent accompaniment for any notification on National STEM/STEAM Day.
Science is magic that works.
Kurt Vonnegut
Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.
Rosalind Franklin
Creativity takes courage.
Henry Matisse
Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
Shakuntala Devi
Children these days are very intelligent and brilliant, they are enthusiastic in nature. We need to grow their knowledge, understanding, and curiosity using STEM education.
Bamigboye Olurotimi
Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce costs, to improve comfort, to enhance productivity, and so on.
NR. Narayana Murthy
STEM education is the leveler for all to be successful in the future needs of humanity.
Ian R. McAndrew
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
Engineering is that base qualification that can take you anywhere.
Regina Moran
Playtime is precious. Play builds brain pathways for thinking, creativity, flexibility, empathy, and many other lifelong skills.
Heather Shumaker
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and advance the kind of science, math, and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.
John Glenn
Creativity is the secret sauce to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). It is a STEM virtue.
Ainissa G. Ramirez
Education is not a matter of getting facts and sowing them within brains, but that it is an attitude of mind that you teach children to find out for themselves.
Sir David Attenborough
Captions for Instagram
Art and science of nuts and bolts!
Without ME, Physics is just a theory!
Not sure if you’re a Pi person or a pie person.
Numbers never lie. And that’s why I love math!
Sometimes I make mystakes teaching science, but only periodically.
I need to zinc up what we’ll do next in science!
Technology!
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