Sixth-grade students shuffled from room to room at St. John of the Cross Catholic School on Tuesday to learn various aspects of biomedical engineering.
This is the second year students will work to solve a human need while they explore advanced sciences and health issues.
Students from St. John, Our Lady of the Lake and Sts. Robert and William schools listened to science professionals speak about the value of advanced technology and learned how prosthetics are created.
The presenters told students that inventors are needed, and shared some of the current problems in the industry that would be very valuable to solve.
Tracy Davis, a Euclid public schools teacher and enrichment teacher at St. John, said she wants to highlight the importance of higher math and science.
“We’re trying to get people to realize that unless you up the ante in terms of math and science, you’re not going to get those high-paying jobs. (Euclid) is a hotbed of biomedical engineering technology and many of the people are coming in from the outside to get these jobs,” she said.
Davis also said it is important for students to be exposed to multiple options early so they can pursue the right education.
“If they can meet the challenge and get excited … and realize in middle school in sixth grade and realize, ‘Oh my goodness if I really like this and I want to do it I’m going to have to do (Advanced Placement) math, I’m going to have to start right now,’ ” she said.
In addition to being exposed to better opportunities in well-paying fields, the students also will have the chance to compete in Akron’s BEST Medicine engineer fair. BEST stands for Bridging Engineering, Science and Technology; and last year, many students from St. John won awards in the competition.
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news-herald.com
This is the second year students will work to solve a human need while they explore advanced sciences and health issues.
Students from St. John, Our Lady of the Lake and Sts. Robert and William schools listened to science professionals speak about the value of advanced technology and learned how prosthetics are created.
The presenters told students that inventors are needed, and shared some of the current problems in the industry that would be very valuable to solve.
Tracy Davis, a Euclid public schools teacher and enrichment teacher at St. John, said she wants to highlight the importance of higher math and science.
“We’re trying to get people to realize that unless you up the ante in terms of math and science, you’re not going to get those high-paying jobs. (Euclid) is a hotbed of biomedical engineering technology and many of the people are coming in from the outside to get these jobs,” she said.
Davis also said it is important for students to be exposed to multiple options early so they can pursue the right education.
“If they can meet the challenge and get excited … and realize in middle school in sixth grade and realize, ‘Oh my goodness if I really like this and I want to do it I’m going to have to do (Advanced Placement) math, I’m going to have to start right now,’ ” she said.
In addition to being exposed to better opportunities in well-paying fields, the students also will have the chance to compete in Akron’s BEST Medicine engineer fair. BEST stands for Bridging Engineering, Science and Technology; and last year, many students from St. John won awards in the competition.
Source:
news-herald.com
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