What is STEM? Why is it important?

The STEM Initiative is a national initiative put in place to address a national problem. The issue is that we, as a nation, are falling down on the job of educating our children, most specifically in the STEM (science, technology, mathematics, and engineering) fields. With that, we, as a nation, are losing the ability of the children of our future to compete both as individuals and as a nation on an International level.

It is a big problem.

This is an across the board, as a nation, level problem. Our citizens are already falling behind educationally and with that, we are also falling behind intellectually. If that does not change soon, we will no longer be able compete on an International level either scientifically or technologically. This is a time of great economic duress for our nation. Nonetheless, the economy is not our only problem and it may not be our biggest problem at all.

Although this, in very definite ways, filters to the level of individual classrooms, citizens and families, it is very much a national problem and is a whole lot bigger than any one single individual.

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