STEM: Connecting Educators and Industry

Streamlining was whole purpose behind pairing up educators and industry during our STEM tour in AR1. We have so many open jobs in the 1st District, and yet each year thousands of students graduate and don't apply for them. A lot of times that's because people just don't know what's available to them. During the tour I had many teachers tell me that they didn't even know these types of good paying jobs existed for their students right here in the 1st District. My takeaway from the week of the STEM tour and the rest of the August break is that we already have a lot of the tools at our disposal that we need to succeed. We have excellent people, good businesses, and great resources. We just need to do a better job of utilizing and streamlining those gifts.