Success StorySTEM Careers



STEM Careers

Author: Casey Townsend

Planning Unit: KSU Administration

Major Program: Science, Engineering, and Technology

Plan of Work: 4-H Youth Development - Science

Outcome: Intermediate Outcome

A six week program took place at Holy Trinity School in Newport, Kentucky with lead STEM Teacher Susan Bier and 30 youth  participants.  Their comfort level to describe how to program a robot was rated 3.27 stars before the program and 3.8 stars after the program took place.  Youth rated 3.23 for their desire to learn more about careers in robotics, coding and programming.






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