Ask HN: What to include in presentation about STEM to high school students?

Re:Ask HN: What to include in presentation about STEM to hig... by _Schizotypy on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @10:41AM (#19319670)

How about adding in something about scientific research? Personally I find fundamental research more fulfilling than creating products. Learning things about our world is a fascinating adventure. Discarding the S in STEM would be a tragedy, as the S informs the T and E.

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Re:Ask HN: What to include in presentation about STEM to hig... by chrisbennet on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @07:52PM (#19324635)

Unfortunately, the Sciences don’t pay very well. It would be interesting to know what percentage of science majors or phds in science, work in there chosen profession.

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Re:Ask HN: What to include in presentation about STEM to hig... by _Schizotypy on Friday March 08, 2019 @11:31AM (#19339057)

I guess the question then would be do you care THAT much about money or do you want to help further humanity's knowledge? Plus private R&D can pay quite nicely, people only seem to consider University research as "science work" when that is absolutely not the case, its just the worst compensated science work. (which is another problem, because for the information we get it SHOULD be well compensated)

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