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STEM Programs: How to Choose the Right Major

STEM Education Guide

Let’s explore some essential questions to consider as you explore STEM education. This will help to encourage their critical thinking, a skill they’ll take with them throughout their lives and into their college higher education. A student can follow scientist role models through other avenues or on social media.

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Delve Talks: Winnie Karanja, Maydm

Maydm

As a high school student, Winnie had a passion for both math and the social sciences. Her teachers pushed her into the “easier” path of social sciences rather than encourage her interest in STEM subjects. They need mentors and educators who encourage them to pursue the harder subjects and more ambitious careers.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

Sadi Carnot was born in 1796, and was largely educated by his father until he went to college in 1812. Sadi Carnot was by that point a well-educated but professionally undistinguished French military engineer. .): Lazare Carnot died in 1823. He ends his piece with: In (2) the hedging is interesting.

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus). Rick is doing great (at 15) despite his unorthodox education. But it also led him to the idea that the universe must be a giant cellular automaton—whose program he could invent.