Science, Technology, Engineering and Math meet Business in the Classroom
This week we are joined by Doug Oppliger, Director of the High School Enterprise Program at Michigan Technological University. The High School Enterprise program is "a program that gets students organized in groups that operate like businesses." The students handle the project from budgets and planning to completion with the help of a teacher/coach.
Projects in the High School Enterprise program are STEM based (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and may last several semesters or school years.
Doug describes the goal of the project: "The overarching goal is to get more students interested in STEM careers..." He also adds that many other disciplines are needed, buisiness, marketing, and communications all play an important part of the program, "it's not just science, it's lots of things altogether in getting these projects done."
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