ASME INSPIRE Connects with All 50 States

ASME INSPIRE Connects with All 50 States ASME INSPIRE Connects with All 50 States ASME INSPIRE Connects with All 50 StatesFeb. 23, 2018 Students from the Hollywood Academy of Arts and Sciences in Hollywood, Fla., with their teacherbei Carissa Brazeal (far right). Driven by the popularity of and enthusiasm for new, enhanced STEM content aimed directly at middle-school students, ASMEs INSPIRE program is now officially being used by schools in all 50 of the United States and the District of Columbia.Introduced this year, ASMEs INSPIRE Career Exploration an in-class experience that focuses on students creating a personalized journey to explore real-world career paths and skill sets is now in use in nearly 70 percent of the mora than 1,100 schools currently integrating ASMEs INSPIRE programs into their curricula. INSPIRE Career Exploration, along with the flagship program INSPIRE STEM Readiness, currently reach more than 73,000 middle- and high-school students.How does that reach trans late in the classroom? Leylanie, a seventh-grade student at the Hollywood Academy of Arts and Sciences, shared her observations regarding the INSPIRE Innovation Investigation activity during the ASME INSPIRE Connects school visit on Feb. 12.Look no further than the sixth- and seventh-grade students from the Hollywood Academy of Arts and Sciences in Hollywood, Fla., which was visited by ASMEs INSPIRE Classroom Connects team on Feb. 12. During the visit, the schools students tackled the INSPIRE Innovation Investigation activity with zeal and shared how the INSPIRE program opened their minds to all the opportunities engineering and STEM at large can offer.Logan, a seventh-grader who plans to pursue a career in bioengineering, shared that, the INSPIRE program showed me how everything works together people, technology, even simple machines. (They) all rely on one another in order to work perfectly. So everything needs to work in harmony.Another seventh-grader, Leylanie, said that her I NSPIRE experience definitely changes my perspective about how to see the world and how people invent and create things. She went on to say that ASME INSPIRE also showed her how I can change my life and others through learning about new things in science, math, and engineering. Its really cool.For more information on ASME INSPIRE and ASMEs other K-12 STEM education programs, contact Patti Jo Rosenthal, rosenthalpasme.org, or visit https//www.asmefoundation.org.Patti Jo Rosenthal, Programs Philanthropy