Citing the Lack of Diversity in STEM, Dr. Calvin Mackie Calls for a New Approach to Advance STEM Education

Citing the Lack of Diversity in STEM, Dr. Calvin Mackie Calls for a New Approach to Advance STEM Education

Dr. Mackie, a Leading STEM Educator, Warns of Consequences for Communities of Color

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Speaking to medical engineers at the University of Minnesota Institute for Engineering in Medicine, Dr. Calvin Mackie warned conference attendees that America must diversify science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields to ensure that technological advances can benefit populations of color. Calling STEM a “life or death” issue, Dr. Mackie urged medical engineers to help bring more diversity to STEM fields by changing the approach to STEM education. Dr. Mackie, an award-winning mentor, inventor, author, and former engineering professor, said that technology inexplicably hasn’t always worked on people of color.Dr. Mackie believes having more Black and Brown STEM experts working on these issues would help ease the concerns.

New Orleans Fox-8 Takes a Comprehensive Look at STEM NOLA

New Orleans Fox-8 Takes a Comprehensive Look at STEM NOLA

New Orleans Fox-8 takes a comprehensive look at STEM NOLA, the leading affiliate of the STEM Global Action movement, and how its programs help K-12 children in New Orleans, and across the country, achieve in the Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. The newscast highlights the work of Dr. Calvin Mackie, who launched STEM NOLA in 2013 and has impacted more than 125,000 children and 5,100 schools across the U.S and in five countries.