Mission LEO is a building block for the future careers of young children.
It is all about building self-confidence, boosting leadership skills, teamwork concepts and helping kids imagine bigger possibilities.
Successful people generally start their careers with a good foundation in elementary school, and expand that knowledge in their high school years.
As we grow, our imaginations are informed by our experiences, through reading books and biographies, exploring outdoors, playing video games and within the school environment.
Mission LEO helps children expand their imaginations through a hands-on environment, not just a computer program. Here, they actually experience the pressure of ensuring a mission’s success. They use trial and error to find solutions. They learn to face the consequences of their decisions.
Mission LEO shows kids what real-world careers in STEM are all about.
There has been great concern about tech companies struggling find qualified people to employ in the United States.
The outsourcing of jobs to other countries to perform IT work is one example of how these companies have attempted to solve this problem. By making arrangements to allow foreign workers qualified in IT skills to come over and fulfill the tech company’s needs for a highly-skilled workforce, but at a lower cost, takes away that country’s ability to employ their own people in these tech-related positions. There have been several documented instances where a country’s employed IT workers have taught their own replacements from another country to perform their jobs.
“Some 70% of [highly-skilled] jobs will require some training or education beyond high school, but only 31% of our kids are achieving this higher level of learning today. If we don’t fix the imbalance, we’ll most likely import the talent, which means our own kids, especially those kids from more economically challenged backgrounds, will miss out on the opportunities they so clearly deserve.”
Our youth need to be engaged in STEM careers so that we can continue to grow our highly-skilled American workforce.
There is a startling shortage of STEM teachers, especially in minority or low-income communities.
Without STEM teachers, both at the elementary and college level, our children will fall behind in creativity, scientific research and discovery, and technical know-how.
Mission LEO, as many other STEM programs, wants to ensure that your child learns about STEM concepts, even if they are not currently or consistently taught in your child’s classroom.
In two years, there will be one million STEM jobs open in the United States that will go unfilled if we don’t close the STEM education gap.
Question: Why are there so many STEM programs external to the schools? Are they not supposed to be taught in school?