A snapshot of young America´s perspective towards STEM

The purpose of this study is to examine third and eighth grade students´ attitudes and knowledge of STEM related careers in an American school culture. For the past several years, we in the Nano Computer Research Group at the University of South Florida, have presented local K-12 institutions with various aspects of our research to raise STEM awareness. This past year we augmented our knowledge module based on past experiences and formalized it to engage 67 students from 4 distinct 3rd and 8th grade classes.