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Over the previous 13 years of the College Scholarship Fair’s history, millions of dollars in scholarship money have been offered to students, making college possible and more manageable for many. Additionally, community-based organizations and corporate partners conduct educational workshops at the fair, to help students understand and navigate the college admissions process.
There is another side to STEM and high-paying careers, however, which I learned about at the US News & World Report 2015 STEM Solutions Conference in San Diego. That conference included community college graduates or certificate holders on a few of its panels. These grads were working in high-tech fields for well-established companies—and they were earning a little less than pharmacists.
According to the Atlantic piece, a 2013 Oxford study estimates that nearly 50% of American jobs are at risk of becoming obsolete in the face of technological advances. With technology advancing so rapidly, what’s a student to do? Today’s students could very plausibly be studying for careers that won’t exist much longer after they graduate.
After lunch, I returned to the CGI Annual Meeting and attended a session on Achieving Universal Quality Education, which I’ll be writing about next week. But after that session I ran into one of the students on Earlham’s winning team—Iman Cooper, whose megawatt smile is hard to overlook. I also met Wyclife Omondi, another member of the four-person team, who is originally from Kenya. I didn’t get to meet the other two team members, Leslie Ossete, originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sonia Kabra, who hails from India, so I resolved to attend the Earlham alumni event—which had now become a Hult Prize celebration—that night.
Whichever is the case for you, in this challenge you’ll learn what you need to do to excel this semester by setting the stage for success in the term’s first 30 days.
