Current political and academic discourse is riddled with a call for more students to graduate and enter into Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (S.T.E.M.) career fields, with hopes of improving the United States' economic standing in the global economy1. At the same time, there is a waning interest among students in STEM fields; significant research has been conducted looking at ways to increase interest. Traditional education methods used in the past leave room for improvement when it comes to encouraging students to pursue science careers2. Educators are seeing students with considerably different characteristics than previous generations3. Today's students are digitally literate, connected, immediate, experiential, social, prefer teams, achievement oriented, value engagement, value experience, visual and kinesthetic, and impact driven. All of this suggests that a change is needed in the way science is presented in K-12 education.
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