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Planning for Your Teacher Letters of RecommendationHow To Write An Inspired College Essay
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How Many Colleges Should You Apply To?Ten Exciting Careers for STEM Students to Explore
What exactly does a STEM career look like? Peruse this list of ten exciting professions open to STEM students in pursuit of interesting, exciting, and ...
Outside Scholarships – what you need to know.
Frustrated trying to find outside scholarship money? What you need to know when searching for outside scholarships: Parents and students are often asking how and where to search for outside scholarships. Spring and Summer are the time that juniors should be searching...
Admission Strategy #3: 5 Things You Did Not Know to Ask During Your College Visit
Admissions Strategy #3: 5 Things You Did Not Know to Ask During Your College Visit You probably already know the basics of what to ask when you are visiting prospective colleges—majors offered, costs, how many students attend, etc. But there are a lot of questions you...
Pivoting to College Admissions: Follow Susan’s Journey
Pivot delivers action. A shift in perspective. Pivoting means, I embrace new ideas, take risk, and am willing to explore opportunities that I might have never considered before. This has been my mindset for as long as I remember. I use this strategy as I guide...
Hit The Road
Visiting a college campus becomes an essential way for you to evaluate if a college is the right fit for you. Campus visits can identify colleges that seem great on paper but may have the wrong campus vibe; alternatively, one that seems uninteresting on the website...
Turning STEM into STEAM
A Case for the Arts in STEM Education Art and Technology: A Necessary Combination. The education field is crowded with writers and educators asking for the inclusion of the arts in STEM education, with voices as diverse as Senator Kamala Harris and former Cisco...
STEM Education at US Service Academies – volume one: US Military Academy at West Point
The United States Military Academy -- West Point -- is a four-year college dedicated to training officers in the US Army. You can read more about STEM careers in the military - including the Army - in our post on the general subject. Today, we will take a deep dive...
How did the modern electric grid come to be?
Whenever The Stemwinder has some free time, the best use of that time is to read. When it is time for futuristic out of the box thinking, science fiction is the genre of choice. Whether old-school Isaac Asimov, or contemporaries like William Gibson and Neil...
Managing Expectations During The Final College Countdown
Let’s talk expectations. They may not be the first things that come to mind when you think college, but they have a lot to do with the stress and anxiety that surrounds this time of year for high school seniors. That may be because everywhere you go you’re getting...
College Admissions Timeline
We all know that the college admissions process is complicated and deadline driven. With enough moving parts to make your head spin, students and parents are often stressed and anxious about completing each step on time. When do I take the SAT’s? When do I apply for...
7 Girls Running Our World This #WomensDay
You probably woke up to a million posts about International Women’s Day on your Facebook and Instagram feeds this morning. Great, but you know what? Women should be celebrated everyday, not just today. Every hour of every day, women are doing amazing things. And now...