Perfect controlled demolition of twin chimneys - video

[Toolmaker51]

That is one of those jobs that would be pretty cool to do. In schools, they never talk about about all of the really cool jobs that are available to people.

That's because the really cool jobs are blue collar, with involved skills and don't fill universities with wealthy students. While immense corporations spend real physical time and money on STEM education to support their future; it reflects poorly that trade unions participate so little.

[hemmjo]

That's because the really cool jobs are blue collar, with involved skills and don't fill universities with wealthy students. While immense corporations spend real physical time and money on STEM education to support their future; it reflects poorly that trade unions participate so little.

I was an Industrial Technology teacher for 35 years. Many, perhaps MOST of the original STEM activities were developed by leaders in Industrial Technology classrooms. We used to teach workshops on how to inspire students pursue careers in those good blue collar areas. Now that STEM has become big business big companies that market to the educational "machine" have created "packaged" programs to sell to districts wishing to have a STEM program.

Regrettably, schools have shutdown the Industrial Technology programs that actually created the STEM concept. Now, fueled by the educational materials business, too many STEM programs have morphed away from the truly creative, open ended activity based programs, to "canned" activities where all of the outcomes are known before the activity really begins. Thus, students are once again, cheated out of the true learning the comes with the "...we'll learn more by wandering than searching..." type of activites.