Take The STEM Works For Me Quiz To Help You Figure Out What Area Of STEM Best Suits You!

Take the STEM Works for Me Quiz to help you figure out what area of STEM best suits you!

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Problem

STEM education has largely prioritized the work of white men, while minimizing, omitting, or perpetuating harmful stereotypes about the knowledge and contributions of STEM leaders of color.

Students from communities underrepresented in STEM careers may be unaware of STEM career opportunities beyond the basics, and they often don’t “see” themselves represented in the field, making them feel like they don’t belong.

Solution

Educate yourself about how you can get paid to follow your passion and do world-changing work through STEM. Then educate your friend(s) about real-life STEM professionals, so that they can find their dream STEM careers, too.

by Comicname

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what the fuck does this say

Class field trip at Profound Microfarms today. I learned so much from Jeff and the farm techs. When the pandemic started, they adapted by offering home delivery. The quality of these greens were outstanding. The industrial supply chain for grocery stores takes 3ish weeks to reach the dinner plate of Americans. By then, the shelf life is maybe a week or two before those greens start looking wilty. These are picked at peak ripeness, and are delivered a day before delivery! This shortens the distance driven to our homes, by effectively cutting out a good chunk of the middle men involved.

Random thoughts and questions:

I look forward to learning more. Maybe I can apply this knowledge in my next job or home?

Does anyone know someone who has experience with 3D-printing homes, or shipping container gardens?

https://getchipdrop.com offers free woodchuck mulch

https://grodan.com was the seeding substrate they used to germinate under red and blue lights.

Greenhouses may not be 100% sustainable rn. The monthly costs for the Profound Microfarms is:

- $1,000 to $2,000/mo for electricity. Though maybe cheaper to run the greenhouses 24 hours than in 12 hour increments, since turning the automatic systems on and off is a sizable tax on power.

- $100 to $200/mo for water (Collin county also taxes additional homes that reclaim rainwater)

- $600 to $1,000/mo for propane for the greenhouses themselves.

Metrics collected within the greenhouse:

- water temperature

- dissolved oxygen

- air temperature (72°F - 73°F is what PMF aims for)

- Jeff also noted that lower, more squat ceiling greenhouses are more difficult to control temperature and humidity-wise.

Common insects in the geeenhouse:

- aphids. Aphids, APHIDS -- Jeff noted that they use a combination of ladybugs, predatory wasps, and praying mantis to help regulate when aphids are apparent in the closed greenhouse system.

Greenhouses in Texas need to be oriented North to South, and away from all over-reaching shadows and tree cover. Fans and an insulating wall need to be built on the Northside.

Since you got this far, NFT is an acronym for a style of hydroponic farming that stands for nutrient film technique.

Collin County Master Gardening (https://ccmgatx.org) offers classes to become a master gardener that I may be looking into for the future!

Stay curious!

Cultivation

by Dorothea Tanning

Cultivating people can be arduous,

With results as uncertain as weather.

Try oysters, meerkats, turnips, mice.

My mouse field was a triumph of

Cultivation—pink noses poking

Through quilts of loam, scampering

In the furrows—until the falling

Dwarves (it was that time of year)

Began landing on my field. Fear for

Its harvest had me down on hands

And knees muttering, “Not here,”

My nails clawed at tangles of fat

Dwarves crushing mouse families.

Then, unbelievably, it was over.

By morning every dwarf, maddened

By nibbling mice, had fled the field.

Now, as before, each day, dozens

Of perfect mice leave for the city.

There, they have made many friends

Among computers, and with them

Are developing skills inconceivable

To their forebears. Already, these

Cultivated mice and their computers

Penetrate guilty secrets. Soon they will

Prevail over the turmoil that defines

This darkest of ages. And they will

Find me, asleep in my cave.