guess get a degree in stem our job instead of what's available out there so that i'll go i'll tell you about myself my name is monica burch i actually have a degree in electrical engineering i started off working at a software project which is a power company and arizona and i really like to ask to say it was funny when i first started i wanted to be an astronaut metals my goal so i decided i wasn't going to aerospace engineering but what happened is i went to a program i am from alabama so and at tuskegee university and during that program it was a my program during that program they introduced  to other forms of engineering and while i was there i decided i wanted to go into electrical engineering but still specialized in the aerospace into space i got into school that university of alabama and when i got there they went over the different forms of electrical engineering and one of the things i was really interested in was power engineering so i decided to focus on power while i was in school so went to school  first job a software project in arizona why was there a half what we call they call the rotation so the engineers would take six months and they rotate to different places are different companies with in the main company of thought and project and i rotated to various companies various sections and one of those i really really liked was computer applications so at that time i decided to start to programming so i was programming from there i decided i wanted to do something different i want to move back to new jersey with my husband and then i moved into the system the database and then security and then recruited and so i did a lot of things in my experience but one of the things i started when i had my children was construct my company called distress you and what i do with this trip was and i do work shelf for kids in stem science technology engineering math so the first thing we're going to do is a project for you and stamp and this is one that everybody actually has at home i don't lot of parents always tell me i'm out of my kids always tell that when i talk about making a simple circuit they say oh i have that at home so usually you might have what's called the snap circuit jr so if you have that at home get it out we're going to do a simple project another one that my actually see the numbers and letters which is a great thing to actually use so then to take the great out next day when do the batteries and the batteries for the provide a power which is something we use and if you think about similar to water so what we're going to do is we're going to build what we call closed circuit that means everything has to touch everything has to be closed if it was water in a pipe if there was open in the water would come out so if you think about that  have think about you have to have a closed circuit for something to work and if you don't have a close circuit then it won't work so first thing they do is a battery and batteries are very very simple and we actually would do experiment at some point on  ever a light bulb and we'll put that together switch that they show here and it's actually i think a single pole double throw switch so it's pretty nice when we use that so right now this is what my circuit looks like i have my battery i have my light and i have my switches on if you show your if you should have the same thing so very simple easy way easy easy easy way to expose your child to spam actually gets them interested in there's a lot of things that are out there but this is one of the first things i always start with for any of my students i start with electricity i don't use this all the time because i have a lot of kids but i'm going to actually do it again and another use another kit that i actually use in my classes but this  also used to wear it just depends on the students i have i teach k to twelve and sometimes i teach preschool so i use this and i teach my younger kids so at this this is what we call open circuit so nothing's  connected to switch to the battery and then i'm going to take a number of two wire which is considered their length and i'm going to put it here and put one here ls so simple the kids are not that expensive and it's an easy way to exposure champ of them now one of things that we have to do as parents is that when we do buy we want to make sure a kid actually uses so what i usually recommend is you start off with a simple circuit you have your kid do something it depends on how much the exposure you want to start up with you can have do something want to we even have him do something every day if you get him home during the summer it's an excellent kid to buy during the summer to have him do something every actually going to talk about doing this a different way because when you introduce electricity it robotic and one of things i think even when you're teaching robotics to students is that you start off just teaching them about their main thing that every person should know about before they start on anything because even in robotics if they have a broken if something breaks and they can't and they need to fix that they need to know what's a conductor and what's i feel as though my mother being a stem structure has really influenced my life and influenced how i really learned in school and how i learned like different concepts even if it doesn't have anything to do with with engineering it affects how i think about math or english you know taking things step by step and really breaking things down into little pieces so it's very easy to understand ok thanks but so what we're going to do now is we're going to do another experiment which is a simple two so this is if you don't want to buy that yet which is i think they run for maybe about thirty five dollars or less i'm not really sure now they have one amazon actually have one my web site too so you look and you can go to either one but this is another one which is simple wires that with only use and these are called alligator clippers and i'm going to give on a set too so he can take you to something i it's my light i'm a put my stuff out here so you can see it and because i have everything in front of me and that's where i need batteries for me so same thing i just did with the kit it cost less when you decide if you want to do this route but it is another way to teach electricity to your students what we did not do here is we don't have a switch so if we wanted to add a switch we could actually do it any type of conductor and for example this is a piece of copper so we want to use this as a conductor we could do this and i think i have another w  done in other states too but one of the reasons i think system is important is because they i read an article a while back that said and twenty twenty i think over seventy percent blended all of those disciplines together so by default if you do you're in the technology field you have to touch on math you touch on piety touch on engineering but if you're in and if you're in engineering field you touch on all three to however if you are in the math field you don't have to math i always think stands alone and science uses technology and it uses some generic in and it uses math too but it tends it doesn't really need them as much as technology engineering these are four disciplines but if you think about them there's a lot of jobs out there that are stimulated that require you to go to college and some that was quite you don't have to go to college so one of the things we're going to explore in this show is the jobs that require you to go to college again and the ones you don't have to go to college that and so if that is one of the goals the question is you should expose your child to sin so i actually have what we call education to the next level with is another class i teach to parents talk about exposing their kids to different things now one of the things you do when you're actually educating your child for the next level is as parents we do a lot of the for thing for our kids so i would take them to different sports they violin i did violin violet can't remember so we have them to the arts and we had two sports but one of the things that as parents we do we do that but we don't do a lot of exposure to stem so the goal is always and that their knowledge base is higher then i would say eighty five percent of whatever subject they're doing the next thing is richmond whether the classes are out there you want to rich their class i have my older son who's not with me he loves history when the things we did with sam is what we always would buy different books and histories so that he had things to read he was saying to enrich his experience with history because he had all these different books he read because that's what he loved so one of the things you want to parents final check out love and enrich it that love to do what's out there if there's books or if there's programs just make sure you have it help them in that path the next thing is i call ed your and that is to stem so there are a lot of different stamp programs out there today and one of the bases parents we should do is actually try to register your kid one of those and if you can't this easy like i said you can come  you can get the kid inventor and you can introduce your child to electronics this way but you want to expose him to stand the see if they like it and start young people who've gone with that because in the ahead if there are any type of science i i tend to lean more till the engineering part of the stem but there's a lot of nice them programs that are science based there are a lot that a math base there are a lot of just technology coding in program was a really nice two and the schools these days actually offered a lot of good courses stem related courses and there are a lot of things where the plies to the coding and programming there is a great class and i thought i would mention it because i i actually like it they just add it to a lot of schools that which is what they wanted this year it's called a p computer principle so want to tell us a little bit about that class that he took this year to basically the class starts off with the basics of computing like really like you know kind of like the the vocabulary and the like what we need to know and then eventually it goes actually the goal with that classes to if you have a student because some parents don't expose or kisses stead and young so they get into high school what happens is that they are kind of low nervous about taken those more math and more science type horses because they just didn't get that exposure are they're low was scared of programming so they're a computer physics principles sorry if you computed principle class as actually a way of exposing your students suggest your high schooler to take it but again our goal is always to make sure you expose your child to stem type programs stems type books whatever is out there because goal is always to try to construct them so i want to thank you so much for actually joining us today we were all vonn will will be with me some time some time but each time we'll do a different project a