RCSA joined with Orlando Science Center and other STEM advocates to assemble in Tallahassee for STEM Day at the Florida Capitol on Thursday, January 25. STEM Day provides a forum to connect with legislators about the critical role that Science Centers and museums play with inspiring and creating the STEM workforce of tomorrow while also advocating for funding to support these efforts.

Our students were stationed inside the Capitol building with their experiments, displays, robots and more!

Throughout the day, legislators visited to take part in hands-on activities while learning how STEM education helps grow Florida’s technological workforce.  Science museums act as a hub for STEM learning and can easily facilitate opportunities between industry, education and the public. Collaborations between science museums, corporations and education are key to developing a comprehensive approach to promote STEM learning from cradle to career.

As our world continues to grow more complex and competitive, we are reminded that science matters now more than ever. Science literacy not only leads to a better understanding of life’s problems, but it promotes the development of skills to help solve them. Through study and experimentation, we acquire knowledge, which leads to understanding, innovation and ultimately prosperity. Our youth can save the world and science can help them do it!

Aim high, Rockets!