Timothy Brown, Eddy Martinez and William Terry

The team’s innovative teaching idea, “STEM-ing the Gap Between Education and Career Readiness,” focuses on providing Career Technical Education (CTE) students with modern technology and resources that were not previously available to these individuals.  After implementing and developing their skills in various areas through the use of virtual reality tools, students will create "do-it-yourself” style videos with modern professional HD cameras to demonstrate their unique and impressive skillsets. This will provide students with a digital video portfolio of their capabilities for sharing with prospective employers, post-secondary institutions and scholarship organizations. Brown and his team believe this program will prepare students to enter the workforce by teaching workplace-appropriate behaviors and will allow them to participate in job shadowing programs, apprenticeships and a variety of interview opportunities for beginning their careers.