[Upbeat music begins…]
[An image appears showing your character in a mall setting.]
Hey you, are you ready for your STEMventure? Careers in math and science can take you to some unexpected places, like under water.
Hold your breath.
[The image shows an underwater scene with your character in scuba gear. A broken down submarine appears.]
[Sound plays: glug, glug, glug.]
Who do you call when your submarine breaks down? A mechanical engineering technician of course!
[The image adds a mechanical engineering technician.]
[Sound plays: ding!]
Mechanical engineering technicians:
- Build and fix machines
- Work with his or her hands
- Solve machine problems
They work with engineers to build and fix all kinds of machines: from artificial hearts, to air conditioners, to submarines.
[The image shows the mechanical engineering technician fixing the submarine.]
[Sounds play: sonar pings, gears grinding, clunk, swish, vroom.]
[The image shows the fixed submarine moving away.]
And they’re off.
[The image shows a smoke-filled park with your character and many sick people standing around.]
[Sounds play: cough cough, sneeze sneeze.]
Uh oh, this doesn’t look good. When so many people get sick, epidemiologists want to know why.
[The image adds an epidemiologist.]
[Sound plays: ding!]
Epidemiologists:
- Study people and places
- Travel to foreign countries
- Use math to help people
- Discover causes of diseases
They’re disease detectives; they use science, math and statistics to figure out why a group people get sick and how to make people healthier.
[Sound plays: typing sounds – click click click click click click.]
And while the epidemiologist figures out what’s going on, physician assistants can take care of the patients.
[The image adds a physician assistant.]
[Sound plays: ding!]
Physician assistants:
- Examine patients
- Run medical clinics
- Treat sick people
They do pretty much everything doctors do and work everywhere, especially where a regular doctor might not be available.
[The image shows the physician assistant giving medication to the sick people.]
[Sound plays: pop.]
Ah ha!
[The image shows the epidemiologist pointing out a polluting smoke stack in the distance. The mechanical engineering technician appears and turns off the smoke stack, clearing the air.]
[Sound plays: clunk.]
Everyone better? Excellent.
[The image shows your character at an automotive repair facility. A wrecked car appears.]
[Sound plays: poof.]
That car is in rough shape. But to an automotive master mechanic that’s nothing.
[The image adds an automotive master mechanic.]
[Sound plays: ding!]
Automotive master mechanics:
- Work on cars, trucks, motorcycles
- Install complicated parts
- Make cars more fuel efficient
- Fix cars to be fast and safe
They know how every part of a vehicle works and can install any kind of complicated part you can think of.
[The image shows the automotive master mechanic fixing the car.]
[Sounds play: clicking, drilling, snap, woosh.]
[The image shows the fixed car in perfect shape.]
See? Nice job.
[The image shows your character driven in the car back to the mall setting.]
Build and fix machines.
[The image adds the mechanical engineering technician.]
Help sick people.
[The image adds the physician assistant.]
Fix all kinds of vehicles.
[The image adds the automotive master mechanic.]
Solve disease mysteries.
[The image adds the epidemiologist.]
You can do any of this, and you can make a lot of money too.
[The image shows money raining down from above.]
[Sound plays: sound of money clinking.]
Talk to your teachers about science and math camps, technology and engineering clubs, and science, technology, engineering and math classes to get started now. Go to CareerZone to learn more.