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STEMventures 2: Cure Diseases, Build and Fix Machines

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[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.