STEMventures 2: Cure Diseases, Build and Fix Machines

[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.