As we have stated in this blog on many occasions, educating today's students (the leaders of tomorrow) in the fields of science and technology is crucial to maintaining The United States’ place in the world. Other countries are rapidly forging ahead in these areas, recognizing their growing importance in the world of today and tomorrow. Meantime, here at home, we continue to allow our students to enter the adult world with too little training in or enthusiasm for these subjects. STEM is a coalition aimed at correcting this situation, and one that we applaud wholeheartedly!
As a pioneer in the field of science assemblies and hands on science workshops for children, Mobile Ed has been trying for decades to increase awareness of science in schools and raise the interest of children across the country. Science IS fun, and kids recognize this fact if it is placed before them in the right way. Science assemblies show the excitement in science and dazzle children with endless possibilities. Hands on science workshops allow them to learn immediate lessons that inspire them to want to continue learning. We have known this for years. And yet, too often we have been met with reluctance on the part of educators, unwilling to remove students from class time, and oblivious to the greater value, educationally, of time spent in a high quality educational assembly where children can see and learn things impossible to duplicate in a classroom.
STEM is working to promote raising awareness of the importance of instruction in these fields, and to raise the level of accountability to that of reading and math, currently the only subjects tested at a state wide level nationally.
This year Mobile Ed is doubling down on science education. From our inception thirty three years ago, we have always had a heavy emphasis on science. Our very first assembly was a science assembly! This year we offered sixteen different assemblies dealing with some form of science, mathematics or technology. For next year we are raising the bar even more.
Two of our stalwart science assemblies, Chemistry! It Really Matters! and Forces and Motion, are being thoroughly redesigned, rebuilt and refitted with new experiments, new props, new set pieces and a brilliant and exciting new performer. We have added Kidz Science Safari, a brand new hands on science experience for students. And we are adding a new Natural Science live animal assembly, The Circle of Life (more on this major announcement later). All of this in addition to our extremely successful previous programs such as the Sky Dome portable planetarium, The Earth Dome (aka The Earth Balloon), Physics is Fun (with it’s wonderful all day all school hands on science sessions) not to mention Crime Scene Science, Our Changing Climate and all the other great science assemblies for which we have become justly famous.
Our belief is directly in line with the goals and aims of STEM. To become the leaders of tomorrow, our children need a sound and exciting education encompassing science and technology. STEM is leading the way. Mobile Ed Productions’ science assemblies are part of that movement.
Make your school a part of this movement, too. Join with STEM. And call us about bringing to your school a world class science assembly that will help propel your kids into a brave new world!
Geoff Beauchamp is the Regional Manager of Mobile Ed Productions where "Education Through Entertainment" has been the guiding principal since 1979. Mobile Ed Productions produces and markets quality educational school assembly programs in the fields of science, history, writing, astronomy, natural science, mathematics, character issues and a variety of other curriculum based areas. In addition, Mr. Beauchamp is a professional actor with 30 years of experience in film, television and on stage. He created and still performs occasionally in Mobile Ed's THE LIVING LINCOLN.