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Why to choose STEM? (Disaster Risk Reduction)

What's with Disaster Risk Reduction?

         Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) aims to reduce the damage caused by natural hazards like earthquakes, floods, droughts and cyclones, through an ethic of prevention.

         Disasters often follow natural hazards. A disaster's severity depends on how much impact a hazard has on society and the environment. The scale of the impact in turn depends on the choices we make for our lives and for our environment. These choices relate to how we grow our food, where and how we build our homes, what kind of government we have, how our financial system works and even what we teach in schools. Each decision and action makes us more vulnerable to disasters - or more resilient to them.

     Disaster risk reduction includes disciplines like disaster management, disaster mitigation and disaster preparedness, but DRR is also part of sustainable development. In order for development activities to be sustainable they must also reduce disaster risk. On the other hand, unsound development policies will increase disaster risk - and disaster losses.

        When your in STEM, Disaster Risk Reduction is one of your special subjects. This is good for us because we are going to be taught how to respond well in case of disaster, and emergency.

Reflection

Disaster risks are everywhere,

They threaten lives and form despair,

They are in all places at once,

They’re hard to stop and to prevent.

Disaster risk education,

Way to safety and protection,

It teach us to protect ourselves,

From any kind of disasters,

Luckily, in this semester,

We learned of all DRRR,

We can all save millions of lives,

From this education we got,

You’ll only learn DRRR,

When you are enrolling at STEM,

So when you like you’re saving lives,

Join us as we go to STEM,

Why to choose STEM? (Basic Calculus)

What's with calculus? 

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       Learning maths is supposed to be a pretty important thing to do. Counting is important, multiplying is important and percentages are important. But calculus, how important is that? Is it really necessary for us to learn about calculus, trigonometry, algebra and all those other things that most of us are never again going to use in their life?

      Calculus is a branch of mathematics that is all about mapping change. You get a series of mathematical equations that come together to tell you how things change over a period of time. While many of us are never going to use calculus directly, we can still use the lessons learnt. One of the greatest lessons taught in any type of ‘higher’ mathematics is the ability to think about things numerically; to change words into numbers and to visualize how those numbers change over time.

     "Skills are transferable, time is not. Let’s study calculus, it’s not that hard."

How important is STEM?

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM, previously SMET). The term is typically used when addressing education policy and curriculum choices in schools to improve competitiveness in science and technology development. It has implications for workforce development, national security concerns and immigration policy.

“[Science] is more than a school subject, or the periodic table, or the properties of waves. It is an approach to the world, a critical way to understand and explore and engage with the world, and then have the capacity to change that world..."

— President Barack Obama, March 23, 2015

The expected high demand jobs in the future, probably 2020-2025, are as follows:

• Computer System Analyst
• Systems Software Developer
• Medical Scientist
• Biomedical Engineers
• Computer Engineers
• Civil Engineers
• Mechanical Engineers
• Marine Engineers; & etc.