Website Spotlight: ATETV

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of ATETV.org. All opinions are 100% mine.

I just learned about the site ATETV (Advanced Technological Education Television). ATETV is a site sponsored by the National Science Foundation via a grant to produce a variety of videos. The project was funded as an attempt to attract students into the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and math). The US Labor Department predicts that the demand for employees capable in these fields will exceed the rate at which students adequately prepared in these fields are trained. These jobs include some great fields like robotics and aviation, work on "green" jobs such as wind farms, and also bringing technology to "old" fields like agriculture.

As a math teacher, I find a site like this particularly interesting. Videos are short, with many right around 2-3 minutes long, and others around 7-8 minutes, so they would be easy to incorporate in any classroom. There are some videos really useful to everyone, such as Building Your Resume While Still in School and Using Math and Science in the Real World as well as some very specific ones like Fuel Cells are the Future. Videos can be browsed by popularity, location, category, and date, and there are even some special FAQ videos, answering questions that include "What kind of salary can I make?" and "Are there opportunities for women?"

If you have kids interested in math and science, this would be a great site. If you're a math or science teacher, I highly encourage you to check it out. And even if your kids aren't interested in the STEM fields right now, it's still worth viewing a few, just so they can see what's out there.