What’s Right With Our Schools: Chattanooga Girl’s Leadership Academy Submarine Builders
CHATTANOOGA, TN (WDEF) – Did you know that over the next 10 years, America’s submarine industry will have to hire 100,000 skilled employees to meet the Navy’s growing demand? Learning Blade is making sure that some local students have the skills they need to meet that need. We go below the surface at Chattanooga’s Girl’s Leadership Academy in “What’s Right With Our Schools.”
Jerry Wooden is the CEO for eDynamic Learning.
He explains, ” eDynamic Learning is the largest provider of Career Education for students in North America. And I’m here today to talk about an exciting new partnership, a public private partnership, with blue Forge Alliance and Buildssubmarine.com. Bringing STEM education to middle school students around the country. And particularly in four new states.”
Wooden continues, “Learning blade our middle school STEM curriculum that’s aligned to standards across the country, is a great opportunity for students to explore middle school STEM careers in areas where we have a vast shortage in manufacturing and engineering in the workforce. Ultimately what we’re trying to do is expose students to career opportunities they may not even be aware of. And when you think about the STEM career industry, jobs are growing faster than we can keep up. In fact, we expect to need a 200,000 more STEM jobs in Tennessee in the next four years. And by using this type of curriculum and exposing the students to those jobs early, we get the opportunity to build that Workforce for tomorrow.
Sylvia Davis is the Principal at CGLA.
She says, “The positions that were discussed uh that the young ladies had an opportunity to explore while in the classroom. It exposes them to something new. It gives them another avenue. It opens up another door, another chance for them to explore the world, see the world, take math science technology engineering and take it to a whole another level.”
Jerry Wooden concludes, “We’re launching a new mission in the curriculum, all about the building designing and manufacturing of submarines. And it’s exciting because students get to explore all new career fields, and all new forms of Science and Technology in that field. At the end of the day awareness is what’s most important. What I hope students see in the curriculum that they’re using, is a is a whole set of opportunities that they were never aware of. And as they make decisions, academic choices throughout the rest of their career, they remember the things that inspired them and the things that were interesting them along the way. If they do that, then we’ve accomplished our goal.”
