Mardi Gras is also past. My wife is from New Orleans; we go each year to visit family and enjoy the festivities. So what do these two events have in common? At Mardi Gras Muses’ parade we met Wayne Fernandez, Director of Development of the George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts. The foundation provides grants and loans of artwork to support teaching of art in our schools, both in Louisiana and many other states. Seehttp://georgerodriguefoundation.org更多细节。
As Wayne explained, art is as important to growing our future engineers as is math and science. A technician or AI system may be able to do calculations; it takes an engineer to have the creativity to use existing tools to create new and better designs. And so Wayne’s program pushes not just STEM but STEAM for Science-Technology-Engineering-Art-Math support for our impressionable primary school students.
在过去的几年中，我们当地的PSPE分会一直在做同样的事情，例如Barnes其导演德里克·吉尔曼（Derek Gillman）由博物馆和宴会主题演讲。看www.pspe-philly.orgfor our full program. The point is that we engineers need to not only promote support for more teachers of math and science, but also for programs to encourage grade school (and through high school and beyond) students in the arts.
