STEM Defines Our Future: Soft Skills and STEM Success

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Through engaging videos, lessons, and teaching strategies, this initiative guides you in helping students connect the dots between what they are learning in their traditional STEM classes, soft skills like communication and creativity, and the rewarding STEM careers of the future.

What's Inside the Guide?

As part of First Book and GM’s STEM Defines Our Future series, First Book developed videos that showcase a variety of STEM Fields and specialties — such as design, engineering, and manufacturing — and highlight the important role nontechnical skills play in career satisfaction and success. This guide includes links to each video and additional support tools you can use to develop and nurture these nontechnical soft skills in your students.

The videos include:

• How to Build a Car (13 min)

• Communication (7 min)

• Teamwork & Collaboration (6 min)

• Creativity & Problem Solving (7 min)

• Leadership Mindset (7 min)

• Inclusivity & Empathy (9 min)

• Resilience (6 min)

• STEM Defines Our Future (7 min)