The IUPUI Center for Young Children offers a valuable and unique STEM classroom learning experience that nurtures your 3 – 6 yr. old child’s inquisitive nature. CYC engages your child in a fun and exciting learning method, the scientific inquiry method, so your child can observe, examine, question, analyze and discover the world around them. The STEM classroom is now enrolling for Fall 2016. For more information, visit childcare.iupui.edu.
STEM Education is important to our country’s long-term competitiveness because it prepares today’s young children for the required competencies of jobs that are growing more technologically advanced by the day.
In 2010, famed early childhood educator and guest speaker at IUPUI, Lilian Katz, wrote a paper entitled, “STEM in the early years.” She wrote, “Extensive experience of working with young children and their teachers confirms the supposition that all children are innately curious and eager to explore their environments and learn about a wide variety of causes and effects. In this sense, our early education pedagogical methods should support these basic dispositions and provide a wide range of contexts for young children to use them.”
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