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The missing piece in Biden’s microchip ambitions: STEM immigration
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But those subsidies, as well as new tax credits for the chip industry, were finally sent to Biden’s desk in late July. Intel isn’t the only company that’s promised to supercharge U.S. projects once that money comes through — Samsung, for example, is suggesting it will expand its new $17 billion chip plant outside of Austin, Texas, to a nearly $200 billion investment. Lawmakers are already touting the subsidies as a key step toward an American renaissance in high-tech manufacturing.
Quietly, however, many of those same lawmakers — along with industry lobbyists and national security experts — fear all the chip subsidies in the world will fall flat without enough high-skilled STEM workers. And they accuse Congress of failing to seize multiple opportunities to address the problem.
STEM help wanted
In Columbus, just miles from the Johnstown field where Intel is breaking ground, most officials don’t mince words: The tech workers needed to staff two microchip factories, let alone eight, don’t exist in the region at the levels needed.
“We’re going to need a STEM workforce,” admitted Jon Husted, Ohio’s Republican lieutenant governor.
But Husted and others say they’re optimistic the network of higher ed institutions spread across Columbus — including Ohio State University and Columbus State Community College — can beef up the region’s workforce fast.
“I feel like we’re built for this,” said David Harrison, president of Columbus State Community College. He highlighted the repeated refrain from Intel officials that 70 percent of the 3,000 jobs needed to fill the first two factories will be “technician-level” jobs requiring two-year associate degrees. “These are our jobs,” Harrison said.
Harrison is anxious, however, over how quickly he and other leaders in higher ed are expected to convince thousands of students to sign up for the required STEM courses and join Intel after graduation. The first two factories are slated to be fully operational within three years, and will need significant numbers of workers well before then. He said his university still lacks the requisite infrastructure for instruction on chip manufacturing — “we’re…
North Rowan High School JROTC attends STEM Camp
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ROWAN COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV) – North Rowan High School (NRHS) Cavaliers Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) cadets attended the JROTC’s first-ever Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) Academy at South Carolina State University (SCSU).
NRHS was one of 45 North and South Carolina high schools that attended.
The camp was appropriately named “Camp Bulldog ‘’ after SCSU’s mascot. Cadets could choose between mechanical engineering, chemistry, nuclear/physics, cyber security, electrical engineering and computer science to explore during camp.
SCSU’s faculty and staff provided all instruction. In addition to classroom instruction, cadets experienced Boeing and Savannah River Plant presentations, were introduced to drone operations and went on field trips to The Citadel and the North Charleston Sewer District.
The camp culminated with each STEM group presenting their final projects to their fellow cadets.
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You do not need to be a Stem genius to succeed in finance and tech
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Karina Robinson is the chief executive of Robinson Hambro, a chief executive advisory and search firm.
I was the worst Spanish equities analyst in the City of London. In 1987, my boss at Morgan Grenfell fired me from my first job after 15 months. He could tell from the back of my neck, he said, that I hated the job.
My boss was almost right. It wasn’t just my neck that railed against the role: I hated it with every bone in my body. Yet I have subsequently had a 35-year career in the City and financial journalism, including being a political and economic correspondent at Bloomberg, a senior editor at The Banker, and Master of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers, a City livery company. Over the past decade, I’ve run my own boutique advisory and search firm, Robinson Hambro, along with other advisory board roles.
But this litany of positions hides a (shameful) secret: I scraped through my maths O level, a UK public exam, with a mediocre “C” grade — much to the bemusement of my maths teacher who anticipated a fail. As for physics, the situation is doubly ironic: I gave it up aged 14, yet have founded The City Quantum Summit, a conference bringing together the scientific and financial communities.
Nor am I alone: I was much reassured to hear that Sir Robert Stheeman, chief executive of the Debt Management Office, which issues UK Treasury bonds, failed his maths O level. Twice.
My experience offers, I hope, some lessons for students in their last years of school and university who are being pressured into studies that are not in tune with their souls. You do not need to be a maths genius, a computer scientist, a PhD in physics or, indeed, an expert in any Stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects to succeed in the financial or tech sectors.
If you aren’t gifted in that way, enjoy every minute studying medieval literature or international relations. For you too might be “a dragoman” — a word I learned when reading Anna Aslanyan’s book, Dancing on Ropes: Translators and the Balance of History, and which describes the unifying thread in my career.
A dragoman was a translator in the Ottoman Empire whose power far exceeded that of…