Highlights

What: STEM4US! Summit to Save Our Youth: Innovative Ways to Engage and Keep Youth Safe this Summer & Beyond

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022

Time: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM (EST)

Where: YouTube

Schedule 

• 9:00 AM - 9:10 AM: Welcome by STEM4US! Representatives & Roll call

• 9:10 AM - 9:15 AM: Introduction of Moderators

• 9:15 AM - 9:20 AM: Introduction of Speakers

• 9:20 AM - 9:35 AM: Initial Question to Speakers, Brief Opening Remarks

• 9:35 AM - 10:00 AM: Moderated Question & Answer 

• 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM: Yoga Intermission

• 10:20 AM - 10:50 AM: Audience Question & Answer Session

• 10:50 AM - 11:00 AM: Closing Remarks

• 11:00 AM: End

Background Talking Points

• Our nation continues to be challenged by COVID.  Keeping students and educators safe in classrooms has been particularly problematic since the return to in-person education. 

• There have been 27 school shootings this year alone

• Recently, a 15-year-old Michigan high school student opened fire in school killing 4 and shooting 7 others, including one teacher.  On the morning of the shooting, his parents were called to the school because of fears about the student harming his classmates but it was reported that they refused to take him home from school.

• Another shooting occurred in Uvalde, Texas where a man walked into an elementary school and killed 19 children and 2 teachers. All the while 19 police officers stood outside and waited.

• Over the weekend a shooting occurred at a high school graduation party in Soccoro, Texas. At a party with around a hundred teenagers, five were injured with two them in critical condition.

• It's reported that 83 people have been shot in schools in the US this year.

• Violence in and around schools has also spiked during the Pandemic. 

• We are hosting this conversation to address the crisis of violence and how this issue is impacting the nation’s goal to build a cyber workforce sufficient enough to respond to the increasing cybersecurity threats to our country’s infrastructure.