STEM Fiesta gets underway

about the science, technology, engineering and math fields — or stem. it’s all leading up to tomorrow’s stem fiesta one project: tackling the challenge of living on mars. high school teams from across the borderland put together their best designs for how scientists could possibly live and work in the harsh martian environment in the future. this is all for a stem competion happening this week. their work will be judged by architects and engineers from around the region on friday. and joing us now are mark hug, the executive vp of product and marketing for the individual life insurance business at prudential and joyce wilson — ceo of workforce solutions borderplex. first of all, lets talk about the interest in incorporating the arts this year… it’s now longer stem it’s stem plus arts – which turns into steam. how did this come about? 1000 middle high students will be participating tomorrow learning about architecture, robotics, culinary arts. it’s important to get the kids involved at a younger age. 40 high school teams competing cash and prizes and scholarships. the goal is raise student awareness about career opportunities in science, technology, engineering, math and art disciplines. this year there are seven stem and art high school competitions in addition to workshops. the first one will be from 8:00am to 4:30 pm tomorrow. at the region 19 head start on the 11-thousand 600 block of chito samaniego drive solutions borderplex. first of all, lets talk about the interest in incorporating the arts this year… it’s now longer stem it’s stem plus arts – which turns into steam. how did this come about? 1000 middle high students will be participating tomorrow learning about architecture, robotics, culinary arts. it’s important to get the kids involved at a younger age. 40 high