A path for STEM outreach and sustainability education [STEM Education]

Effective science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education should encourage students to think holistically about the impact they will have on society beyond the classroom. It should encourage students to imagine, and problem solve for a better world in which we all strive to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). STEM outreach should ensure that the makers and doers of STEM projects are empowered by mentors who want to have their own purpose surpassed by more innovative ideas of the next generation so that humanity is propelled forward – together. This article provides both conceptual and pragmatic examples of this vision for STEM outreach and sustainability and challenges the reader to start engaging these ideas towards the vision set out thirty-seven years ago called “Our Common Future.”