#NextSTEM - Student #Intern Celise Blackman Interviews Dav about the New Website

In this series, our mission is to have business leaders, arts professionals, educators and others work together to educate the public and the media to the need to continue to make Science Technology Engineering and Math a priority like other countries have such as China.   But STEM is actually incomplete without the Arts. It is clear that Art is an important part of the equation. Listen to this series about Music and Technology, as we "connect the dots"

• Arts education is a key to creativity, and
• Creativity is an essential component of, and spurs innovation, and
• Innovation is, agreed to be necessary to create new industries in the future, and
• New industries, with their jobs, are the basis of our future economic wellbeing.

A win-win situation – low cost – job growth and insuring the future

If we do not connect these dots Arts education will continue to be virtually extinct in our schools.  On the contrary blinded learning can help make STEM more attractive when you incorporate the A and create STEAM.  - With out the right balance of STEM + A, the US's economic future will be at risk of not keeping up with other emerging countries.