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In Celebration of Black History, the Discovery Education STEM Careers Coalition has released a new collection of classroom resources that spotlight leading Black professionals in STEM. Follow along as Dr. Robert Corbin demonstrates how you can introduce your students to the "STEM in them" with over 200 resources designed to uncover students' STEM skills to activate future solution seekers. This exciting content includes resources ranging from hands-on student activations and lessons to the extensive database of career profiles and family activities.

Celebrating our Black Leaders in STEM

Preview career profiles and activities and learn how they can be used in your classroom to uncover STEM skills and activate future STEM leaders.

Jesica Holley

Petroleum Drilling Engineer - Chevron

Petroleum Drilling Engineers are the scientists who explore below Earth for the best places to find oil and natural gas using criteria such as the efficiency of retrieval, safety, and profitability of deposit. They will often specialize in an aspect of drilling operations such as reservoir engineering, drilling engineering, completions engineering, and production engineering.

Brandon James

Aircraft Assembly Mechanic - Boeing

Aircraft Assembly Mechanics use their attention-to-detail to splice together the complex components of aircrafts into a finished product. With potential career pathways in both commercial and military aircraft manufacturing, Aircraft Assembly Mechanics can achieve success in a wide variety of roles.

Uni Blake

Senior Policy Advisor - API

With expertise in addressing community concerns about environmental health issues, Uni is drawing on her knowledge to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19, finding ways to reduce transmission in community areas and workplaces.

Antoine Sands

Engineering Project Manager - ASME

Engineering Project Managers enable Mechanical Engineers, Civil Engineers, and Electrical Engineers to collaborate on solutions for strengthening natural gas and oil infrastructure. They are skilled problem-solvers with engineering knowledge who love taking things apart and putting them back together again.

Wadood Daoud

Program Manager - Microsoft

Program Managers always know how to get things done on time by being highly organized, collaborative, and leadership-oriented professionals. They are as flexible as they are productive, analyzing tasks and identifying steps and resources required to bring complicated projects to fruition.