Annie Burnett with the “The Amazing Adventures of the Princesses from Planet STEM”
Annie Burnett (daughter of Rotary Club of Indianapolis President, Matt Burnett) with the book The Amazing Adventures of the Princesses from Planet STEM, written by our speaker for the July 29, 2014 program, Dr. Erin Albert.
Dr. Erin Albert is an entrepreneur, writer, pharmacist, attorney, and associate professor. She is the founder of two companies (Pharm, LLC and Yuspie, LLC), and currently is the Director of Continuing Education & Preceptor Development, and Director of the Ribordy Center for Community Practice Pharmacy at Butler University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
Erin has developed and written several books on pharmacy practice, entrepreneurship, law, regional community development for central Indiana, and most recently, a children’s book on STEM. After launching a successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign in the fall of 2013, Dr. Albert donated 440 copies of her new STEM children’s book, The Amazing Adventures of the Princesses from Planet STEM to the Indiana State Public Library System. Her books have been featured in The Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, Forbes, and The New York Times. She blogs at her website, erinalbert.com.
A native Hoosier, she attended Butler University, Concordia University Wisconsin for her MBA, Shenandoah University for her doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) degree, and the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law for her JD.
The title of her presentation for the July 29 program: Why We Should All Be STEAMED About Education in Indiana.
STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education is in the media everywhere. It has been estimated Indiana alone will have 123,000 STEM jobs available in 2018. However, is the emphasis on STEM education enough to set Indiana apart from the rest of the global workforce? Sixty five percent of grade school children today may have jobs that don’t even yet exist. In this presentation, Dr. Albert will argue and advocate not only for STEM education in Indiana, but STEAMED education, which integrates the arts, entrepreneurship and design thinking into the STEM curriculum, which will better prepare the future Indiana workforce.
