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School’s Over...Now What?

SONWClassic: From Chicago To Stem w/Justin Shaifer

School’s Over...Now What?

Shawn Anthony

Education

5670 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

On this episode Shawn interviews Justin Shaifer aka as Mr. Fascinate. Justin is the Executive Director of Fascinate Inc. an organization created to excite underrepresented students about STEM he develops culturally responsive STEM curriculum for institutions in New York City. He is known for his work on the Magic Cool Bus Project. Past partners of his organization include Microsoft, MIT Media Lab, and the Children’s Aid Society. He is studying these programs effect as a PhD student at Columbia University.

They will discuss the following:
  • Discovering your passion
  • Getting kids excited about STEM
  • Hood Science & the Magic Cool Bus Project
To learn more about Justin Shaifer please visit www.justinshaifer.com or follow him on all platforms @mr.fascinate



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Transcript

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0:00.0

So this is one event I did at this museum.

0:03.3

And afterwards, this little eight-year-old boy comes up to me, he's like, he's like,

0:06.9

yo, what do you do, man?

0:07.8

What do you do?

0:08.6

And so I kept this simple for him.

0:09.8

I'm like, hey, man, I'm a scientist.

0:11.5

He was like, really?

0:13.3

I want to be a scientist like, you and I grow up.

0:15.3

You're my uncle, man. got me up and you know we are we embracing all that and I'm like dang like I never had this growing up

0:23.4

like I never had this the STEM role model you know like someone who's a cool person so happened to be

0:29.5

in a STEM career right so it never seemed like something that was cool to me as a kid and so I realized

0:35.2

that there's so much potential for that. Lo and behold, a year later,

0:38.8

quit my job, moved to New York City, and I was like, look, I'm about to make STEM cool for kids.

0:43.8

I have no idea how I want to financially sustain this. I'm going to make it happen. So that was a

0:50.5

year and some change ago, and here I am now.

1:06.5

So the question is this. How do thought leaders, school dropouts, former and current students find out what's next after they do or don't cross that stage.

1:13.8

If you want to know the secrets to start in the career of business of your dreams,

1:18.7

getting paid whatever you desire, and discovering what you do the best with the least amount of effort,

1:20.7

then this is the right podcast for you.

1:24.3

I'm Sean Anthony, and this is School's Over.

1:25.5

Now What?

1:26.2

The podcast.

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