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Gentlemen, these are nerds. They are back.They're back. Don't panic
各位紳士，這些人是些書呆子?，F在他們回來了。他們又回來了，不要恐慌。
And they're back who really reach the wallfor that one. That's the clip from the 1980s movie 'Revenge of the nerds II'.And today's job market is all about the nerds. Growing up, your parents mayhave wanted you to be a doctor, a lawyer, a banker, maybe airline pilot. Thosewere the rock stars, right? But the rock stars of today: science, technology,engineering and math. Software engineer ranks as the best job of 2012. This is,according to Careercast, paying around $90,000 a year. Petroleum engineers even average 6figures, a 114,000-dollars a year. Call them nerds, but it's cool to have acareer that pays. They don't come any cooler than Ainiss Ramirez, Scientist andformer professor of mechanical engineering at Yale University.Welcome to the program. Heheh.. Thank you for having me. Ainiss, you callyourself a "science's evangelist". The point here is engaging kids, fromkindergarten to college, in STEM field. How do we do that?
現在，這些書呆子回來了，他們真的到達了另一種人的目標。這是一個二十世紀八十年代的一部電影《書呆子II的報復》中的一節剪輯?，F在的工作市場充斥著這樣的書呆子。伴隨著你的成長，你的父母可能希望你能成為醫生，律師，銀行家，也可能是飛行員。這些人過去是大明星，不是嗎？但是今天的大明星是：科學家，技術人才，工程師，或數學家。其中軟件工程高居2012年最好工作排行之榜首。根據美國著名就業網站（CareerCast），他們的薪水為一年9萬美元左右。石油工程師的年薪甚至高達6位數，一年11.4萬美元。我們稱他們為書呆子，但是能擁有如此的薪水卻酷斃了。最酷的莫過于，科學家及耶魯大學機械工程系前教授AinissRamirez。歡迎您參加我們的節目。謝謝您的邀請。Ainiss, 您稱自己為“科學福音傳道士”。關鍵在于從小就讓孩子們參與STEM領域。我們怎么才能做到這一點呢？
Well, we've gotta get them excited aboutthe science. As you know, some science classes, math classes just don't capturechildren's imaginations. So, we have to figure out how to do that. So, insteadof telling children to be a software engineer, ask them ' Hey, would you liketo be the next Zukberger' You have to put them in contexts and get them excitedabout these careers. That's what I did. The 2012 Teacher of The Year was sointeresting. She gets her kids to design an app in first, or second grade.Write apps, I mean, this is you gotta do it right away, doing something thatthey understand. But when we, you know, talk about the top jobs in this fields,engineering, in particular, still boys' club. Look at these 88,000 degrees werehanded out in 2010, just 15,000 of those went to women. Um, Why aren't womengetting more excited about STEM: science, technology, engineering and Math. Isthat, Is that also happening in the schools? Uh, it's a sad fact, but it'sdefinitely true. Women are about 20% of the bachelor's degrees that are, youknow, coming out the engineering. And it's, there's no gender bias in terms ofhow people perform in math, that means girls and boys do math just equally aswell. The difference is there aren't any role models, also there's a stigma,you know, all girls often hear: you can't do math. We had a Barbie doll onetime said math is hard. So, there's socialization that causes girls to thinkthat, to cause girls to think that they can't do math and then they loseconfidence. But that's the key we need to have a cool role model.
我們要使他們對科學感到興奮。正如您知道的，一些科學課程，比如數學課，無法激發孩子們的想象力。因此，我們必須想想該做些什么。因此，與其告訴孩子們要成為軟件工程師，不好問他們“嗨，你想成為下一位Zukberger”嗎？你需要將孩子們置身于一個場景中，并讓他們為這些職業感到興奮。我就是這么做的。《一位老師的2012年》寫得非常有趣。這位女老師讓一年級或者二年級的孩子們設計一個應用。寫一個應用，我的意思是，這是這些孩子們馬上就能做的事情，要讓孩子們做能夠理解的事情。但是，您知道，當我們談話這一領域的高級工作時，尤其是工程師，仍然在男孩子俱樂部?？匆幌?010年我們授予的88，000個工科學歷中，只有15，000個學歷是授予女生的。為什么女孩子們沒有男孩子對STEM（科學，技術，工程和數學）感興趣？這一現象是否也發生在中小學？這是一個悲哀的現實，不過卻是千真萬確的事實。工程學本科學歷中，女生大約占20%。事實上，就數學成績而言，我們并沒有性別偏見，這意味著女生的數學能學得和男生一樣好。問題在于我們沒有角色模范，但是，我們知道，有社會偏見，幾乎每個女孩都會聽到有人對她說“你學不好數學的！”我們曾經有一個芭比玩具，說過“數學好難”。因此，是社會化環境讓女孩子們這樣想，認為自己學不好數學，于是她們失去了學數學的信心。但是，關鍵在于我們需要樹立一些超酷的模犯。
