STEM Careers

3. They ensure that people are getting the right foods to make them as healthy and as strong as possible.
6. They study everything about water and the water cycle to predict a drought or prevent pollution.
7. They study everything about cells and determine defects in cells of patients.
8. They study how living things inherit traits or features from their parents through genes. Inherited traits include the color of your hair to the shape of your nose.
9. They think big! They want to understand the workings of the universe from the sun to the galaxies and everything in between.

1. They investigate disease outbreaks to figure out when, where and why an infection started. Their goals are to contain the current outbreak and prevent it from happening again.
2. They study the makeup of living things such as cell development, breathing, and digestion.
4. They study microorganisms such as bacteria or viruses to promote health. They may develop methods to preserve food longer or identify the cause of a disease.
5. They use mathematics to solve problems in business, science, physics, or engineering. They may solve codes for the military or create models for predicting weather patterns.
10. It's more than just money! They study how a community's resources are shared including how businesses work.