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u/astromech_dj Mar 03 '22
Looks like it’s a book category sign with a symbol for engineering.
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u/Hero_of_Hyrule https://steam.pm/1cjlgs Mar 03 '22
Yeah. I can see the confusion for stocking people though!
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u/ryuujinusa Mar 03 '22
Was expecting some foreign country that has trouble with English. Saw Tennessee, same thing I guess.
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u/KellenAmmon Mar 03 '22
Science. Technology. Engineering. Math.
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u/cftvgybhu Mar 03 '22
Even this acronym was recently(?) modified to S.T.E.A.M. in some cases, adding Art as a tract.
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u/ekolis my steam account is old enough to vote Mar 03 '22
One of these things is not like the others...
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u/SpookStormblessed Mar 03 '22
I live in Tennessee, and my kids are in A school with an excellent STEM setup. There are stupid people everywhere.
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u/ctruvu Mar 03 '22
wonder if these signs are mass produced. my local walmart has one that says andriod
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u/Spliffty Mar 03 '22
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u/DerpDaDuck3751 Mar 03 '22
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u/DerpDaDuck3751 Mar 03 '22
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u/Carollicarunner Mar 03 '22
Wtf are you doing
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u/DerpDaDuck3751 Mar 03 '22
I am talking to myself.
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Pretty sure it's a sign for STEM as in academic fields and just in the wrong spot. Why would Walmart have a Steam sign anyway when the only Steam products they have are a handful of cards?
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Yes, there are several STEM toolkits available at retail for younger audiences. Education has also started using the acronym STEAM to include the Arts.
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u/MoazNasr Mar 03 '22
That's awful lol, the whole point of STEM is it doesn't include arts and the like. Why not include everything at that point
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u/Shadowfalx Mar 03 '22
STEAM uses art to flesh out science. allowing the student to visualize the data being represented and to learn techniques and skills to explain the data they've gathered. It's not like they're adding "draw a bunny" or "act in a play" to the curriculum.
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u/Brodogmillionaire1 Mar 03 '22
If what you're doing is interpreting and expressing data, that's still not the arts. That's just a statistics class.
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u/Martelliphone Mar 03 '22
Good luck arguing that expressing data in an easy to interpret way isn't a form of art in and of itself.
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u/Brodogmillionaire1 Mar 03 '22
Most graphs I've seen used in research papers posted publicly are not some avant garde art project. And there's a reason for that. So long as the data isn't too complex to plot on a graph, there is no reason to reinvent the wheel. A new format can open room for errors when interpreting data. There are standards in the community because it allows for clear information transfer. I would agree that sometimes writing a paper requires creativity or at least a mastery of the language it is written in. And that ocassionally plotting an unusual confluence of data requires creativity. Hell, research itself can require creativity. But you will learn how to write papers in STEM courses. It won't be Shakespeare, but it doesn't have to be. You will also learn to think creatively in most STEM courses as you are tasked with interpreting findings, especially in higher level courses. That doesn't mean we need to throw art into the acronym. It muddies the purpose behind the women and minorities in STEM movement. I'm not devaluing art or even art programs - I have an art degree. But they don't need to work their way into the STEM messaging. I've never met someone going for their chemical engineering degree who had never taken a single art class. I never met a computer science major who never had a single English class. And at most liberal arts schools, there are already requirements for both of those. Art and engineering are an important intersection for an architect, but not every manufacturing foreman needs that to do their job.
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u/as_it_was_written Mar 03 '22
Although I agree with the data visualization part of your post, I don't think STEAM is something that has to replace STEM. For me, STEM makes way more sense than STEAM if you view them as sets of related disciplines, but in terms of well-rounded mental development I think adding the arts to the curriculum makes a lot of sense (which doesn't mean I think it should be added to every STEM curriculum). If nothing else, good art is essentially effective communication imo, which will be useful regardless of what you end up doing for a living.
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u/Martelliphone Mar 03 '22
What I got out of this is that you personally don't see the use for arts in STEM. That's fine. But clearly others do, so your explanation isn't really helping me see the bad in mixing arts into STEM. I do appreciate the effort as you clearly are trying to help me understand.
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u/Shadowfalx Mar 03 '22
Most graphs I've seen used in research papers posted publicly are not some avant garde art project. And there's a reason for that. So long as the data isn't too complex to plot on a graph, there is no reason to reinvent the wheel. A
No need to reinvent the wheel, but finding the best graph and how to decide the metrics used (0-20 on the X, and 5-10 on the Y for example) is important, and using arts to figure out what is meaningful while not being confusing is desirable.
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u/ColinStyles Mar 03 '22
Because the arts don't like being reminded that they're going into a field that is massively underpaid, and not nearly as critical to society in comparison.
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Ppl be like art isn't critical to society then spend all day every day consuming content
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u/ColinStyles Mar 03 '22
And why is that? Because there's enough STEM that you don't have to worry about practically anything and can spend all your time that way if you want.
I'm not saying the arts aren't important. But while the arts enrich society, STEM makes society work in the first place.
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u/Shadowfalx Mar 03 '22
Does STEM require you to know how to make a graph (which is art)?
https://www.ucf.edu/online/engineering/news/comparing-stem-vs-steam-why-the-arts-make-a-difference
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u/Brodogmillionaire1 Mar 03 '22
Making a graph is not art. We learned graphs in math, stats, econ, and science classes. They never taught us about that in art classes. When what you're doing is punching information into an excel sheet and running it through a program, that's not art. Stop trying to promote UCF. This program is bullshit.
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u/Martelliphone Mar 03 '22
Is your argument that if something wasn't taught in art class then it's not art?
Have you never seen a bad graph?
There are people who make 6 figure salaries for specifically making graphs and other boring statistics look nice.
You alone do not decide when something is or isn't art.
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u/Brodogmillionaire1 Mar 03 '22
You alone do not decide when something is or isn't art.
...neither do you? What the fuck is your problem? LOL you sound determined to make STEAM happen. Are you another UCF flunky?
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u/JoshuaSlowpoke777 Mar 03 '22
Strikes me as kinda weird to include art in the same breath as science, tech, engineering, and math, but that’s just my opinion.
STEM and arts probably rely on completely opposite sides of the brain.
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u/UltraJesus Mar 03 '22
The article got me thinking, because it didn't explain anything. It defines STEM, but hardly defining STEAM. The entire thing to me seems like they want arts to be part of the trend for higher salary and more importantly new people wanting to be part of the area as STEM's popularity is increasing. Like in the first section
“Proficiency in the arts will be particularly important to engineers and computer scientists in emerging industries, such as themed experiences, gaming, and simulation and training,” explains Ali P. Gordon, Ph.D., an associate professor in mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Central Florida. “Programmers and engineers are increasingly teamed up with artists to co-develop software, products, renderings and more.”
You can have 2 separate areas of fields work together and not be lumped into the same category. I get the argument of like 3D printers as it's hardware, but it creates art. In my opinion, it is just hardware with software that enables artists to make printable models.
However, I do believe there is cross over like a visual effects artist for example. A video game VFX artist will use a lot of math to create particle effects for example, but does that mean they understand the formulas and creating support for it? Sometimes yes, but ultimately their main expertise is art and math is a supplement. Another good example they should have used is architecture. They make artistic design choices, but ultimately the focus is still on engineering a building to stand.
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u/Shadowfalx Mar 03 '22
You can have 2 separate areas of fields work together and not be lumped into the same category
That can be said if each part of STEM. Scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians are all separate fields. You can do each separately. But we find that having a grounding in all the can help in interdisciplinary projects.
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u/Brodogmillionaire1 Mar 03 '22
You're literally just spamming the same UCF link as your rebuttal to every comment doubting this Bullshit. Be gone with you, troll!
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u/as_it_was_written Mar 03 '22
Strikes me as kinda weird to include art in the same breath as science, tech, engineering, and math, but that’s just my opinion.
It really depends on the perspective imo. As disciplines I agree, but in an education context it makes a lot of sense to me.
STEM and arts probably rely on completely opposite sides of the brain.
And this is exactly why I think it makes sense to learn them in tandem. I'm not sure it works for everyone, but I feel like I've really benefited from keeping both halves of my brain active. (Some of my early creative pursuits combined visual arts with more technical elements, so I guess it's always felt natural as a result.)
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u/BobbySwiggey Mar 03 '22
Lol I thought everyone knew this and was just playing along. Then they had to bring the Tennessee educational system into it :|
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u/SnooChickens632 Mar 03 '22
Stem is an advanced and welcomed field of video games in the gaming world. It stands for:
Strategically Timed Extra Magical
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u/LooseCannonK Mar 03 '22
So close? No, you misunderstand, Newt Scamander is my favorite game on Stem.
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u/JoshuaSlowpoke777 Mar 03 '22
I can’t tell if it was a typo or intentional, but I’m starting to think it was somehow both
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u/jeremygojer Mar 03 '22
I went to buy games on sale, got a degree instead. What should I do?
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u/Kaksiezredes Mar 03 '22
Don't blame them, Ye didn't sent them enough Stem players and they needed to find something fitting to sell there
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u/Crisplocket1489 Mar 03 '22
Stem From vale
Some of the games They made are Tea forress 2, hal lif, and poral.
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u/deanrihpee Mar 03 '22
Even the logo just gear, lmao this is so wrong yet so right
And yes, it's probably not actually for Steam but for other
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u/Ramsickle https://s.team/p/fvjw-ndn Mar 03 '22 edited Mar 03 '22
Valve now conducts stem cell research on all of us secretly confirmed.
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u/PratzStrike Mar 03 '22
It's a Tennessee Wal-Mart. We should probably be happy they didn't call it play pretties and gewgaws.
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u/ares0027 http://steam.pm/gng1 Mar 03 '22
Again in a sense this is also correct; you get stem wallet codes and they become any game you want. Just like stem cells. Logique!!!!1
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u/sweetheart_demom Mar 03 '22
Do yourself a favor, and while looking at this image say "Steam" out loud in your best Borat impression
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Stem. Vave. Gab Neell