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Episode 5.19 Hello and Welcome to another potentially useful episode of the TCAPSLoop Podcast!! Like Tom Holland, her Career Exploration is Uncharted, It’s Danelle Brostrom joining me on the pod along with the STEM Career Sherpa of Northwest Michigan, It’s Shelly VanderMuelen.         TCAPSLoop Moment of Zen: “If You Aim At Nothing, You Hit Nothing.” ― Zig Ziglar   The Agenda: What does the STEM Career Sherpa do?   Support counselors and educators in career exploration-lessons, resources, events EDP’s and school improvement legislation Promote and help teach/implement EiE, PSTL, Coding, etc. How have career outlooks changed since WE joined the workforce? Awareness of what was ahead- Technology Changes Number of jobs, length of stay at a job What can teachers (and parents really) do to encourage kids to think about careers? Replace, “what do you want to do when you grow up?” with, "What problems do you want to solve? what are you curious about? what interests you? what are you