SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids: The STEM learning game
Turn your wildest dreams into reality!
STEM learning is highly sought after; it is the skillset to realize one’s dreams, solve problems and have fun. SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids by Dassault Systèmes, is a free web-based STEM learning game app that puts the children’s dream into their grasp!
What is STEM learning?
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics – or STEM – is a popular acronym for four fields that share core similarities.
STEM learning is not only a field of expertise, but a series of quantifiable qualifications and proficiencies in the tools we all use in careers and everyday life. It shows no signs of slowing down for today’s demands and the challenges of tomorrow.
STEM, and the skillset it provides, is not just a piece of paper to be bragged about on your wall. It is about qualifying your child in the practical abilities that aid them in design, lateral thinking, problem-solving, and creativity.
Children are already curious about the world – STEM simply takes this curiosity and quantifies it.
Why is STEM learning important?
STEM is found in all areas of life. It provides the ability to solve problems and to create new things, because of these important life skills the demand for STEM-educated employees has skyrocketed. A Deloitte report predicts that by 2025 there will be over 3.7 million STEM manufacturing jobs in the U.S., of which half only will be filled.
STEM expertise is not only required in hard-science jobs – it is also crucial in any job today. For example, more businesses today demand computer proficiencies. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics expects that STEM capabilities related to computer occupations will grow three times faster than the other career fields.
Essentially, STEM means that kids will be well equipped for a lucrative future. Because the demand for children’s abilities will be rare – so they will be in high demand.
How SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids fits in STEM learning?
At SOLIDWORKS, we have been creating 3D design solutions for professional designers and engineers for over 20 years!
With SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids, we want to create an ecosystem of apps that could empower kids to learn about design, engineering, creativity using STEM to make things in a fun, easy, and friendly environment. Those five totally free and web-based apps are: Classroom, Shape It, Style It, Mech It, and Print It.
Our goal was to create tools – or edutainment games – specifically designed to turn your child’s dreams into reality – Apps for Kids is the key to unlock those dreams. So when you are hard at work, you can set your kids fun challenges or work together to create amazing things.
As kids learn, they will be able to create unbelievable things from the easy-to-understand, free video tutorials.
Kids can create super cool spiral art using mechanization, inertia, and interacting systems. Then they can begin to imagine their art in 3D.
In Shape It they can easily mold their ideas into a 3D model on their screen. In no time, kids discover the anatomy of what they have dreamed and proceed to 3D. It’s even possible to print it at home, either in 2D or in 3D. With this it is now possible to create your own homemade toys that are unique and will be cherished more than any store-bought items. While kids begin to play with their newly created toy they can imagine what their next creation will be. There will be no stopping them!
SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids and STEM learning sets kids up for the future, and prepares them for the qualifications, certifications and life skills that will help them succeed in whatever they choose to do in life.
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