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SLINGSHOT focuses on noted Segway inventor Dean Kamen and his 15-year quest to solve the world's water crisis.

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A World Without Water
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#Latinas only hold 2% of #STEM jobs. Meet the women trying to change that: https://t.co/C91pjmpvGS

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A Senate bill passed Friday encouraging Missouri high school students to take computer science classes and an online class about STEM careers, and two local groups hope to keep spreading STEM awareness for Missouri students. https://t.co/dHVSJDRUzr

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https://t.co/29UYhR3GSd "Less than 1 percent of the world’s water supply is readily available for human use. Yet we use it in wildly inefficient ways: We lose it to leaky pipes. We dump waste in it. We try to grow some of our most water-intensive crops in the desert. Really."

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"A study conducted by #Microsoft found that 72% of the girls polled said it was important for them to have jobs that directly helped the world, but only 37% thought of #STEMCareers as being creative or making the world better."
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Instead of speaking about herself, Miss Michigan said she was "from the state with 84% of the US fresh water but none for its residents to drink". https://t.co/l3UiVdgiYf

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"'We can give them an authentic problem, that has an engineering solution,' said Dr. Gess. 'We can say to them; remember all those things we learned, now apply them out here.'" https://t.co/ZiJjQF1Hzw

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"Lithium can be extracted from water found in mines. However, demand for water has grown so much that the Chilean government is trying to limit its usage. No one really knows how much water there is in the Salar de Atcama area." https://t.co/5RmsS68kXE

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“Our country badly needs more people studying STEM,” Newmark said. “If our country aspires to be about fairness and opportunity, we need to help our teachers help our students to get into well-paying careers.” https://t.co/OT6oODUHTC

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"Having evaporated from lakes and rivers and oceans and returned as snow and rain, the #water we consume has been through innumerable uses. #Dinosaurs drank it. The Caesars did, too." #watercrisis https://t.co/QrZvbz78KH

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The #GirlScouts add #badges centered aroune #space #astronomy and #STEM to promote girls' interest in the sciences https://t.co/IGq45mgNp3

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"The MDHHS director has the serious responsibility of watching out for the health of all Michiganders, and the reality is that he helped cover up a crisis and lied to an entire poisoned city." https://t.co/mlzOig5f0C #Flint
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What's behind #Tesla's latest #STEM #Education Donation? https://t.co/DBi3WqrCnX

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"'This is not the first time that the water supply has stopped before my turn has come. Again today, I will have to beg my neighbor for a bucket of water,' Bai told DW." https://t.co/COHqZX7Q66

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#STEMEducation has a #MathAnxiety Problem https://t.co/X3BVpO2OBj

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Is a Circular Economy the Solution to the World's Water Crisis?
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“Over the next decade, national data indicate the economy will need nearly a million more STEM professionals than the United States will produce at the current rate.” https://t.co/4zEUU32WYc

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Iraq bans farming summer crops as water crisis grows dire https://t.co/WgQVdfCYyz

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How We Need to Rewire #STEMEducation https://t.co/mBkTsp6VTH