{"id":44498,"date":"2022-09-05T07:20:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T11:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=44498"},"modified":"2022-09-05T07:22:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T11:22:56","slug":"stem-ulating-freeman-broadwell-energizes-a-new-class-of-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/stem-ulating-freeman-broadwell-energizes-a-new-class-of-students\/","title":{"rendered":"STEMulating: Freeman Broadwell energizes a new class of students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_44499\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" data-attachment-id=\"44499\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/stem-ulating-freeman-broadwell-energizes-a-new-class-of-students\/272241267_271166481777923_6290240558839515012_n\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/08\/272241267_271166481777923_6290240558839515012_n-e1753283042197.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,961\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"272241267_271166481777923_6290240558839515012_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/08\/272241267_271166481777923_6290240558839515012_n-1024x769.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-44499 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/08\/272241267_271166481777923_6290240558839515012_n-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"Freeman Broadwell, far right, a 2016 UTC graduate, started a STEM program for students from middle school to university-level in Albania. He is shown here with some of the STEM students.\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\"\/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freeman Broadwell, right, a 2016 UTC graduate with a mechanical engineering degree, has started a STEM program for students from middle school to university-level in Albania. Photo courtesy of Freeman Broadwell.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pursuing a career in technology can be an arduous climb for young people in Albania.<\/p>\n<p>The country on the western coast of the Adriatric Sea in Europe doesn\u2019t offer a ready path for students to prepare for jobs in the fields of science, technology, engineering or mathematics\u2014also known as STEM\u2014but Freeman Broadwell is working to change that.<\/p>\n<p>Broadwell graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2016 with a mechanical engineering degree focused on machine design.\u00a0Today, he and his wife, Natalie, live in Albania, where he\u2019s starting a STEM program for students from middle school to university-level.<\/p>\n<p>Most Albanian schools that teach STEM subjects are in the capital, Kosovo\u2014where 1.5 million of the country\u2019s 3 million people live and those outside the city have limited access, Broadwell said.<\/p>\n<p>He said his work is part of a two-pronged approach to overcoming obstacles to broader STEM education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne is providing them with the necessary skills, courses and equipment, but two is increasing enthusiasm and awareness for the general areas that are presented by STEM,\u201d Broadwell\u00a0said. \u201cIf you went out and you ask kids, \u2018Could you name three STEM careers?\u2019 They might not be able to do that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we are cultivating creativity and innovation in the youth while providing them with the technical skills and educational connections necessary to pursue careers in STEM fields.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Living and working<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Broadwell and his wife live in Kor\u00e7\u00eb, a city of about 76,000 that he said has unique status in Albania. It\u2019s the only one in the entire country with running water and electricity 24\/7.<\/p>\n<p>A month after they met in 2018, Natalie moved to Albania to work with a church group. A year and a half later\u2014two months after they got married\u2014 he joined her in January 2020, helping her with church work while working as a freelance design engineer.<\/p>\n<p>Through his design work, he ran headlong into the lack of anyone proficient in STEM in Kor\u00e7\u00eb.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a mechanical engineer who has a passion for engineering, innovation and sciences, I saw an opportunity to help,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Working with a local library for classroom space, the University for Business and Technology (UBT) in Kor\u00e7\u00eb\u00a0as an education partner and getting advice from several Albanian professors who teach engineering, Broadwell is gearing up the STEM program. He\u2019s in the process of raising money to buy equipment such as desktop computers, 3D printers and software. Classes are scheduled to begin in November, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no program like this in the area, and no lab like this in the nation,\u201d Broadwell said.<\/p>\n<p>Aleksia Xega is a program coordinator at UBT and Broadwell\u2019s co-founder of the STEM program. She said the lack of STEM education and skills force many young Albanians to leave the country to find work. .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey go abroad. They never stay here,\u201d Xega said. \u201cSo that\u2019s something we\u2019re trying to do here by building this STEM lab. We\u2019re trying to actually hold our students here instead of letting them go abroad and never come back.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Beginnings of success<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Although the program is in its infancy, a local high school signed up back in February as the first client for the program, bringing 20 to 30 students in 10th and 11th grades, Broadwell said.<\/p>\n<p>The program\u2019s first focus will be robotics, a starting line for many STEM careers because robots are cool and most people recognize them, he said. He gained substantial know-how in robotics as a member of the UTC Chem-E-Car Team that competed in the national championship competition in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobots are fun and a great way to see and physically experience programming,\u201d Broadwell explained. \u201cRobotics is a great way to teach analytical and logical thought processes. An analytical thought process is essential in all STEM fields.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnical skills and analytical mindsets, along with experience with robotics, will set these students above the rest when they seek to find work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This is an updated version of a story that first appeared in the spring 2022 issue of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/utchattanooga\/docs\/utcmagazine-spring22\"><em>The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Magazine<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_44504\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" data-attachment-id=\"44504\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/stem-ulating-freeman-broadwell-energizes-a-new-class-of-students\/272230346_271166485111256_278594195014788809_n\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/08\/272230346_271166485111256_278594195014788809_n-e1753282987105.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,961\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"272230346_271166485111256_278594195014788809_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/08\/272230346_271166485111256_278594195014788809_n-1024x769.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-44504 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/08\/272230346_271166485111256_278594195014788809_n-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\"\/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cSo we are cultivating creativity and innovation in the youth,&#8221; Freeman Broadwell said, &#8220;while providing them with the technical skills and educational connections necessary to pursue careers in STEM fields.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the pages of University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Magazine: Historically, Albania hasn\u2019t offered much preparation for STEM careers. 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