CTE, STEM, and The Future of Work with Guest, Larisa Schelkin

Larisa K. Schelkin is CEO & Founder, Global STEM Education Center, Inc. 501(c) (3) nonprofit and President, Global STEM Education Consulting, LLC. Larisa is the author of the Global STEM Classroom® - globally connected teaching and learning model. She develops and runs collaborative global STEM programs with schools in Massachusetts and around the world. Larisa is the recipient of MAVA Friend of Career & Technical Education Award (2016) and serves on the Steering Committee of MAVA Connecting for Success Annual Conference. She is a frequent speaker at career technical education conferences on the topics of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, BIG Data, the Future of Work and CTE education. Her Global STEM program was highlighted by ACTE, CTE, Longview Foundation, Asia Society in the white paper on workforce development. She led PD, coaching and implementation of the Global STEM CTE program for 4 years at a career technical high school (Electrical/Plumbing/Auto-Collision/Culinary) and for 10 years at regional public high/middle schools. She managed Global STEM Classroom programs in collaboration with educators in France, UK, Russia, the Netherlands, Norway, Ukraine, Mexico and India. Her programs were recognized and presented at MA STEM Summit, MAVA, ACTE, ISTE, ASCD, METAA, MassCUE, NSTA, CoSN. Larisa held executive positions in academia and STEM global corporations (WPI, WIT, Tufts University; TYCO Electronics Global Corporation).  Larisa is a NASA GLOBE Certified educator (since 2014). She is a Fellow for Education Policy, Rennie Center for Educational Research and Policy & Institute for Education Leadership (IEL), Washington, DC (Class 2015); Larisa studied Global Education at Harvard University Graduate School of Education ”Think Tank” (2015-2019); Larisa Schelkin holds BS/MS in Petroleum Engineering & MS in Computer Science. Learn more about the Global STEM Education Center on page 2 of this white paper: Preparing a Globally competent workforce through a high-quality career technical education: https://asiasociety.org/sites/default/files/preparing-a-globally-competent-workforce-june-2016.pdf