You touch nanotechnology
every day!
every day!
Nanotechnology is enabled by very tiny materials called nanomaterials and are already inside many of the products we use every day.
Nanomaterials and their applications are still being discovered and there are endless possibilities for a new generation of STEM professionals.
What Is Nanotechnology?
Do you know what nanotechnology is?
- Nanotechnology is a field of “STEM” (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) based on the study and use of very tiny materials, called nanomaterials, many of which have only just been developed in the past 15 years.
- Nanotechnology uses practical applications of nanomaterials to find high-tech solutions to some of the “real world’s” most long-standing concerns in a wide variety of fields.
- For example, nanotechnology is forecasted to radically change the way medicine is practiced, improving medical devices and drug delivery methods enabling fully personalized diagnosis and treatment; to give rise to truly green and sustainable energy generation and storage; to ensure worldwide access to a safe, disease-free, desalinated water supply through high-volume, portable nanotech filtration systems; and to dramatically improve homeland security and military surveillance operations.
- In the near future, nanotechnology will have a direct impact on our lives, independent of our location, career, or social position.
What can you do? Simple:
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- Learn more about nanotechnology through our programs.
- Make a positive impact for the future of our country, get involved with us now!
You touch nanotech every day!
Nanotechnology is enabled by very tiny materials called nanomaterials and are already inside many of the products we use every day.
Nanomaterials and their applications are still being discovered and there are endless possibilities for a new generation of STEM professionals.
What Is Nanotechnology?
Do you know what nanotechnology is?
Nanotechnology is a field of “STEM” (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) based on the study and use of very tiny materials, called nanomaterials, many of which have only just been developed in the past 15 years.
Nanotechnology uses practical applications of nanomaterials to find high-tech solutions to some of the “real world’s” most long-standing concerns in a wide variety of fields.
- For example, nanotechnology is forecasted to radically change the way medicine is practiced, improving medical devices and drug delivery methods enabling fully personalized diagnosis and treatment; to give rise to truly green and sustainable energy generation and storage; to ensure worldwide access to a safe, disease-free, desalinated water supply through high-volume, portable nanotech filtration systems; and to dramatically improve homeland security and military surveillance operations.
- In the near future, nanotechnology will have a direct impact on our lives, independent of our location, career, or social position.
What can you do? Simple:
- Learn more about nanotechnology through our programs.
- Make a positive impact for the future of our country, get involved with us now!
Give students the opportunity to learn nanotechnology:
Nanotechnology is STEM in its fullness!
Nanotech is STEM in its fullness!
Nanotechnology combines concepts
from the entire spectrum of Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Math
80%
80% of the fastest growing occupations
depend on STEM skills.
Are you ready?
17%
STEM occupations are
growing at 17% annually!
Are you ready?
STEM jobs combine creativity and
applied engineering to solve global issues
in energy, water, health, computation, etc..
How will you change the world?
Why Learn Nanotechnology?
Students should start learning nanotechnology as early as in high school because:
- Nanotechnology is the perfect subject to illustrate the explorative and creative opportunities that STEM fields offer.
- Nanotechnology is anticipated to be:
- Foundational for the “21st century industrial/technology revolution”
- Growing rapidly to generate 5% of the U.S. GDP by 2018 and to employ over 6 million workers by 2020 (U.S. Departments of Commerce and Education)
- Contributing to a 17% growth in STEM jobs over the projected 9.5% growth for non-STEM jobs (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Learning nanotechnology will give students the necessary knowledge and skills to better understand the fundamental principles of the technologies utilized in the 21st century.
We endeavor to properly prepare students, beginning in high school, for their future professional careers and the impact they will make in the world.
How we do it? By bridging the information gap between current science curricula and the sciences underlying modern technologies, we inspire students to be the next generation of scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs of nanotechnology.
What can you do? Simple:
- Learn more about nanotechnology through our programs.
- Make a positive impact for the future of our country, get involved with us now!
College & Career Readiness
Working on something very small can lead to a BIG career
Today’s high
school students
Omni Nano’s programs
Tomorrow’s STEM
skilled workforce
Nanotechnologists Are in High Demand!
Did you know many of the new jobs require knowledge of nanotechnology?
Knowledge of nanotechnology is already critical for specialized careers, and it will continue to be in high demand into the foreseeable future. Where is knowledge of nanotechnology already an essential requirement?
- Personalized medical treatments
- Energy production and storage
- Medical diagnostic devices
- Military and national security
- Electronics/semiconductor industry
- Textiles and packaging materials
- Auto and aerospace industries
- High performance sporting goods
- Environmental monitoring, control, and remediation
- Forensic science
- Self-healing and self-repairing materials
- Waterproof coatings
With your knowledge of nanotechnology, you can make the difference in any of these areas or discover new horizons!
What can you do? Simple:
- Learn more about nanotechnology through our programs.
- Make a positive impact for the future of our country, get involved with us now!
College & Career Readiness
Working on something very small can lead to a BIG career
Today’s high
school students
Omni Nano’s programs
Tomorrow’s STEM
skilled workforce
Nanotechnologists Are in High Demand!
Did you know many of the new jobs require knowledge of nanotechnology?
Knowledge of nanotechnology is already critical for specialized careers, and it will continue to be in high demand into the foreseeable future. Where is knowledge of nanotechnology already an essential requirement?
- Personalized medical treatments
- Energy production and storage
- Medical diagnostic devices
- Military and national security
- Electronics/semiconductor industry
- Textiles and packaging materials
- Auto and aerospace industries
- High performance sporting goods
- Environmental monitoring, control, and remediation
- Forensic science
- Self-healing and self-repairing materials
- Waterproof coatings
With your knowledge of nanotechnology, you can make the difference in any of these areas or discover new horizons!
What can you do? Simple:
- Learn more about nanotechnology through our programs.
- Make a positive impact for the future of our country, get involved with us now!
Test your knowledge of nanotechnology!
Test your knowledge of nanotech!
Take our nanotechnology quizzes and test your current knowledge of this interdisciplinary STEM field.
We are confident you may learn something new!
Base Module
“Base Module”
If you regularly read science magazines, you might be familiar with many of the answers already. Good Luck!
Advanced Module
“Advanced Module”
If you did well on the previous module, challenge yourself with more advanced questions! Good Luck!
Base Module
“Base Module”
If you regularly read science magazines, you might be familiar with many of the answers already. Good Luck!
Advanced Module
“Advanced Module”
If you did well on the previous module, challenge yourself with more advanced questions! Good Luck!
“Nano” talks from TED.com
“Nanotechnology” is frequently mentioned at TED talks
The Importance of STEM
Worldwide, there is a recognized relationship between:
education in science and engineering and innovation and prosperity.
“Excellence in math and science education is directly correlated to the ability of countries to successfully compete and prosper in the global community of the 21st century”
(The ExxonMobil Foundation)
“Scholars and practitioners in scientific and technical fields are chief drivers of the nation’s prosperity”
(The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation)
“There is an innovation deficit which is about to start impacting our modern societies development”
(Judy Estrin, former Cisco CTO and author of the book “Closing the Innovation Gap”)
“Roughly 40% of students planning engineering and science majors end up switching to other subjects or failing to get any degree”
(Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It’s Just So Darn Hard), The New York Times, Christopher Drew, 11/04/2011)
“Science is more than a school subject, or the periodic table, or the properties of waves. It is an approach to the world, a critical way to understand and explore and engage with the world, and then have the capacity to change that world…”
(Former U.S. President Barack Obama)
Although nanotechnology is anticipated to be at the base of the “21st century industrial revolution,” it is not taught in high schools or colleges due primarily to a lack of properly designed courses.
“Excellence in math and science education is directly correlated to the ability of countries to successfully compete and prosper in the global community of the 21st century”
(The ExxonMobil Foundation)
“Scholars and practitioners in scientific and technical fields are chief drivers of the nation’s prosperity”
(The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation)
“There is an innovation deficit which is about to start impacting our modern societies development”
(Judy Estrin, former Cisco CTO and author of the book “Closing the Innovation Gap”)
“Roughly 40% of students planning engineering and science majors end up switching to other subjects or failing to get any degree”
(Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It’s Just So Darn Hard), The New York Times, Christopher Drew, 11/04/2011)
