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again STEM-fetishizing is used as cover for marketing weapons and militarism to children. Weapons contractors like Lockheed—who’s 227kg laser-guided bomb killed 40 Yemeni children in August—teams up with Discovery to promote their wares. Note: the winner gets a “drone”.
Weapons makers have all but taken over nonpublic funding for STEM education in the UK. For millions of students there, and increasingly in the US, their primary entry point into math and science is thinly-veiled war porn. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
Weapons contractors are conditioning children to see the design and creation of exploding shrapnel launched on far off peoples as sanitized and normal all under the holy, unchallenged dogma of “STEM” education
“One arms manufacturer developed a missile simulator for children to play with. Another provided classroom workshops which encouraged youngsters to think how camouflage could provide ‘advantages on the battlefield”.
In Georgia, Lockheed Martin just skipped the middle man and sponsored their own branded STEM-focused elementary school called... Lockheed Elementary School in 2013. Their mascot is "the jets" and the school is located near two Lockheed corporate locations. 
In Israel, Lockheed Martin is establishing and branding a network of PREschools, ostensibly focusing on STEM. 3 year olds will learn rocket engineering or something haaretz.com/israel-news/.p…
Now the relevant question is: are Lockheed and BAE just super-concerned about “the STEM gap” or maybe, perhaps, theyre marketing to children for the same reason tobacco did: b/c it’s in their longterm marketing interests, b/c normalizing mechanized violence is good for business.
