[BlindMath] [nfbcs] Science division reach its 2017 STEM scholarship goal

[Mike Gorse]

I'm glad that the scholarship was funded. If blind students are interested 
in a STEM field and have the aptitude, then they should be able to study 
it and shouldn't be discouraged. At the same time, if a student has no 
interest in anything STEM-related but feels passionate about, say, helping 
disadvantaged children, then education or social work might be what s/he 
should study. While the prevalence of jobs and expected salaries are 
things that students should consider, their abilities and interests are 
also factors--if a student studies a field that s/he isn't well suited to, 
the s/he may have trouble finding work anyhow.

A friend (who isn't blind) just posted this, while complaining that he was 
encouraged to study biomedical engineering when there are virtually no 
jobs in the field, according to him:

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/stem-still-no-shortage-c6f6eed505c1

Someone else posted a link to this paper in response, which argues that 
STEM is to heterogeneous to say that there is or isn't a shortage.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2015/article/stem-crisis-or-stem-surplus-yes-and-yes.htm