Oladapo Adeleke Banwo

Patrice Juliet Pinder

The global challenges associated with the rising unemployment rates and uncertainty affect both developed and developing nations. In combating this problem, entrepreneurship education emerges as a solution, providing diverse pathways for students to develop competencies. Recognizing this, universities and colleges have integrated entrepreneurship courses into their curricula, aiming to impact foundational knowledge. In this paper, we looked at and explain entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, and side hustles and how these might be appealing to today’s students. Also, there is some discussion on the near future advantage of intertwining entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship (concepts) with a discipline like Science or STEM to create Sci-entrepreneurships or science based entrepreneurship activities.

Patrice Juliet Pinder

In 2008, I, Dr. Patrice Juliet Pinder, coined the term “Black Girl Turn” in science to focus on the challenges and opportunities of Black females in the USA. Today, the focus has been extended to Black groups and other people of color in other parts of the world including the Caribbean region; and so, the point of this brief paper was to explore ways in which STEM and STEM activities could be applicable and made interesting for students of color especially younger students. In June of 2021, I was invited to speak to a group of STEM educators a part of the Bahamas’ Association of Science Educators’ (BASE) meeting and during that meeting I offered strategies to get Bahamian students into STEM. The strategies discussed during that meeting have been outlined here for the benefit of students and teachers in the Bahamas, wider Caribbean and beyond.