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            My proposal argument consists of discussing the value of both consumer and engineering education and education of the industry of medicine and engineering for both future engineers, educators, and doctors so that the divide between the makers of the machinery in medicine and the users of the said machinery. The audience, of course would be educators, but it would be pushing such that the doctors and engineers would be further integrated in early and higher education so that the aspiring in both industries of later generations would be greater versed in use-inspired research that transcends its uses into the operating room and beyond. This push would decrease resources necessary to teach medical professionals how to use given machinery, as well as allow engineers and scientists to greater focus on the needs of the current patient population. This is also as part of a push to add more representation and advocacy for the continued growth of STEM careers, which, although has been advertised for many years, has in my opinion failed its purpose by lacking a method of integration that permeates to science, tech, engineering, and math, and usage in fields of medicine, a field that is critical to gaining the “upper hand” in innovation that the United States has been looking for many years. The audience reaches out to doctors, engineers, and educators as a base, but also goes out to parents and those who are already in the field who understand the issue of the void between two critical fields of work. By appealing to the higher-ups in education – at the state and national level – to understand that curriculums all over the country lack these sorts of values, there should be some breakthrough or continued advocacy to improve the push for STEM careers and education. The belief is that including the fundamentals of medicine and engineering as required into the curriculum of all students all over the nation, whether or not they will matriculate into a STEM related career, is absolutely beneficial to the community as a whole as those who will not only use these technologies, but as well have the technologies used on them. The platform I would use for this pitch would probably be YouTube – and as wide of a community as that is, the true audience lies all the way down to the consumer – the viewers of YouTube are as part of the community that has used and benefited from the technology we have today, but may also attest to a lack of knowledge before both the market and upon reaching the operating table. As for the video itself, it will be an appeal towards the necessity of this addition to curriculum, and a set of interviews with college students of all majors whose opinions attest to the technology we have today and the sort of education that brought them to understand (or not) what we have as a society today, and how we could possibly bring them together.