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PTAA Mission: Engage and inspire students, with a particular focus on underserved and underrepresented students, through an inquiry-driven STEM curriculum rooted in creativity, collaboration, and innovation. PTAA Graduates will be equipped with the skills and abilities to earn advanced degrees, obtain rewarding positions in STEM careers, and be global change-makers. Importance of Fine Arts at a STEM school PTAA offers Music and Visual Art courses which encouraging the creativity needed in today's age of innovation and design. The arts can be used to directly engage students as well as to enrich STEM learning and abilities. "Students comprehend abstract science and math concepts such as fractions and geometric shapes better by making art" (Building STEAM: Blending the Arts With STEM Subjects, Education Week, published December 7, 2011). The arts may also have the potential to promote creativity and new ways of thinking which could help boost STEM innovation and create a more creative American workforce.