K-12 Engineering Outreach
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2016-05-03
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Ohio State University. Office of Outreach and Engagement
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This program delivers hands-on engineering activities to classrooms, libraries, and camps, to address the need for more people in the STEM fields, particularly women and minorities. More than 250 OSU student volunteers engage kids by teaching them how to build real engineering projects, such as speakers or motors, that they can take home.
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IMPACT. 1: The K12 Engineering program has visited nearly 90 schools, bringing hands-on projects to well over 13,000 K12 students, many of whom may never have thought they could be an engineer. -- 2. OSU students have used their engineering know-how to design over 20 projects to be age-appropriate, fun, and low-cost. They get to give back to their communities and their professions. -- 3. Students have travelled abroad to deliver these projects to schools in Colombia and Guatemala.
OSU PARTNERS: College of Engineering; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: 90 different schools; Columbus Metro Libraries; Engineering Explorer Post; Young Scholars Program; Wright Scholars Program; YMCA; Math and Science Club; 4H; King Arts Complex Summer Arts Camp; Science Olympiad
PRIMARY CONTACT: Betty Lise Anderson (anderson.67@osu.edu)
OSU PARTNERS: College of Engineering; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: 90 different schools; Columbus Metro Libraries; Engineering Explorer Post; Young Scholars Program; Wright Scholars Program; YMCA; Math and Science Club; 4H; King Arts Complex Summer Arts Camp; Science Olympiad
PRIMARY CONTACT: Betty Lise Anderson (anderson.67@osu.edu)
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Engaged Scholars, v. 4 (2016).