Creating On-Ramps for Middle and High School Students Towards Rewarding Careers in Engineering
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2016-05-03
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Ohio State University. Office of Outreach and Engagement
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The "Creating On-Ramps" engineering outreach project is designed to increase the interest of underrepresented youth in engineering by a) providing teachers pre-engineering professional development, and b) disseminating pre-engineering design challenge materials to K-12 educators and volunteers in Ohio and throughout the U.S. The project aims to help classroom teachers become effective STEM career ambassadors who introduce middle and high school students to the engineering design process, a core skillset of the engineering profession.
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IMPACT. 1: K-12 Students: Approximately 150 students from KIPP Academy after-school program will be exposed to the engineering design process over a 6-week period. -- 2. Classroom Teachers and Engineering Students: Seven teachers and 18 engineering students will participate in summer research and the subsequent creation and delivery of preengineering design challenges. -- 3. Informal Engineering Education: Eighteen classroom-tested pre-engineering design challenges will be developed and hosted on a website for access by K-12 educators and volunteers.
OSU PARTNERS: College of Engineering; Department of Teaching and Learning, College of Education and Human Ecology; Department of Educational Studies, College of Education and Human Ecology; Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity; Ohio Resource Center, College of Education and Human Ecology
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: KIPP Columbus Middle School; The Boys & Girls Club of Columbus; The Metro School; Reynoldsburg City Schools; Worthington City Schools
PRIMARY CONTACT: Howard Greene (greene.8@osu.edu)
OSU PARTNERS: College of Engineering; Department of Teaching and Learning, College of Education and Human Ecology; Department of Educational Studies, College of Education and Human Ecology; Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity; Ohio Resource Center, College of Education and Human Ecology
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: KIPP Columbus Middle School; The Boys & Girls Club of Columbus; The Metro School; Reynoldsburg City Schools; Worthington City Schools
PRIMARY CONTACT: Howard Greene (greene.8@osu.edu)
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Engaged Scholars, v. 4 (2016).