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- Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 15
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Sarah Hug, Colorado Evaluation and Research Consulting; Suzanne Eyerman, Fairhaven Research and Evaluation; Trina L. Fletcher, Florida International University; Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University; Michael A. Soltys, University of Colorado, Boulder
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mechanical and electrical engineering. Projects are taken home to facilitate participants sharing their learning with their families. The Mid-Atlantic Workshops High school girls The Ambassador has created and implemented a series of workshops that are held at a local library. Participants are introduced to electrical and
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- Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 17
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Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Towson University; Ming Tomayko, Towson University
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particularly useful prompting question was: “Why?”Research QuestionsWe investigated three research questions for this study: 1. How do kindergartners engaged in an engineering design challenge analyze (i.e., diagnose and/or explain) their design failure experiences? 2. Do kindergartners whose designs fail choose to persist by trying again? 3. How do kindergartners whose designs fail apply testing results and failure analysis when creating their next design attempt?ContextParticipants and SchoolsWe recruited participants from five kindergarten classrooms across three schools within a schoolsystem in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Adamsville Elementary is a Title I schoolin an urban area with about 500 students. Blakely