Conference Session

Evaluation: Technology and Tools for K-12 Engineering Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph D. Steinmeyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. In this paperwe will discuss the coursework infrastructure we developed along these lines for threeseparate summer STEM enrichment programs: a six week program, a one week program,and a three hour workshop. We follow this with some preliminary student feedback,plans for expansion, and plans for quantitatively assessing the efficacy of the curriculumin the long term.The OEOP at MIT has run its Minority Introduction to Technology, Engineering, andScience (MITES) program for the past forty years, serving rising seniors from across thecountry coming from traditionally underserved and underrepresented backgrounds.MITES is a six-week residential program where students take a number of coursesincluding calculus, physics, life sciences, humanities

Conference Session

It's Elementary

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica E S Swenson, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Merredith D Portsmore, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

foreign country with an engineering problem. The story introduces the type of engineeringbeing explored and the problem the students will eventually solve. Students are then asked toanalyze how the protagonist uses the engineering design process to solve the problem. Thescience section introduces students to use of scientific data to inform engineering design. Finally,the engineering section of each unit teaches the students about the engineering design processand asks them to construct a model out of found materials to solve the problem posed in thebook. In the Engineering is Elementary unit “Lerato Cooks Up a Plan” [4] students are given abasic model of a solar oven made from a shoebox and aluminum foil. After undertaking ascience investigation

Conference Session

Engineering Collaboration: Faculty & Student in K-12 Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Edwards, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Kathryn Holliday-Darr, Pennsylvania State University-Erie, The Behrend College; Melanie Ford, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

working drawings for the project. This includes creating detail and assembly drawings and the parts lists necessary to coordinate the drawings. 4. Manufacture parts to specifications. 5. Create supporting material, such as lesson plans, posters, MS PowerPoint, videos, and instructions that explain the project from the engineering principles behind the project through practical applications. 6. Present in a professional manner according to the venue (open house, conference, etc.)The class met one hour a week for project update reports. In addition to the weekly meetings thestudents were required to: 1. Present a mid-semester oral presentation to the MET faculty. 2. Create posters

Conference Session

Engineering Design in Pedagogy

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kyungsuk Park, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

from the pilotstudy will be presented and compared to results from previous work focused on experts at the2011 ASEE conference. The area of focus for this paper is time allocation across essentialelements of the design process. This research may help to uncover the elusive cognitive thoughtprocesses employed by students as they practice engineering design thinking and will informcurriculum developers and teachers planning classroom strategies to improve high schoolstudents’ understanding of engineering.Keywords: Engineering Design, High School, Engineering Education, Technological LiteracyRationale“The key to educating students to thrive in a competitive global economy is introducing themearly to the engineering design skills and concepts that

Conference Session

Broadening Participation

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meagan C. Ross, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

beprepared to help students plan for these types of careers, particularly through course selection.Therefore, it is important for us to not only understand the role of counselors, but to have a bettergrasp of their KAB regarding gender and STEM, and how this may potentially influence howthey counsel and engage with students. This paper examines the results of a five point Likert scale assessment tool developed usingthe KAB framework. The survey was administered as a pre and post assessment from a two hourprofessional development workshop on STEM occupations in November of 2010. Participantsincluded 120 counselors from a large Southwest school district. Eleven out of the original 45survey items are reviewed in this paper and N=71 participant

Conference Session

Exemplary Outreach Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stanley Hunley, Michigan State University; Joshua Whitman, Michigan State University; Seungik Baek, Michigan State University; Xiaobo Tan, Michigan State University; Drew Kim, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

movement of the intermediatestrip or reader. We plan to further investigate solutions to increase the physiological 11accuracy of the project while not drastically affecting building time or technicalcomplexity.AssessmentsBased on the results of Figures 4 and 5, we would like to assess the outcomes of theproject without the influence of other presentations. In this way, we plan to implement afull start-to-finish trial of the project, and determine if there are other areas of eitherconstruction or presentation that may be improved. Also to obtain a more clearunderstanding of students’ enjoyment while completing this project, we also plan to usethe five-level

Conference Session

Gender and Minority Issues in K-12 Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Robert Garrick, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

studentmembers of WIT. The intent, from the beginning, was for this to be a student-run activity withfaculty members’ only role being that of taking care of administrative details. By having thestudents in charge of planning, they have a sense of ownership for the program. Additionally,many of the students involved were former and life-long Girl Scouts who have better ideas thanthe faculty members on how to reach girls in the middle school age group. It was decided thateach of the four engineering technology departments represented would develop a hands-onexperiment to be conducted in one of their laboratories. The program was first offered inFebruary of 2008 to a troop of 9 girls and has been offered five times since then. The studentsinvolved

Conference Session

Teacher and Counselor Professional Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Reeves, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Julia Ross, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

curriculum.This provided a unique type of feedback that most teachers had not received before. In July2009, this PD program was piloted with 12 pre-engineering/technology high school teachersusing the Engineering in Health Care module. This module was chosen because of its provensuccess and available student learning data compiled from previous years. All of the teachers who attended the PD program last summer plan to implement theHealth Care module in their respective class rooms during the 2009-2010 school year. Studentlearning data will be collected and compared to past years data to quantify the success of the PDprogram.BackgroundINSPIRES Curriculum The INSPIRES curriculum, funded by the National Science Foundation, has beendeveloped and

Conference Session

K-12 and Precollege Engineering Curriculum and Programming Resources, Part 2 of 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoff Wright, Brigham Young University; Kip Hacking

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

(ITEEA, 2000). We believe thatby tying the curriculum to the STL that the activity shows promised in promoting STEM because thesestandards encourage the application of each of the STEM disciplines. The table is has three columns. Thefirst column lists the topic being taught, the second column has a brief on the lesson being taught, and thethird column lists the STL connection. Although we recognize there are many other STEM topics that canbe taught while engaging students in an ROV type activity, these lessons highlight our first iteration. Weplan on further developing and testing additional curriculum resources in subsequent years. We also havenoticed that SeaPerch has started development of ROV focused lesson plans that also teach

Conference Session

Pre-Service Development Initiatives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew D. Lammi, North Carolina State University; Cameron Denson, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, and peer checking procedures. These data were reviewed as theproject moved forward. Themes emerged and were analyzed on an ongoing basis. The differentforms of data were compared and measured against each other. As new data were gathered,further insights were gained. Eventually, themes and phenomena emerged and are analyzed anddiscussed throughout the paper.What Was the Setting? All of the participants in this research were TDE Education majors; essentially, pre-serviceteachers who could become licensed to teach in technology education and graphiccommunications. Although not all of the student-designers had immediate plans to becometeachers upon graduation ‒ non-licensure students ‒ they all were on track to receive aneducation

Conference Session

Pre-Service Development Initiatives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Bethke Wendell, University of Massachusetts Boston

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Preparation inengineering also needs to be sensitive to the demand on elementary teachers to integrate acrossthe curriculum, and the lack of time in the school day to do stand-alone engineering. Pre-serviceelementary teachers will be interested in ways to accomplish multiple objectives at once byintegrating other subjects with engineering and vice versa.There is a strong and growing base of evidence showing that with carefully designed support,pre-service elementary teachers can develop at least three key capacities important to highquality science instruction. First, when planning lessons, they can demonstrate understanding ofthe nature of scientific inquiry by adapting existing curriculum materials to better promotestudents’ engagement in each of

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Thomas Malcolm, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

"back of the envelope problems" that engineers oftenuse to restrict or filter a problem's alternatives in the planning and ideation phases of design 3.Descriptive and correlational statistics were collected and analyzed on the nature of students'multi-step estimates using the 3D Estimator. This paper is structured as follows. The next section deals with the objectives of twostudies that investigated students' use of the 3D Estimator. After that, background concepts fromrelated literature are covered, including operational definitions of key terms. The subsequenttwo sections deal with Study 1 and Study 2, respectively. Finally, there is a section drawingconclusions and briefly describing future work.Objectives This research-to

Conference Session

Computational/CS Initiatives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David R. Wright, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

teachers, and school administrators. We present evidence ofthe immediate success of this workshop through an overview of each of the workshop sessions, acomparison of the participants’ expectations as stated before the workshop with the results of aformal evaluation and assessment independently conducted at the end of the workshop, and anassessment of the workshop from the invited speakers’ perspectives. We also discuss the lessonslearned in the organization and production of this workshop from both technical and participantperspectives and how we plan to apply these lessons in future iterations of this workshop.1 IntroductionComputing has become ubiquitous in the modern world, touching nearly every aspect of our lives. Thewidespread

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering and Pre-College Outreach Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Barger, University of South Florida; Robin Little, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School; Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida; Charles Parsons, Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Elementary School; Debbie O'Hare, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School; Pat Van Driessche, Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Elementary School; Kim Parsons, Pinellas County School District

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

engineers and biographies scientists to society Writing • Research information on • Understanding engineers need Reading engineers/scientists to overcome obstacles and • Write biographies using persevere in order to achieve Science the signs as a formatting • Recognize engineers use plans, guide designs, models within their Technology • Recognize influential work people in history • Characteristics of engineers

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering Outreach Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Devdas Pai, North Carolina A&T State University; Alice Stewart, NCA&T State University; Jagannathan Sankar, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

confident in: • Tracking adequate yearly progress (AYP) • Documenting student achievement on state standards • Instantly gathering student data • Generating comprehensive student and school reports • Applying data to enhance the learning process • Designing lessons that get 100% student participation • Getting students motivated and excited about learning againCamp Summary and Data Presentation: The Engineers Starters Program met in June of 2007 and 13 young men and 11 youngwomen attended. Of the 24 students, 22 were African-American. The CAMSS staff planned andimplemented the 3-day program for the students. Many of the same students attend the campevery year. This camp is an annual event sponsored

Conference Session

Engineering in the Middle Grades

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen High, Oklahoma State University; Becky Hammack, Stillwater Middle School; Beth Watt, Stillwater Middle School; Julie Thomas, Oklahoma State University; Adrienne Redmond, Oklahoma State University; Pat Jordan; Jean Dockers, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

she has been since 2005. Rebekah helps facilitate the after school engineering mentoring program at Stillwater Middle School and plans and teaches the school’s Engineering Summer Camps. Rebekah also serves as the Northeast District Director of the Oklahoma Science Teachers’ Association and is currently pursuing National Board Certification in Early Adolescent Science.Beth Watt, Stillwater Middle School BETH WATT earned her B.S. degrees in 2000 and 2001, and her M.S. in 2008, from Oklahoma State University. She is a sixth grade science teacher at Stillwater Middle School, who is also active in the Oklahoma Science Teachers Association. She strives to teach her students collaboration and

Conference Session

Enhancing Recruitment and Retention in Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Natalie Tran, California State University, Bakersfield; Amy Atwood, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy Prevost, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Al Phelps, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

studying teacher beliefs for engineering education and educational reform.Prior Research on Teacher BeliefsTeachers generally report that their perceptions of students are the most important factors ininstructional planning, and teachers consider their views of student ability to be the characteristicthat has greatest influence on their planning decisions4, 5. Furthermore, teacher beliefs have animpact on students' educational experiences 1, 6, 7. Yet beliefs about learning and instruction aremental constructions mediated by culture and social influences, rather than directly rooted inscientific evidence8, 9. As such, teachers’ beliefs and expectations of students’ knowledge andbehaviors are not always accurate or consistent with educational

Conference Session

Evaluation: Exploring the Impact of Programs for K-12 Teachers.

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anant R. Kukreti, University of Cincinnati; Catherine Maltbie, University of Cincinnati; Julie Steimle, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

global problems in to their X X local and more actionable components6. Guide students in refining problems X X7. Guide students in planning investigations to better understand X X different components of problems8. Provide opportunities for students to gather information about X X problems or issues of importance9. Provide students with opportunities to explore multiple X X solution pathways for problems10. Guide students in weighing the pros and cons of different X X solution pathways11. Provide opportunities for students to test their solution X

Conference Session

Research to Practice: STRAND 2- Engineering Across the Curriculum: Integration with the Arts, Social Studies, Science, and the Common Core

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Steimle, University of Cincinnati; David Linley Macmorine, CEEMS

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, but then found out the wood used wouldnot support the bobby pins and simplified the plan by using just a piece of plywood. Please seeFigure 3 for examples of instruments designed and created by student groups. Figure 3. Examples of Student Designed Instruments Via the Audacity program, students tested their instruments to see if they were in tune. Iwould have the program up and running when the students came into class. After playing theinstrument and importing it into Audacity, students would take the cursor and highlight aselection from the song, and zoom in until they can see the wave form. Often, they would haveto magnify to thousandths of a second to measure the length of one cycle of the wavelength. Todetermine if

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs and Issues

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Cunningham, Museum of Science, Boston; Cathy Lachapelle, Museum of Science, Boston

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

) is a curriculum designed to teach elementary students aboutconcepts in engineering and technology. The curriculum is made up of individual units each ofwhich is intended to supplement and enhance the teaching of a specific science topic. Ten (oftwenty planned) units have been distributed and tested in classrooms so far. Each unit isorganized around the design of a specific technology, and is associated with a field ofengineering: for example, one unit is named Water, Water Everywhere: EnvironmentalEngineering and Designing Water Filters. Each unit begins with a story about a child who solvesa problem using the engineering design process, learned from a relative or other mentor. Thestories are often set internationally, and feature a real or

Conference Session

Gender and Accessibility Issues in K-12 Engineering Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Klenk, Duke University; Frank Dreher, Duke University; Emilie Condon, Githens Middle School; Gary Ybarra, Duke University; Lara Oliver, Duke University; Glenda Kelly, Duke University; Nancy Shaw, Duke University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

case study, anddiscusses publication of the engineering module in the TeachEngineering digital library.Engineering Teaching Fellow TrainingTraining in both classroom management and lesson planning are important to the success ofEngineering Teaching Fellows in any classroom26. An ESL classroom poses additionalchallenges. Teaching in an ESL classroom requires that the Fellow prepare lessons that take intoaccount the language proficiency of the students as well as their background knowledge of atopic. Prior to beginning an engineering activity, the Fellow must first identify the vocabularywords the students will need to learn in order to demonstrate mastery of the activity’s learningobjectives. Met16 indicates that some vocabulary is “content

Conference Session

RET Initiatives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zornitsa Georgieva, West Virginia University; Reagan Curtis, West Virginia University; Tyler A Saenz Saenz, West Virginia University; Miracle David Solley, West Virginia University; Darran Cairns, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

oriented and required a number of different skills and types of knowledge to be appliedin order to develop and refine potential solutions. These activities allowed participants toexperience firsthand what their students will face in the classroom and realize the importance ofproviding well-planned and meaningful support mechanisms to guide students rather than givingthem the solution to the problem. By being learners themselves, they acquired valuableknowledge and skills to address elements imperative for a well-developed and effective PBLunit. Their design-based activities were supported by scientific and mathematical concepts thatwere introduced during their engineering research experiences, further developing participants’understanding of

Conference Session

CEIII Wrapup

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Hull Seale, UCSB; Thalia Anagnos, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. (2013). http://www.nextgenscience.org/4. Sullivan, J. F., Cyr, M. N., Mooney, M. A., Reitsma, R. F., Shaw, N. C., Zarske, M. S. & Klenk, P. A., (2005). The TeachEngineering Digital Library: Engineering Comes Alive for K-12 Youth, Proc.ASEE Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon.5. Johnson, G. (2001). Project Lead The Way® A Pre-engineering Secondary School Curriculum, Proc. 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Albuquerque, New Mexico.6. NEES Strategic Plan 2010-2014. Retrivved March 15, 2013 from http://nees.org/resources/5711/download/strategic_plan_2010-2014.pdf7. Brophy, S., Lambert, J. & Anagnos, T. (2011). NEESacademy: Cyber-enabled Learning Experiences for K-16 Earthquake

Conference Session

K-12 Robotics

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University; Selin Frances Sirinterlikci, Carnegie Mellon University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

opportunities to high schoolstudents. The theme selected for the research activities is alternative actuation methodsfor robotics. These new actuation methods do not utilize conventional electric motors.Recent developments of flexible gumby robots1, interesting memory alloy behaviors2 aswell as other alternative means such as magnetic and pneumatic actuation are employedin attracting students into this field. A 3-day pilot study was developed and conductedwith participation of 8 interested high school students. Students designed and built robotsthat were actuated by pneumatic propulsion or magnetism. This paper will presentobjectives and structure of the initiative, lessons learned from the pilot study, and willconclude with the future plans. As a part

Conference Session

High School Students Thinking and Performance

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University; Nathan Mentzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kyungsuk Park, Utah State University; Shaobo Huang, Utah State University - Engineering Education

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

research methods by addressing the following question: How does highschool student engineering design thinking compare to that of experts in terms of engineeringdesign performance and knowledge?Fifty-nine participants from four states were asked to think out loud in a three hour designchallenge which was video and audio recorded. Verbal protocol analysis was conducted as thestudents engaged in the engineering design process. The area of focus for this paper is timeallocations across essential elements of the design process. This research may help to uncoverthe elusive cognitive thought processes employed by students as they practice engineering designthinking and will inform curriculum developers and teachers planning classroom strategies

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Caroline Noyes, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert DeHaan, Emory University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Institute of Technology, a STEM intensive public university, received an NSFInnovation through Institutional Integration (I3) grant to fund its Tech to Teaching proposal thathad two goals: 1. To create an infrastructure on the campus that encourages and enables students to effectively pursue careers in K-12 or college teaching; and 2. To develop and implement programming that ensures these students succeed in their initial years in these career paths.One component of the assessment plan for this project was to track the “culture” on campus as itpertains to teaching careers – that is to gain an understanding of the perceptions of the faculty,advisors, and administrators of career paths that are centered around education; and to

Conference Session

Thinking, Reasoning & Engineering in Elementary School

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Louis Nadelson, Boise State University; Anne Hay, Boise State University; Pat Pyke, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

program was offered for college credit the participants were required todevelop and submit a series of four lesson plans implementing inquiry-based approaches usingthe manipulatives to teach a concept related to each of the four STEM content areas. Theselessons could have been adapted or adopted from extant lesson plans or developed as originalwork. The BrickLab® manipulatives are part of an educational product that also includes grade-level curriculum books from PCS Edventures!Data CollectionThe goal of our data collection was to gather evidence of how well we prepared our summerinstitute participants to teach using inquiry, evidence of lasting impact, and indicators of anypotential gaps in our professional development program and support. To

Conference Session

Teacher and Counselor Professional Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Justin Osterstrom, Combs Elementary Scho

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

school science specialist had some ofhis classes, ranging from grades 3-5, record a discussion of how they have used smart boards andflip videos in their science classes. This video was used as the basis of a class discussion andwriting assignment. Finally, a portion of the final exam for the course consisted of answeringquestions about videos of the instructor implementing various activities in actual K-5classrooms.One of the semester-long assignments was for the students to choose children’s book and designan activity related to engineering to do with the K-2 classroom to which they were assigned forthe semester. They wrote a proposal for the activity, then after instructor feedback, wrote a fulllesson plan to show to their partner teachers

Conference Session

Engineering in the Middle Grades

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roy McGrann, State University of New York, Binghamton; Wayne Jones, State University of New York, Binghamton; Susannah Gal, State University of New York, Binghamton; Andy Cavagnetto, State University of New York, Binghamton; Dan Brennan, Broome Community College - SUNY; Thomas O'Brien, State University of New York, Binghamton

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. As part of the evaluation plan for the Go Green Institute, pre-experience and post-experience assessments were administered to the participating students to determine whether ornot measurable change in knowledge and skills could be detected as a result of the institute.Items were selected from the state-wide assessments by using an item map which correlated eachtest question with a specific science standard and key idea (or ideas). A total of 38 post-assessments were returned and analyzed. The surveys also suggest that the institute influenced student perceptions of possiblecareers. Greater than 50% of participants indicated that they were likely or very likely to pursuean academic major in a science related field (53%) or a math

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Cross, Carnegie Mellon University; Emily Hamner, Carnegie Mellon University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, we plan to strengthenteacher preparation through our work with the districts and emphasize the use of Arts & Bots asa talent identification and cultivation tool. As part of this emphasis, we will be expanding on theexisting Arts & Bots kit and materials with new components which will be specifically designedfor the cultivation of student talents.One such component we are developing is an expanded resource library of enrichment activitiesfor teachers implementing Arts & Bots. This library is specifically aimed at providing teacherswith activities with which they can tailor their Arts & Bots activities for the talents and interestsof students in their classes. For instance, we are creating an online tutorial targeted at