Conference Session

Engineering Student Involvement in K12 Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill Andrews, University of Michigan; Lorelle Meadows, University of Michigan; Joy Oguntebi, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

following term.Page 13.510.13To help support the ongoing partnership between fellows and teachers, the College seeksongoing funding from a variety of sources, including various corporate and private foundationsand the NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) Program. Managed byNSF's Division of Graduate Education (DGE), GK-12 provides funding to graduate students inscience, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines to acquire additionalskills that will broadly prepare them for professional and scientific careers in the 21st century.NSF developed the GK-12 program recognizing that, in addition to being competent researchers,STEM graduate students must be able to communicate science and research to a variety