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4.00 0.79 0.003 I plan to use technology in my future career 3.00 4.33 0.57 0.057 I am interested in careers that use technology 2.60 4.20 0.89 0.016 I plan to use engineering in my future career 2.77 4.11 0.71 0.000 I am interested in careers that use engineering 3.00 4.44 0.55 0.005As can be seen in Table 4, the change in student STEM career interest as reflected in all but onequestion was significant. There was an upward trend in the low interest students’ interest incareers in STEM fields. The only question that was not significant is “I plan to use technology inmy future career” with a p-value of 0.057. The same
the earliest ages standthe best chance of continuing on career paths that will bring them greater economic prosperity.By increasing the opportunities for a greater and more diverse population of students to haveaccessibility to these subjects, the greater the number of curious, scientifically literate studentswill be prepared to learn and pursue engineering careers.AcknowledgmentsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (under GrantNo. 1647405) and National Grid. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of thefunding partners.References[1] J. P. Holdren, M. Cora, and S. Suresh. Federal STEM
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well as the barriers theyperceive to doing so. Results indicated that most elementary teachers support the inclusion ofengineering within the science standards for elementary grades. Teachers describe lack ofpreservice and in-service training, lack of background knowledge, lack of materials, lack of timefor planning and implementing lessons, and lack of administrative support as barriers toimplementing engineering activities within their classrooms.*The views and opinions of the speaker expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect thoseof the U.S. Government or any agency thereof.Introduction The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) incorporated engineering practices intoK-12 science standards [1], and because NGSS calls for
. collaborated on thedevelopment of a software package based on the Robot Operating System (ROS) to facilitateseamless communication and transfer of location information between robots. To effectively setupa distributed network (see Figure 7) and enable information transfer between the robots, they hadto understand the concept of custom messages in ROS. Later, using fiducial marker-based tracking,they extracted localization information and constructed a custom message that is transferred topeer robots. The project further involved reflecting the localization information of the robots intoan iPad app for user interaction.4.6. Game-based tele-rehabilitative solutions for stroke patients: The goal of Mr. A.R. in thisproject was to iterate through the
supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.DRL- 1543175. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation. 14The PictureSTEM curriculum that was implemented as part of this study was developed byTamara Moore, Kristina Tank, Elizabeth Gajdzik (and everyone else…). We would also like toacknowledge the other members of this project team who contributed to the design of this studyand collection of the data: Sean Brophy, Annwesa Dasgupta, Elizabeth Gajdzik, Morgan Hynes,Tony Lowe, Tamara Moore, Muhsin Menekse