Conference Session

Outreach and K-12

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Mary Elizabeth Foltz, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Sotiria Koloutsou-Vakakis, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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Outreach and K-12

influence their decisions toward selectingengineering majors in college and engineering career paths [1]. The Environmental Engineeringand Sustainability summer camp for high school students has been offered at the University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2012, under the summer camp outreach umbrella of theGrainger College of Engineering [2]. The week-long camp includes hands-on activities aimed tointroduce students to engineering design, scientific inquiry, sustainability, and how engineerscontribute to protecting human health and the environment. In summer 2020, due to thepandemic, the camp was reformatted from in-person to virtual. The virtual platform enabled thecamp to reach more students, especially those with limited resources to

Conference Session

Outreach and K-12

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Gene L. Harding P.E., Purdue University (PPI); Taylor Andrew Hansen, Purdue Alumni

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Outreach and K-12

exposingpotential college students to the engineering technology programs offered locally. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings | Paper ID 35160One of the authors, observing the popularity of Bluetooth speakers among teenagers, got the ideaof offering a summer camp during which students would build their own Bluetooth speakers. Heregularly speaks to high school students about engineering careers. Each time he did so he askedwhat they thought about such a camp. Interest was high among students, and the director likedthe idea, so it was set. The plan was to design a Bluetooth speaker, then develop hands-oneducational activities to combine with the speaker