Conference Session

Mid Atlantic Papers

Collection

2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

Authors

Emily Alexandra German, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Niki Taylor Taheri, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Shouling He, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

, respectively.Development of Workshop IdeasA large part of STEM Outreach is not just the content, but choosing an engineering project that’sworth remembering. If a child enjoys the workshop, they’ll be more inclined to remember theengineering concepts or the field itself. This is why the members of Vaughn’s SWE Chapterworked hard to develop a project idea that would best fit the background of the students. Theworkshop should be able to spark engineering interests in young minds. It should be simple, fun,and most importantly, educational, i.e. visible and understandable.Music can be seen as a universal language because of its presence in every culture, religion, orregion. According to Ian Cross, Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge5, it is suggestedthat