discussion of intellectual property, IP, and entrepreneurship. Before the“Kids and Educators” [3] site existed, there was a four-page document on the USPTO websitecalled “General Information Concerning Patents”. It was an excellent summary of USPTOinformation, including patents, trademarks, service marks, and copyright. Access dates show itwas added to the engineering curriculum in March 2009, along with some teacher-madePowerPoint class notes made from information on other parts of the USPTO website on theprocess of getting a patent. These original notes were not very exciting and mainly consisted of“file some paperwork, pay a fee, file more paperwork, hire a lawyer and pay more fees, then thepatent is either accepted or rejected, and the rejection
assisted the instructorwith daily monitoring of break-out rooms and chat features. All sessions were recorded and made availableto participants upon request. In 2022, the camp was conducted in person rather than virtually.In 2021 and 2022, the instructor used PearDeck to deploy each lesson (see Figure 2 for lesson structure).PearDeck is an interactive presentation program used to increase student engagement and monitorapprehension of instructional objectives. The instructor incorporated additional online instructional toolssuch as Google Slides and Class Dojo in each lesson. Google Slides is an online program used to create,modify and collaborate on presentations in real time. Class Dojo is an online platform that builds cohesiveclassroom
has been an active member of FIRST Lego League and Tech Challenge community for 9 years. His interests are in robotics and aerospace.Mr. Ilias M Bakri Ilias M. Bakri is currently a junior at Louis D. Brandeis High School in San Antonio, Texas. He has been an active member of the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) community for 5 years. Ilias has also been involved in the ALPHA/GT and NHS clubs, and in the Tennis team at his school. His interests are robotics and engineering.Aditya Rao Aditya Rao is a student attending the Northside School of Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. He has participated in FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics for 4 years with the intentions of gaining experience in computer science and
engineering disciplines. Skills in this course map well to Next Generation ScienceStandard (NGSS) HS-ETS1-1 and HS-ETS1-2.Engineering Design is a hybrid flipped-classroom model. Toward the beginning of this semester,this course focuses on skill-building by undergoing a series of mini design challenges as shownin Figure 2. To prepare for each design challenge, learning the tool or skill is an amalgam ofonline video tutorials (outside-of-class preparation) and practical tutorials (in-class practice).Then, students work on a mini design challenge based around the skill upon which they arefocusing. Each challenge has components that are assessed. The outside-of-class preparationtypically involves watching a video and taking an online “checkpoint
-confidence, high school preparation, interest and career goals, and race andgender,” which they believed were interrelated [3]. Of these studies, twenty-eight indicated thathigh school preparation was a factor. The studies revealed a host of high school pedagogicalreason for attrition, including inadequate mathematics (calculus) preparation, low performance inscience classes, including physics, social sciences, and chemistry, overall high school GPA, andhigh school class rank. Some studies indicate that women and racial minorities may have lessaccess to high quality educational resources and opportunities during their high school years,which could impact their level of preparation for engineering programs in postsecondaryeducation. A significant