Conference Session

Pre K-12 Track - Technical Session V

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Michael Frye, University of the Incarnate Word; Chaoyi Wang, University of the Incarnate Word; Sreerenjini C. Nair, University of the Incarnate Word; Yvonne Calvo Burns, Camp Program Coordinator

Tagged Topics

Pre K-12 Education

levels, thestudents and their parents can make an informed decision about pursuing a university educationin STEAM [2,3]. The authors’ discussions with various funding agencies and many professionalsin K-12 STEAM education point to the fact that there needs to be more emphasis given to thestudents and their parents regarding the importance of studying science at the elementary andmiddle school levels [4-6]. An additional motivation was the passing of State House Bill 5 (HB5). The bill madesubstantial changes to the state’s curriculum and high school graduation requirements since itwas passed by the state legislature in 2013. HB5 came into effect in Fall 2016 and has threemajor components: 1) A core set of courses each student