Conference Session

PreK-12 Track -. Technical Session III

Collection

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

Authors

Bhumi Mevawala, Engineers on Wheels; Angelique Tucker, Engineers on Wheels; Amanda Rose Basantis, Engineers on Wheels; Elizabeth Beatty, Engineers on Wheels; Joseph Egan, Engineers on Wheels; Kauser Jahan, Rowan University

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Pre K-12 Education

Rowan University for six years and currently is an advisory board member of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Council on Education (ACE) Office of Women in Higher Education (OWHE). She received a Fulbright award in 2015. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Engineers on Wheels: A Mobile Engineering Outreach Program Rowan University Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering Glassboro, New Jersey March 15, 2018 Dr. Kauser Jahan

Conference Session

PreK-12 Track -. Technical Session III

Collection

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

Authors

Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University

Tagged Topics

Pre K-12 Education

mentoring structure. Teachersare paired with engineering students with a group of approximately twelve K-12 students(grouped by age: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-10 and 11-12). High school interns provide support to theteacher/engineering student teams. The whole group is trained and advised by engineeringfaculty. Extensive training is provided to the teachers and engineering students in questioningstrategies, guiding inquiry and open-ended design. [9] An important feature of the camp designis to make explicit and purposeful connections to the students’ experiences and curriculum intheir formal education, ascribing to the theory of additive learning [10]. This provides acontinuity of learning and ties the new activities to the students’ own experiences.Finally