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

Paper ID #35153Can online summer camps work? Evidence from adapting a high schoolhands-on water quality module for online deliveryMary Elizabeth Foltz, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Mary E. Foltz is a PhD candidate in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on denitrification in agricultural systems and ways to decrease nitrous oxide emissions from denitrification. She has developed and taught five high school science courses and been involved in engineering outreach programs through the university and community. After

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