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

Paper ID #241352018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29Engineers on Wheels: A Mobile Engineering Outreach ProgramMs. Bhumi Mevawala, Engineers on Wheels I am a senior Civil Engineering major at Rowan University focusing on the studies of young students and engineering in the nearby public schools since the beginning of 2017. As a researcher, I am tasked with surveying the students at the beginning and at the end of the program to calculate how many students interest in engineering has changed over the weeks after multiple activities and simulations

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

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Pre K-12 Education

Paper ID #215632018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29miniGEMS STEAM and Programming Camp for Middle School GirlsDr. Michael Frye, University of the Incarnate Word Michael T. Frye, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of the Incarnate Word, in San Antonio, TX. He is an Electrical Engineer who specialized in the field of nonlinear control theory with applications to autonomous air vehicles. Dr. Frye’s research interest is in discovering new and efficient techniques that mitigates the

Conference Session

Pre K-12 Track - Technical Session VI

Collection

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

Authors

Suzanne Sontgerath, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Ryan Nicole Meadows, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity, Pre K-12 Education

Paper ID #242322018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29A Comparison of Changes in Science Interest and Identity and 21st CenturyLearning Skills in a Mixed-Gender and Single-Gender Robotics Program forElementary/ Middle School YouthMs. Suzanne Sontgerath, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Sontgerath holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an M.Ed. from Worcester State University. She is currently the Director of Pre-collegiate Outreach Programs at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Sontgerath supervises K-12 STEM

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

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Pre K-12 Education

building a robot. Because this might beconstrued as appealing more to male students, some groups might, instead, propose an activity todesign high heeled shoes. The outreach program described in this paper seeks to designactivities that are neither male NOR female linked, that use authentic constraints and relate toreal-world problems. Other examples included in the paper will be how programs are advertised,budgetary considerations in low socioeconomic areas and more. This approach to preK-12outreach has contributed to a sharp increase in the diversity of a large College of Engineering.Research basisThe Engineering Place, the K-12 engineering outreach program at North Carolina StateUniversity, grew out of an initial effort to increase the

Conference Session

Pre-K12 Track - Technical Session II

Collection

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

Authors

Ardice Hartry, University of California, Berkeley; Maia Werner-Avidon, MWA Insights; Sherry Hsi, Concord Consortium; Ariel J. Ortiz, Lawrence Hall of Science; Kathryn Chong Quigley, Lawrence Hall of Science

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Diversity, Pre K-12 Education

participants, like the youth in the comparison group, joined the program because of adesire to do something related to science, technology, or engineering; have fun; gain workexperience; and do something at the Hall. Compared to participants in the comparison group,TechHive participants were more interested in activities related to technology or engineeringthan were comparison group youth. TechHive youth were also more likely than comparisongroup youth to join because they thought the program would be fun. They did not report joiningthe program because their parents wanted them to participate, they needed to fulfill communityservice requirements, or because they knew other people in the program.One thing that TechHive struggled with, however, was the

Conference Session

Pre-K12 Track - Technical Session II

Collection

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

Authors

Jacqueline Handley, University of Michigan; Elizabeth Birr Moje

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Diversity, Pre K-12 Education

]. Further, the lack of access andinclusion begins much earlier than the college level. Traditionally, access to pre-collegeengineering education programming in classrooms could be described as limited and sporadic,with most such programs in extra-curricular or summer programming [16]–[19]. Such programsare important but depend on students being able to access them and may not be sustained overmore than a few weeks’ time. Thus, issues of access and exclusion in engineering can begin inK-12 education: students without access to such programming have had less opportunity todevelop an engineering identity, defined here as relating to, “…[students] earliest conceptions ofengineering and potential career aspirations and how these conceptions and