Conference Session

Track: Pre-college - Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Tanya D. Ennis, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Pre-College

faculty provided a brief 2-minute overview of their research areas before breaking into small groups to visit the research labs. The program director created small groups of students based on research interests and grouped women students with women research faculty when possible. Research faculty conducted the lab tours and presented the details about their research to students. The presentations ended with Q&A sessions in the research labs. Although only a few majors were represented in the Research 101 workshops, the faculty delivered powerful messages about the importance and excitement of engineering research. Since summer bridge was in the summer, many faculty were away and not