Straight, T. R., & Meyer, J., & Osunbunmi, I. S., & Bamidele, B. R., & Mahmoud, M. M., & Becker, K. H., & Phillips, J. D. (2023, June), Board 148: A Qualitative Study of Factors Influencing K-12 Students' Interest in STEM Career (Fundamentals)  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--42480

\bibitem{asee_peer_42480}
  Straight, T. R., \& Meyer, J., \& Osunbunmi, I. S., \& Bamidele, B. R., \& Mahmoud, M. M., \& Becker, K. H., \& Phillips, J. D. (2023, June), \emph{Board 148: A Qualitative Study of Factors Influencing K-12 Students' Interest in STEM Career (Fundamentals)}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--42480

Tristan Robert Straight, Jennah Meyer, Ibukun Samuel Osunbunmi, Bolaji Ruth Bamidele, Murad Musa Mahmoud, Kurt Henry Becker, and Jonathan D. Phillips.  "Board 148: A Qualitative Study of Factors Influencing K-12 Students' Interest in STEM Career (Fundamentals)".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/42480 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_42480}
  Tristan Robert Straight, Jennah Meyer, Ibukun Samuel Osunbunmi, Bolaji Ruth Bamidele, Murad Musa Mahmoud, Kurt Henry Becker, and Jonathan D. Phillips.
  "Board 148: A Qualitative Study of Factors Influencing K-12 Students' Interest in STEM Career (Fundamentals)".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/42480 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Driving the US economy and technological advancement depends heavily on the STEM labor force with a higher education degree. To increase the recruitment of K-12 students into the STEM discipline in college, there is a need to study what factors influence their interest in STEM careers in recent times. In this paper, the researchers explored what influences K-12 students’ interest in STEM careers using semi-structured interviews conducted during an engineering summer camp. 

The camp was held at a local state university in the mountain west region and was funded by the Department of Education’s GEARUP program. The camp enabled students to better understand STEM and what engineers do. The students worked in teams and engaged in various engineering activities as part of the camp. This camp focused on building two types of rockets, launching, adjusting the design, and relaunching. The activities were designed to simulate real product design, starting with an idea, then preliminary design and testing, then a final design.

Data collected for this research came from the summer engineering camp in the summer of 2022. The qualitative data collected via semi-structured interviews were thematically analyzed using MAXQDA 2022 qualitative analysis software. The researchers aimed for intercoder reliability of 0.8. Themes from the analyzed data show that motivation, experiential learning, social influence, engineering camps, and science fairs are major factors influencing K-12 students' interest in STEM careers. Therefore, high-school teachers are encouraged to use project-based and problem-based learning in STEM classrooms. In addition, high school administrators are encouraged to organize STEM outreach and program where high school students can meet STEM-like-minded friends while bonding with family.
AU  - Tristan Robert Straight
AU  - Jennah Meyer
AU  - Ibukun Samuel Osunbunmi
AU  - Bolaji Ruth Bamidele
AU  - Murad Musa Mahmoud
AU  - Kurt Henry Becker
AU  - Jonathan D. Phillips
CY  - Baltimore , Maryland
DA  - 2023/06/25
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Board 148: A Qualitative Study of Factors Influencing K-12 Students' Interest in STEM Career (Fundamentals)
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