Tapia, A., & Martinez, J., & Golding, P. (2016, June), Building Professional Communities - Initiating Junior Chapters of MAES & SHPE to Increase STEM Awareness and Professional Practice  Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/p.26413

\bibitem{asee_peer_26413}
  Tapia, A., \& Martinez, J., \& Golding, P. (2016, June), \emph{Building Professional Communities - Initiating Junior Chapters of MAES \& SHPE to Increase STEM Awareness and Professional Practice}
  Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  10.18260/p.26413

Aileen Tapia, Jose Martinez, and Peter Golding P.E..  "Building Professional Communities - Initiating Junior Chapters of MAES & SHPE to Increase STEM Awareness and Professional Practice".  2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2016.  https://peer.asee.org/26413 Internet.  18 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_26413}
  Aileen Tapia, Jose Martinez, and Peter Golding P.E..
  "Building Professional Communities - Initiating Junior Chapters of MAES \& SHPE to Increase STEM Awareness and Professional Practice".
  \emph{2016 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2016.
  https://peer.asee.org/26413 Internet.  18 Jan, 2025

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AB  - In this “Tricks of the Trade” contribution we describe our engineering education outreach efforts into the high schools in our regions since 2009. We will share the rational, process and impact of establishing and developing Junior Chapters of the Professional Society of Mexican American Engineers & Scientists (MAES) – also known as Latinos in Science and Engineering – and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) at high schools in the greater [Blind Removed] region. The Junior Chapters enable the [Blind Removed] MAES/SHPE Student Chapter to reach out as peer mentors to increase STEM awareness in our Hispanic community. In 2013 we expanded from one Junior Chapter to six established chapters. Now, in 2015, there are Junior Chapters associated with seven high school campuses in our region, which encompasses three school districts. 
The value of establishing Junior Chapters is that it supports high school students interested in advancing to STEM degrees at institutions of higher education, and it provides a near peer mentor experience that can assist the Junior Chapter members as they proceed through the process of seeking and commencing university studies.  We are working to help students advance what we call the SHPE driving pillars, which are: (1) academic development, (2) professional development, (3) outreach/community service, (4) leadership development, and (5) chapter development.
The [Blind Removed] MAES/SHPE Student Chapter welcomes Junior Chapters with student membership from all ethnicities for the purpose of increasing the number of Latino youth that enter and complete Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) related careers. The [Blind Removed] MAES/SHPE Student Chapter is committed to high-standards of professionalism and academic achievement in engineering and science. Our [Blind Removed] MAES/SHPE Student Chapter changes lives by empowering the Hispanic community to realize its fullest potential and to impact the world through STEM awareness, access, support and development. We envision a world where Hispanics are highly valued and influential as the leading innovators, scientists, mathematicians and engineers.
The Junior Chapters provide added value through being powerful simultaneously beyond-the-classroom experiential learning of leadership and resilience, as well as personal and team/community growth for [Blind Removed] MAES/SHPE Student Chapter members and high school Junior Chapter members. The Junior Chapter Alumni members have been seen to continue their MAES/SHPE engagement as they move smoothly and better prepared onto university, and then become office bearers in their respective college student chapter, where they continue to change more lives, enabling a process of continuous personal and community growth.
The process of establishing, operating and growing the Junior Chapters is student driven, owned and sustained effort. 

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