Chipps, J., & Dalal, M., & Carberry, A. R., & Kouo, J. (2023, February), Exploration of the role and needs of high school counselors in supporting broader participation within engineering fields  Paper presented at 2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD), New Orleans , Louisiana. 10.18260/1-2--44794

\bibitem{asee_peer_44794}
  Chipps, J., \& Dalal, M., \& Carberry, A. R., \& Kouo, J. (2023, February), \emph{Exploration of the role and needs of high school counselors in supporting broader participation within engineering fields}
  Paper presented at 2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD), New Orleans , Louisiana.
  10.18260/1-2--44794

Jeanette Chipps, Medha Dalal, Adam R Carberry, and Jennifer Kouo.  "Exploration of the role and needs of high school counselors in supporting broader participation within engineering fields".  2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD), New Orleans , Louisiana, 2023, February.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/44794 Internet.  19 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_44794}
  Jeanette Chipps, Medha Dalal, Adam R Carberry, and Jennifer Kouo.
  "Exploration of the role and needs of high school counselors in supporting broader participation within engineering fields".
  \emph{2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD), New Orleans , Louisiana, 2023, February}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/44794 Internet.  19 May, 2024

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AB  - [PROJECT NAME] is an initiative aimed at broadening participation within engineering through implementation of a high school curriculum which emphasizes that engineering is for everyone. In addition to working with students and teachers, the project team seeks to engage additional stakeholders in the discussion of how to support all learners in engineering with the goal of advancing the ideal that anyone can engage in engineering. To this end, high school counselors were asked to join a professional learning experience in the summer of 2020 and later join project’s learning community of practice.  We wanted to introduce this stakeholder group to the tenets of the project and to create a bigger network to support students at the schools in which the project curriculum is being taught. In subsequent years, counselors who participated in the initial training and the learning community have been interviewed individually or in focus groups to better understand how the pre-college environment supports broader participation of students in engineering. Altogether, 3 focus groups and five individual interviews have been conducted. Findings from these focus groups suggests that even after 3 years post-professional learning, these counselors are considering how to support broader participation, particularly for girls, in engineering. They are still reporting the existence of barriers to participation in engineering coursework, including either a real or imagined need to take advanced math coursework and a lack of knowledge of the field of engineering. In the most recent focus group conducted during the Spring of 2022, participants reported constraints in how the counseling process occurs as a barrier to informing students and others about the course, suggesting that to effect additional systemic change further supports for counselors might be necessary to address common barriers within counseling systems. These findings suggest that enhancing the understanding of engineering careers and capacity building of school counselors could be an effective approach towards broader participation. However, more importantly, the engineering education community needs to recognize the often-neglected stakeholder group of school counselors and the pivotal role counselors play in students’ career pathways.  
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