TY - GEN
T1 - Collaboration Instead of Competition
T2 - 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2022
AU - Dalal, Medha
AU - Carberry, Adam
AU - Efe, Steve
AU - James-Okeke, Petronella
AU - Rogers, David
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This Innovative Practice Work-in-Progress paper aims to capture a unique attempt to break down silos between two pre-college STEM initiatives. A myriad of programs has emerged to provide pre-college students with engineering or robotics experiences. Such initiatives are typically undertaken independent of one another. Engineering For Us All (e4usa) and For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) are two such programs designed to excite youth about STEM careers, specifically engineering. One provides a classroom experience, while the other is primarily extracurricular, affording informal learning experiences. The parallel missions of these two programs provided the impetus for a new partnership, e4usa+FIRST, to leverage the collective strengths of each program and expand engineering access to underserved schools. A workshop was conducted that brought together a variety of stakeholders to explore numerous approaches of blending the two programs. This paper details the design of the workshop and the five emergent blending models. The results advance an argument for the involvement of all stakeholders to create an ecosystem at the pre-college level to broaden participation in engineering education. The study has the potential to impact future motivation and design of pre-college STEM education and outreach programs.
AB - This Innovative Practice Work-in-Progress paper aims to capture a unique attempt to break down silos between two pre-college STEM initiatives. A myriad of programs has emerged to provide pre-college students with engineering or robotics experiences. Such initiatives are typically undertaken independent of one another. Engineering For Us All (e4usa) and For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) are two such programs designed to excite youth about STEM careers, specifically engineering. One provides a classroom experience, while the other is primarily extracurricular, affording informal learning experiences. The parallel missions of these two programs provided the impetus for a new partnership, e4usa+FIRST, to leverage the collective strengths of each program and expand engineering access to underserved schools. A workshop was conducted that brought together a variety of stakeholders to explore numerous approaches of blending the two programs. This paper details the design of the workshop and the five emergent blending models. The results advance an argument for the involvement of all stakeholders to create an ecosystem at the pre-college level to broaden participation in engineering education. The study has the potential to impact future motivation and design of pre-college STEM education and outreach programs.
KW - pre-college preparation
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U2 - 10.1109/FIE56618.2022.9962655
DO - 10.1109/FIE56618.2022.9962655
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85143747911
T3 - Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
BT - 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 8 October 2022 through 11 October 2022
ER -