Friday, December 02, 2005

Growing a STEM Team This came in over the PGELIST listserv and I am just reposting the whole announcement here, since some of you may be interested in outreach programs and looking for resources.  I am not acquainted with this resource but it has been highly praised by several leading experts in the women and science/engineering community, notably Jane Daniels, Sherry Woods, and Cinda-Sue Davis.  The Growing a STEM Team! Manual is designed to serve as a resource for people interested in conducting gender equitable outreach to K12 classrooms. The manual has two parts. The first part contains classroom tested engineering activities for 8th grade middle school classrooms such as "The Great Orange Juice Squeeze", "Binary in a Box" and "Design a Wacky Shoe". The second part describes how to form and prepare a team of students, faculty and practicing engineers (a Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics or "STEM Team") to deliver these activities in the classroom. This project is sponsored by the Programs in Gender Equity (PGE) Division of the National Science Foundation (HRD 0217110). We have a limited number of copies to distribute free of charge. If you are interested in receiving a free copy of these materials, we ask that you go to the following website to enter your mailing information on or before October 26th, 2005. We hope the DVD will be completed and duplicated so that we can send the manual and DVD out together in early November, 2005. In addition to gathering your mailing information, the website has a short, 2 question questionnaire which will help us understand how these materials are being used. We will also be contacting you in a few months to ask for your feedback on these materials. We thank you in advance for your cooperation in sharing that feedback with us. If you have any further questions, please contact us at STEM at TUFTS dot EDU.              Thank you for your time! Sincerely, Meredith Knight Program Coordinator, STEM Team Project Center for Engineering Education Outreach Tufts University  4:20:14 PM    comment []

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