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It’s about the movement… Promoting engineering to K-12 students is about much more than teaching, mentoring, you or me. Promoting engineering is a movement to help students learn to problem-solve, explore, investigate, analyze, create and think for themselves. It’s a way to teach them to think, assess situations and look for solutions to the problems that confound them daily. It’s about helping them find better ways to get through each and every day – to make life more fun, be more productive or make the world a better place. If the students of today are not up to the task of making the world a better place, where will we be in 10 years, 20 years or 50 years? What kind of planet will we be leaving to future generations? Posted by Celeste Baine on April 7, 2009 Talkback From SV - correct! I've been reading your emails since my son has been in middle school, perhaps since 6th grade. He is now a senior in high school and preparing for college to study math, science, engineering. The "movement" continues at his school as they are getting their school robotics club a boost. For the first time, the club entered VEX competition and won. They are now trying to raise funds to go to the world competition in Dallas, TX. I believe the more he can contribute now (raising funds), the better he'll leave the club to continue strong and help introduce robotics to kids who have not have many opportunities with it. Posted on April 8, 2009 at 2:53 am PST From Brian Lien - I could not agree more. To that end, Steve Moore, Princeton City School Board member, Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnnati Engineering Professor, and myself just presented our pre-engineering program to about 60 school board members and superintendents from around the country at the National School Board Assocaiation conference. My school board member talked about the need to do something, do it now. Eugene talked about the need to collaborated with universities and industry, and I talked about the specifics of the class and what in the 2nd year of implementation I was doing to improve the class. I knew we were successful in the presentation when we went to questions and answers and had 3/4ths of the audiance with questions. Some of them are going to fly out to see our program. One out of state school district wants to partner with us. There is a need to begin a program. As my school board memeber said, "Do something, Do it Now." Posted on April 8, 2009 at 5:58 am PST From Fe Ellen Dumapias - Last year I started the robotics club at my school (North High School in Phoenix, AZ) with 6 students who are still active. These 6 students will graduate next year and I am trying to recruit freshmen to continue what these students have started. I would like to get more teachers involved. How do I get them involved when their plates are already full? Posted on April 9, 2009 at 3:17 pm PST Post your comments to It's about the movement… |
