Wendy Frazier, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Chris Floyd, Brownsburg High School, Brownsburg, IN
Karen Hinkey, Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, Bellevue, WA
2nd Place
Nicholas Jordan, Starbase-Atlantis San Diego
Susan Margolis, Broadview Middle School, Danbury, CT
Chris Dodds, Greenfield McClain High School, Greenfield, OH
3rd Place
N/A
Caleb Dulaney, Darvin Griffin, Erin Hyatt, Mississippi State University
Chase Booth, Ross Hemenway, Valencia Loyd, Mississippi State University
Engineering Education Rocks! is the theme for the EESC's 1st curriculum competition. Submit your best engineering activities and win prizes!
For the first time ever, K-12 engineering educators will have the chance to highlight their creativity and technical know-how. Categories range from elementary to high school.
Hands-on activities and project-based learning are fun and effective ways to help students learn and retain more math and science concepts. By choosing to teach engineering, educators can help students make the links between classroom learning, their everyday lives and the wider world. Project based learning can help students visualize abstract science and math concepts. Using hands-on activities, engineering design serves as the bridge to bring color to math and science concepts. This bridge makes our designed world more understandable, relevant and fun.
By promoting engineering as a viable career option, teachers also:
Help provide a stronger workforce in all fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).
Help create a technologically literate people/society.
Provide students with the skills they will need to thrive in a technological society.
Contest deadline: 4:00 pm PST May 14, 2009
Winners will be notified by May 30, 2009
There are Three Categories
Elementary School Activities
Middle School Activities
High School Activities
Winners in each category will receive a book of all winning curriculum and a certificate. In addition, we will also award each category with grand prize, second place and third place prizes:
Grand Prize: $500 EESC Shopping Spree plus a copy of Time Engineers
Third Place: Set of DVDs plus a copy of Time Engineers
Honorable mentions to be awarded at judges' discretion.
Submission Instructions: Curriculum must be submitted electronically. Submission files may be in Microsoft Word, InDesign, or Acrobat. Other file formats may be acceptable but check with us before submitting your file.
Official Contest Rules:
Winning entries are those that best reflect creativity, innovation and student engagement. Winners are selected based on creativity, imagination, materials and the ability to inspire from among qualified entries.
Entries must include the activity name as the title, pictures, background, how activity relates to engineering, materials list, objective, procedures and student handouts.
All qualified entries received by 4:00pm PST on May 14, 2009 are eligible for the prizes.
No purchase is necessary, Must be 18 or older to enter.
This offer void where prohibited and is subject to all federal, state and local laws.
Previously published curriculum is not acceptable.
Odds of winning depend on the number of entries submitted.
If pictures are submitted, contestants must know the names and addresses of all identifiable people in their pictures. In addition, all people in the picture must know that their picture is being submitted with the curriculum in this contest.
All personal expenses incurred while producing the curriculum are the responsibility of the contestant.
Prizes must be claimed within 30 days of notification. If not claimed, the prizes will be forfeited.
Each winner must agree that his of her name, likeness, city, and winning curriculum may be used by the EESC for promotional and publication purposes without additional compensation. Prior to receiving prizes, each winner will be required to sign a release provided by the EESC to this effect and obtain a release or permission from anyone with proprietary rights in the winning curriculum. Refusal or inability to provide such releases will result in disqualification and all prizes will be forfeited.
The EESC reserves the right to cancel or suspend the contest should any cause beyond the control of the EESC affect the security, administration, fairness, integrity of the contest, or for any reason it deems appropriate, at its sole discretion.
All curriculum must be submitted electronically at www.engineeringedu.com/contest/
Each contestant may enter up to three activities per category.
EESC Curriculum Contest Judging Rubric
The Most Points Wins!
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Pictures, background, materials list, objective, procedures and student handouts are included.
This contest is sponsored in its entirety by The Engineering Education Service Center. For questions or comments regarding this contest or for problems submitting your file, email Celeste Baine.
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