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Lynford Goddard
NSF Noyce ConferenceMay 25, 2012
Catalyzing partnerships for developing STEM outreach programs
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How did you develop a love for STEM?
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Outline• ChicTech
– Saturday program for high school girls
• Girls Learning Electrical Engineering (GLEE)– 1 week summer camp for high school girls
• Brain Fitness Fridays (BFFs)– 4 Friday program for K-8 students
• Illinois Summer Academy– 3 day program for high school students
• Principles of Experimental Research– Class for senior undergrads and new grad students
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Chic Tech• CS and ECE students and faculty organized a Saturday
workshop for local high school girls in fall 2009– Modeled after the very successful UIUC Saturday Physics for
Everyone (SPE) program– Put together a good list of presenters and activities– Sent program flyers to local teachers and counselors
• No high school students showed up!• Lessons learned:
– Not all outreach projects will be successful– New programs must have a strong partnership with the schools
for recruiting– Participants should register in advance
G.A.M.E.S.
GLEE Camp
Girls Learning Electrical EngineeringAmong all engineering fields, EE has one of the largest gender gaps (ASEE reports only 11.5% of EE degrees nationwide were awarded to women in 2009)
Partnered with the existing and highly successful Girls’ Adventures in Math, Engineering, and Science (GAMES) program for 6th - 9th grade girls to develop a new EE program in 2010 for girls entering 10th - 11th grade
Explores several fields in EE: electronics, circuits, power and energy, signal processing, electromagnetics, and nanotechnology by studying how a cell phones works
Program seeks to address both recruitment and retention
G.A.M.E.S.
Civil Engineering (6th-7th)
CS (7th-8th)
BioImaging (8th-9th)
BioEng/ChemEng (9th-10th)
Original 4 camps (2009)
G.A.M.E.S.
Program consists of:1. morning classes that include hands-on
labs to provide exposure to 10 sub-fields of EE,
2. team projects in the afternoons to allow the girls to do “engineering!”
3. hands on demos in research labs at Illinois
4. social activities after dinner, and5. connecting campers to faculty mentors
and female students in EE at Illinois and to Motorola volunteers
GLEE Camp
G.A.M.E.S.
Main project: build an FM phone (FM transmitter) out of discrete components – the girls apply what they’ve learned about EE and cell phones. Each team synthesizes their ideas and designs/lays out their circuit on a prototyping board. They perform experiments on their prototypes. Finally, campers solder together their own FM phone that they get to play with in the dorms and to take home.
Encouraging Innovation
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GLEE 2010
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Each team has a bag with a battery clip, batteries, an LED, and a resistor
Carry out a 2-factor experiment to determine under which conditions the LED will light up
No talking with other teams (we want independent results)
Factorsx1=Red wire to shorter (-1) or longer (+1) LED legx2=Resistor and LED in series (-1) or parallel (+1)
Hands on activities
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• Factors– x1=Red wire to shorter (-1) or longer (+1) LED leg
– x2=Resistor and LED in series (-1) or parallel (+1)
Series
Battery LED Resistor
Parallel
BatteryLED
Resistor
RESULTS Short leg (x1=-1) Long leg (x1=+1)
Parallel (x2=+1)
Series (x2=-1)
LED experiment
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• Not given all the details. Some groups find only 1 connection works whereas some other groups find their device always fails. They have to figure out why. Opens a curiosity gap.
• Teams want to solve the mystery– Allow them to talk with other teams to find out what variables
were overlooked
• Teaches them how to draw conclusions from observations and that the world is full of non-ideal problems where a solution may not exist
Curiosity based learning
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Feedback from non-STEM staff to make an age appropriate workbook
G.A.M.E.S.
Camp planning: Lynford Goddard, Young Mo Kang, Steve McKeown, Minosca Alcantara, Kris Ackerman, Sue Larson, Kathy Nibeck, Renee Massey, and Heather ThompsonRecruiting: High school teachers and counselors, NSBE, SHPE, family, friendsAssessment: College of Engineering, Women in EngineeringCamp manuals: Lynford Goddard, Young Mo Kang, Steve McKeown, Cori Johnson, Alex Haser, Alandria Lark, Jacquelyn DiMonte, Gautam Shine, and Amir ArbabiCurriculum review: Kris Ackerman, Renee Massey, Heather Thompson, Jana SebestikCamp Instructors: Professors Lynford Goddard, Tangül Başar, Jennifer Bernhard, Marie-Christine Brunet, Xiuling Li, Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, Philip Krein and Students Young Mo Kang and Steve McKeownLab Assistants: Rebecca Marcotte, Stephanie Chou, Sai Ma, and Kamaria Massey Counselors: Alex Haser, Kelli Coleman, and Christina PoonTour Leaders: Prof. Stephen Boppart, Stanton Cady, Lydia Majure, Dane Sievers, Young Mo Kang, Steve McKeown, and Josephine LuECE lab support: Dan Mast and Wally SmithGuest presentations: Peggy Matson from Motorola This camp was made possible through generous donations by the Motorola Foundation, donated software from National Instruments, and technical support from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Women in Engineering program, and the College of Engineering.
Catalyzing Partnerships
G.A.M.E.S.
Moved from middle school to high school in 2011
Robotics (9th-10th)Bioengineering (9th-11th)Chemical Engineering (9th-11th)Environmental Engineering (9th-12th)Aerospace Engineering (9th-12th)Girls Learning Electrical Engineering (10th-12th)Girls Learning About Materials (10th-12th)
Needed to form new partnerships, e.g. with high school teachers/counselors to be able to [email protected]
GAMES 2012
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Outline• ChicTech
– Saturday program for high school girls
• Girls Learning Electrical Engineering (GLEE)– 1 week summer camp for high school girls
• Brain Fitness Fridays (BFFs)– 4 Friday program for K-8 students
• Illinois Summer Academy– 3 day program for high school students
• Principles of Experimental Research– Class for senior undergrads and new grad students
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Brain Fitness Fridays (BFFs)• Kinesiology Department runs a popular Summer Sports
Fitness camp for K-8 students (Mon-Thur)• In 2011, Technology Entrepreneur Center and
Engineering faculty launched BFFs to engage these students in hands-on STEM activities– Topics included design, entrepreneurship, nanotechnology,
robotics, the math and science of sports, and Mentos launching– Parents loved it: educational and cheaper than paying a
babysitter
• Partnership created a unique outreach program– Reached out to kids who were not pre-disposed to STEM– 42 kids (19 female) with ages ranging from 5-14 participated in
the BFF program during the four week camp
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Brain Fitness Fridays (BFFs)• Leveraged existing outreach efforts
– NSF Nano-CEMMS center, Micro and Nanotechnology Lab,
Physics Van, FabLab, TEC and the Solar Decathlon project • Split group as K-4 and 5-8 for age appropriate activities
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Illinois Summer Academy• New outreach program for summer 2012
– 3 day camps in: Aerospace Engineering, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Art & Design, Bioengineering, Crop Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, Leadership, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Physics, Veterinary Medicine
• Partnership with national 4-H club through the UI chapter• Plan to leverage existing outreach efforts
– GLEE and Engineering Open House activities
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New course: ECE 498LG (446)
Chip Scale OpticalSpectrum Analyzers - Weare fabricating compact 2Ddiffractive optical elementsfor wide span and highresolution spectroscopy.
Distributed Bragg Reflectorin a Microring Resonator -The structure serves as asingle frequency or a combmirror. The structure iscompact, highly reflective,and has good side modesuppression due to multiplereflections with the grating.
Other Research Areas Education and OutreachPrinciples of ExperimentalResearch - This is a newlycreated course to quicklydevelop new students intoindependent researchers.
Girls Learning ElectricalEngineering (GLEE) - Weare developing a new weeklong residential camp toengage 10th and 11th gradegirls in EE activities andlearning. It will be offeredin 2010 as part of GAMES(Girls Adventures in Math,Engineering, and Science).
Principles of Experimental Research
• Develop students into independent researchers– Design of experiment– Experimental techniques/instruments– Data collection and analysis– Oral/written presentation of research– Scientific computing (LabVIEW, Matlab)
• Open ended labs to build cool stuff• Independent experiment on your topic of choice• Great opportunity for research experience, especially if you can’t get
into undergrad research with a prof• ECE lab elective
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Summary• Do what you do best – EDUCATE!
• Form partnerships to handle logistics, provide unique learning or research experiences, or perform assessment and evaluation– Let them do what they do best– Work closely to recruit, retain, and inspire your students
• Leverage your efforts– If they haven't seen it, it's new to them– No need to reinvent the wheel