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Download full textSue Schroeder; Barbara L. Stewart; Olivia Johnson – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2024
DesignYOU! Code Camp is a grant-funded summer outreach camp designed to increase interest in coding and STEM careers among middle school students (6th - 8th graders) through an innovative, immersive summer camp experience. To make the concepts of coding more palpable, researchers incorporated fashion and retail allowing students to learn through…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Summer Programs, Outreach Programs, Coding
Direct linkThomas H. Linz; Mario A. Cornejo; Courtney E. Cunningham; Hao T. Mai; Shakila H. Peli Thanthri – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
A collection of four activities for science outreach events was developed to teach middle school students about the temperature dependence of scientific phenomena. Procedures are described for four interactive demonstrations on phase changes, fluorescence, viscosity effects on diffusion, and conductivity. Each hands-on activity helps students…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Science Instruction, Climate, Scientific Concepts
Andrea Arnold – PRIMUS, 2024
Sonia Kovalevsky Days (SK Days) are nationally-held outreach events that are commonly organized by local chapters of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) to encourage young women to continue their study of mathematics. The AWM Student Chapter at Worcester Polytechnic Institute hosted virtual renditions of SK Day for middle school girls…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Outreach Programs, Middle School Students, Females
Greg J. Strimel; Sydney Seban; Jackson Otto; Liesl Krause-Klein – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2024
Manufacturers have expressed concerns about talent shortages, citing the perceptions held by students/parents of the industry as a major contributing factor. At the same time, policymakers/educational leaders continue to call for STEM education programming to maintain competitiveness in such industries. Accordingly, manufacturers have launched…
Descriptors: Industry, STEM Careers, Outreach Programs, Manufacturing
Carly D. Robinson; Biraj Bisht; Susanna Loeb – Educational Researcher, 2025
Billions of dollars are invested in opt-in educational resources to support struggling students. Yet there is no guarantee these students will use these resources. We report results from a school system's implementation of on-demand tutoring. The take-up was low. At baseline, only 19% of students ever accessed the platform, and low-performing…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Student Participation, Equal Education, Outreach Programs
Shruthi Srinath Chakravarthy; Venkata Krishna Bayineni – Teaching Science, 2025
Science knowledge is deeply intertwined with Microorganisms, which play essential roles in healthcare, food production and environmental management, making their study crucial for understanding impacts on food safety, spoilage and disease prevention. This research introduces hands-on activities designed for high school students (aged 14-15) to…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Workshops, Grade 8, Outreach Programs
Alyssa Lee Mullins – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This was a qualitative study of the influence of Research Experiences for STEM Educators and Teachers (RESET) on a teachers' classroom practices and identities. RESET is a year-long professional development and research experience for teachers supported through the Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP). This research study inductively analyzed…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Teacher Attitudes, Professional Identity, Faculty Development
Marilyn Rowell; Megan Ennes; Brian Abramowitz – Connected Science Learning, 2024
Scientist-led K-12 outreach offers many benefits to scientists, teachers, and students; however, many of these programs are top down rather than collaborative. Our team facilitated a museum-based scientist-teacher partnership to co-design a lesson on shark biology for middle school students. Following the implementation of the lesson, we conducted…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Science Education, Science Projects
Perea, Jose Dario; Gasca, Diana Carolina; Echeverry-Prieto, Ghisliane; Quiroga-Fonseca, Valentina; Orozco-Donneys, Carolina; Díaz-Montealegre, Leidy Catherine; Ortiz, Alejandro; Molina, Giovanny; Cruz, Daniel; Persad, Aaron; Redd-Kantareddy, Sai Nithin; Wachsmuth, Josua; Heumueller, Thomas; Brabec, Christoph; Rodriguez-Toro, Victor Alfonso; Salguero, Carolina – European Journal of STEM Education, 2021
As part of an unprecedented collaborative outreach effort, we implemented an innovative STEM outreach project, where more than 80 middle and high school students from different traditionally underrepresented school districts in Colombia--with no previous knowledge on material science or photovoltaics--created Last Generation Solar Cells (LGSCs)…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Outreach Programs, Middle School Students, High School Students
Yong, Shirley A.; Kawtharani, Malak; Ashcroft, Jared M.; Rodriguez, Brandon A. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
To promote a STEM career pipeline, a mentor outreach program was created within a K-12 charter school network, with a pilot year focusing on eighth and ninth-grade students. Utilizing a small cohort of volunteers from a nearby community college as student mentors and one faculty member, 12 visits were conducted throughout the school year. The…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Mentors, Guided Pathways, Student Empowerment
An Approach to Engaging Students Underrepresented in Medicine through Medical Student-Led Activities
Ellis Bronstein; Arnyce Pock; Samuel Chen – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2025
This project highlights a collection of innovative and interactive educational activities designed to stimulate student interest in a medically related career field. These activities were piloted with a class of 21 7th grade female students who live in predominantly low-income, African American, urban communities in and around Washington, D.C.…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Grade 7, Medical Education, Career Choice
Hilarie Davis; Bradford Davey; Jamie Cornish; Nora Smith; Tugba Boz; Rebekah Hammack – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2025
Disease ecology classes were conducted at two residential middle school summer camps held at a university--a camp for local youth who paid tuition and a free camp for youth from statewide underserved communities including Native, low-income, and rural. Disease ecology is defined as the ecological study of host-pathogen interactions within the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Outreach Programs, Partnerships in Education, Disadvantaged
Rijul Asri; Humberto Baquerizo; Mercedes Padilla-Register; Maria Soto-Greene; Jeremy J. Grachan – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
Health professions outreach programs are important avenues to increase interest in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). One aspect of many of these programs is anatomy, which can be challenging to teach due to its scope. Creative teaching methods, such as the incorporation of examples from pop culture, can help…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Science Instruction, Middle School Students, High School Students
Yonai, Ella; Blonder, Ron – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2020
A one-hour guided discourse was designed to support developing the outreach communication skills of physics experts with middle school students. The participants consisted of 12 physics researchers who conduct research in the field of nanoscale science and technology (NST). The guided discourse consisted of a professional development task for…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Skill Development, Expertise, Physics
Jamie Loizzo; Caroline Nickerson; Caroline Barnett; Taylor Nash; Laura Warner; Savanna Barry; Micheal Allen – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2023
Virtual reality (VR) and electronic field trips (EFT) can introduce youth to natural environments, climate change mitigation strategies, and related STEM careers. We developed a VR and EFT outreach program featuring scientists working on living shorelines for coastal restoration as a response to sea-level rise and examined the program's impacts on…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Field Trips, Computer Uses in Education, STEM Education
