1. STEM Class and Science Clubs for Middle School Students Mariela Resendez Arizona State University Roxanna Montoya—Mentor

2. Outline  Introduction  Background  Methods  Results  Discussion  Conclusion  Future Work  Closing  Questions Lowell Future City Model: #5

3. Introduction  Middle school students’ involvement with Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM)  Students participate in Future City and MESA Program  Outreach– volunteer, teach or mentor

4. Background  Student involvement aside math & science classes  Introduced to engineering  Team building  Problem-Solving on a bigger scale  Engineering Design Process  Lowell Elementary (6-8 grade)  Future City  Math, Engineering and Science Achievement (MESA)

5. Project Pictures Lowell Team #2 Brainstorm Lowell Team #3 City Planning

6. Pictures Cont. Lowell Team #5 Lowell Teams #2 &#3

7. Pictures Cont. Lowell Future City Mentors

8. Methods  Data Collection  Surveys  Demographics  Gender  Grade Level

9. Example of Survey

10. Future City Project Approach  National Competition  Student’s Approach  Learn about cities  Brainstorm & design  Build City on SimCity®  Design and Build Model  6 Teams of 7&8 th Grade Students  Kept design notebooks

11. MESA Project (Math, Engineering and Science Achievement)  After-School Based  5 teams  Roller Coaster Team  Cooling Hat Team  Hydropower Challenge  Engineering Design Challenge  Air Rocket Team  All teams track changes on notebooks

12. Diversity in STEM Class and Science Class  Female to Male Ratio Grade Level:6 th 7 th 8 th # of Participants 8912  Total Number of Participants Female Male

13. Results  Project Results Lowell Team #1 City Model

14. Results Cont. Lowell Team #2 City Model Lowell Team #3 City Model

15. Results Cont. Lowell Team #4 City Model

16. Results Cont. Lowell Team #5 City Model Lowell Team #6 City Model

17. Discussion  Students able to engineer projects  Designed, built and maintained cities  Not able to attend competition  STEM Class moved to after school science club  MESA teams are formulated with different students  Competition is April 12 th

18. Conclusion  Students enjoy hands-on projects  Students are happy to compete academically  More exposure, more involvement  More exposure leads to talent discovery  Mentors are impactful  Higher education

19. Future Work  Create a solid curriculum for after school program  Similar to that of the STEM Class  Enhance the Engineering Design Process  Develop more projects for Fall aside from Future City  Is exposure at a young age a deciding factor?  Further research needed  Target other schools in different part of the valley with same project  See whether interest rises in same grade in another part of valley

20. Thank you, Questions?