1. Central Texas Section Chapter
IEEE K-12
Central Texas Section Chapter
Hema Ramaswamy
IEEE Central Texas Section Fall Meeting September 24, San Marcos, TX

2. 2016 Central Texas Chapter Leadership Team
Hema Ramaswamy - Chapter Chairman
Lead for “Science In A Box”
Ananth Dodabalapur - Vice Chair
Lead for “Future City”
Jad Jadeja Vice Chair
Lead for ”Make the World a Better Place”
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3. Vision and Mission
Vision: Vision is to connect the school system to the needs of the STEM industries, so that teachers can help increase the pipeline of STEM students into our universities. “Catch Them Young”
Mission: Mission is to do projects that gives the students the hands on experience to spur their curiosity and enthusiasm and at the same time create IEEE awareness in the Central Texas Schools for STEM( Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)

4. K-12 Projects – Current and Potential
Science In A Box - partnering with Round Rock Independent School District’s Partners In Education (PIE)
Make the World a Better Place – partnering with Dripping Springs ISD
Future City – partnering with University of Texas
Discover Engineering
BEST Robotics

5. Budget & Expense Budget for 2016 - $1200
Expense for Science In A Box - $500/-

6. Science-In-A-Box: Current Status
Completed the kick-off – March 2016
Resumed the project activities in Aug 2016 as the teacher was travelling around the globe to fulfill her Texas Teacher of the Year duties for 2016
Working with IEEE to get the funds to the school to purchase kits – Estimated to complete Oct 2016
Rollout to start Nov 2016
Estimated pilot completion time March 2016

7. WHY Why are we doing an outreach?
Create awareness for IEEE regional activities
Target middle school and high school
They are Americas’ future workforce
Create curiosity and promote critical thinking at this impressionable age
Introduce real life applications of Science, Technology, Math early on
Potential shadowing/interning opportunities for high-school students in the industry

8. WHAT Science-In-Box. Science is all around us and not just in labs
Create one science box
Box will have all the supplies, instructions and higher level questions needed to understand that concept
Boxes will be cataloged by the library so that they can be checked out by the students
Student checks kit out for a week and conducts the experiment at home
Supplies are replenished to make it ready for check out again

9. Send questions to hemaramaswamy@yahoo.com
Austin, TX
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