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Growing Life Skills and an Engineering Mindset
March 8, 2024
The MN 4-H Engineering Design challenge is growing life skills and an engineering mindset.
April 2, 2024 Conversation with Christine Cunningham about Youth Engineering Solutions
February 21, 2024
Register now to join this virtual workshop on April 2 to learn how authentic engineering experiences motivate and engage youth in developing an engineering mindset.
Family-Focused Engineering: Harnessing Early Childhood Potential
August 14, 2023
TERC and the University of Notre Dame will share ready-to-use activities and resources in multiple languages (Spanish, English, and Arabic), and more!
Discovering Engineering with Young Children
August 14, 2023
Discover engineering with preschool age children and meet Dr. Amy Napoli from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her work focuses on supporting parents and childcare providers in developing high-quality learning environments for young children.
Equity-oriented Engineering
July 21, 2023
Discussion of equity-oriented engineering experiences and how you can incorporate this focus into your own work.
Biomimicry – Nature-inspired Engineering
May 17, 2023
Biomimicry is the science of seeing nature as a model that inspires ideas to solve human problems.
Wee Engineer – Capturing Preschool Curiosity
January 20, 2023
Wee Engineer gets the wheels of critical thinking off to an early start by bringing engineering to preschoolers.
Informal Learning: Are the struggles worth it?
September 14, 2022
You can help learners persist through failure by learning to use “Yet” thinking
Unboxing Click2Engineering
July 25, 2022
Discover professional learning resources to help afterschool and other out-of-school-time educators learn more about engineering and to lead great engineering activities with youth.