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Connecting Real-World Skills to Career Roles
Dagen connects the skills youth use with the career role they selected during the challenge.
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Watching for Best Practices
Participants will compare a fact sheet with videos in Keeping Youth Interacting to see how facilitators encourage youth to collaborate
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Easy as a Pickle Sandwich
Participants will design a sandwich “protector” to learn how engineers use multiple practices to design solutions.
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Connecting to Prior Knowledge with an Idea Walk
Participants will do an idea walk in order to add more opportunities for youth to connect their prior knowledge to STEM activities.
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Design and Test
Participants will use “What-If” cards in order to help youth engage in engineering design practices like using criteria and constraints, facing a failed test, and redesign.
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Confronting My Own Biases
Participants will take a Project Implicit test in order to reflect on the needs of nondominant youth in their program.
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Bringing in the Experts
Facilitators of STEM activities can help youth connect to STEM careers by providing opportunities to introduce STEM professionals to youth.
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Trying out Career Roles
Watch as staff members Katie and Molly make connections to a variety of STEM Careers throughout the selected activity and explore strategies for strengthening your own practice in this area.
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Making Learning Fun
Youth look to you as an example of what they should do and how they should look at the world. Do you use the engineering practices and share your thought processes and reflections? Not sure how? Learn ways to model the engineering processes in your daily work.