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Teachers Engineering Challenge for the 21st Century Workshop

July 10-15, 2011, US Coast Guard Academy

Dedicated high school and community college educators, both statewide and nationally, recently spent part of their summer vacation at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT for a five-day program designed to train them to help their students become qualified and productive engineers and technologists. (Click here for more pictures)

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The Summer Teachers Engineering Challenge for the 21st Century Workshop is a partnership between the RCNGM and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. The program stresses project-based learning, teamwork, technical communication, organizational and interpersonal skills (including understanding behavior styles using DISC profiles) and personal accountability. Projects that teachers participated in included Robotics on Water and the building and racing a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle.

The program is designed to help educators prepare their students for careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), through a series of engineering projects and exercises designed to give the participants a greater understanding of work styles and teamwork.

Curriculum From the Teachers Engineering Challenge

2010

Bottle Rockets

Space Exploration (Szydlowski)

Bottle Rocket Launch (Wyatt)

Newtons Third Law and Displacement (Bullard)

DISC Behavioral Profiling

Behavioral Characteristics and Their Influence On Lab Group Interactions and Productivity (Norcia)

Introduction to logic gates as part of a unit on electronics in high school physics (McQuarrie)

Using a Behavioral Profile to Develop Teamwork (Smelser)

Robotics on Water

Bouyancy (Stout)

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars