期刊名称：Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association
出版年度：2015
出版社：The Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA)
摘要：Attracting high-school students to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) should be easy today, but it is not in practice. Universities and organizations such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) have invested much effort and implemented many useful mechanisms to increase the enrollment, including open house events, teaching teachers days, IEEE’s Teachers In Service Program (TISP), IEEE’s Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS), as well as IEEE’s TryEngineering, TryComputing, and TryNano. We have developed a number of new initiatives to address the problem in Manitoba, and feel that the approach can be used elsewhere. This paper describes two such initiatives: a space camp for high-school students grade 9 to 11, and the Verna Kirkness Program (VKP) discovery camp for Indigenous high-school students. The first camp was offered several times already, while the second camp was delivered for the first time in 2013.
