My Story
My attendance at the Summer STEM program at Saint Peter’s University is what sparked my interest in engineering. Each week introduced me to an innumerable amount of information that has ultimately inspired me to learn more. At the end of each week, we were to present to professors and interns. The program not only helped me gain more proficiency in outgoing scientific issues in society, but it helped me enhance my public speaking skills.
I have worked with younger kids years ago when I practiced Taekwondo. I held a strong passion for the sport and was able to share and impart it to others. Some of the children I taught continue to pursue Taekwondo today. I look to apply the skills I used then to enhance the process of this project.
My Project
I plan to use a formative teaching style that will engage students to develop an interest or admiration for everyday engineering. My team and I plan to create brief presentations on slides with visuals and to make lessons more engaging, I plan to incorporate visual analogies using objects.
Before commencing projects, I plan to give an introductory lesson on engineering and how it has and is continuing to help major issues in today’s society. These issues would be more specifically elaborated on in upcoming units.
With exposure through hand-on-experiences, students will develop the mindset of an engineer and learn how to implement the engineering design process to it. Students will work collaboratively on various projects and learn to build their ideas using one another's assistance. They will use the knowledge on basic mathematical, physical, and scientific properties in correlation with one another. Through these activities, students will notice how closely associated these subjects are.