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Educators

Summer Challenge for

Educators

"Engineering Challenge for

21st Century Skills"

July 11-15, 2010

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.

The Summer Engineering Challenge for the 21st Century Teachers 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 the Water, and 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.

The Engineering Challenge for the 21st Century is designed and administered by the Birch Group, LLC.