Planning & Hosting STEM Outreach

Events for Female Students

Michelle Bunn, M.A.Affiliate Director

San Diego State University

Michael GoodbodySecondary Science Resource Teacher

San Diego Unified

Today’s Presentation will cover…

• Importance of gender-specific outreach

events

• Recruitment of Target Audience

• Importance of Parent Involvement

• Event Organizers & Volunteers

• Costs (Sample Expenses)

• Sample Event Formats

Importance of Gender Specific

Outreach Events

• ~18-20% female engineers/engineering

students

• A lot of STEM outreach events often draw

attention and interest to just boys

• Need to create MORE awareness of the

opportunities available

• Provide female role models and mentors

Target Audience

• Middle School, High School

– More feasible*

• Parents/Teachers

• *Can even expand to elementary

• Recruitment for middle schools

Importance of Parent Workshops

• Don’t have to be in the STEM fields in

order for child to succeed

• Give parents additional resources

• Continue the conversation at home

• Increase parents’ involvement in their

child’s interests

– More likely to find more resources and events

to enhance child’s skills & career goals

Event Organizers

• Who can organize an event?

– Middle School

– High School

– PLTW Affiliates/Colleges

– Student Organizations

– Local industries

– Local nonprofit organizations

Volunteers

• Volunteers (who to recruit to help run the

events)

• Who can volunteer to help run events

and/or activities?

– PLTW students & teachers

– Student organizations (i.e. SWE, ASME,

ASCE, IEEE, EWB, SHPE, PASE, NSBE)

– PLTW Affiliates

– Local industries & nonprofits

Involving Industry

• Use your resources

– PLTW Partnership Team at your school

– Friends

– Family members

– Emailing/inviting local industries

San Diego Unified School District

• Michael Goodbody

– Secondary Science Resource Teacher

• Former PLTW teacher

– @sd_stem

• Unlocking the Genius Initiative

Building Partnerships

Example: Involving Qualcomm for

Girls Coding Camp

Sample Events, Schedules & Costs

• Girls Coding Camp & Girls Day Out

• Event Schedules

• Cost Breakdown

– Half-day vs. Whole Day events

– Meals (breakfast, snacks, lunch, etc.)

– Room/site cost (including parking)

– Activities (supplies)

– Prizes

Girls Coding Camp [MS]

• 2-day summer coding camp

• Held at Qualcomm’s Thinkabit Lab

• Incoming 7th and 8th grade girls

• $25 registration fee

Structure of Girls Coding Camp

• All-girl environment

– Attendees are female students

• (incoming 7th-8th graders)

– Female mentors and instructor

• Snacks and lunch provided

• Parents drop-off/pick-up students

Structure of Girls Coding Camp

• Students work in teams of 2

• Gallery Walk

• 2-day camp (covered Scratch, Arduinos)

Sample Girls Coding Camp

Schedule• Session 1, Day 1: • Lesson 1: Introduction to Programming

• 1.1 Game Coding: Getting Started

• 1.2 Game Coding: Character Movement

• 1.3 Game Coding: Visual Design

• 1.4 Game Coding: Graphics and Sound

• 1.5 Game Coding: Your Turn & Gallery Walk

• Lesson 2: Programming

• 2.1 Animation: Getting Started

• 2.2 Animation: Dialogue

• 2.3 Animation: Moving Characters

• 2.4 Animation: Backdrops and Broadcast

• 2.5 Animation: Your Turn

• 2.6 Animation: Your Own Story & Gallery Walk

• Session 1, Day 2: • Lesson 3: Mobile Apps

• 3.1 Mobile Apps: Getting Started

• 3.2 Mobile Apps: Accelerometer

• 3.3 Mobile Apps: Game!

• 3.4 Mobile Apps: Drawing App

• 3.5 Mobile Apps: Gallery Walk

• Lesson 4: Arduino

• 4.1 Arduino: Circuits

• 4.2 Arduino: Blink

• 4.3 Arduino: LED

• 4.4 Arduino: Push Buttons

• 4.5 Arduino: Gallery Walk

Sample Expenses - Girls Coding Camps

• 30 girls per session (2 two-day sessions total)– Charge $25 registration fee (+$1,500)

– Snacks & water for students & volunteers (-$340)

– Lunch for both sessions – 4 days total (-$1000)• Cheaper alternatives available; we used Qualcomm’s

preferred catering services

– Supplies ($0)• Qualcomm provided supplies and equipment

– Site/Room Rentals ($0)• Qualcomm provided site

– Instructor Stipend (varies)

– Mentors (varies)

– Name Badges, Certificates (-$30)

Girls Day Out (MS/HS)

• Fall: High School

• Spring: Middle School

• Parent & Student workshops

• Held at SDSU

Structure of HS vs MS GDO

• High School

– SWE Collegiate

Chapter involvement

– Local industry

partners also host

activities

– Q&A Panel

– Parent Workshops

– Parent Activity

• Middle School

– SWE Collegiate

Chapter involvement

– Other student

organizations host

activities

– Parent Workshops

– Parent Activity

Sample #1 GDO MS Schedule (Morning)

EVERYONE

8:30-8:50am: General Welcome and SDSU’s SWE Society of Women Engineers Presentation, Raffles (IT101A)

8:50-8:55am: Break/Students Meet Their Group Leaders

STUDENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS8:55-9:15am: Workshop Station #19:20-9:45am: Workshop Station #29:50-10:05am: Snack Break [IT101A]10:10-10:35am: Workshop Station #310:40-11:05am: Workshop Station #4

PARENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS8:55-9:15am: Engineering Activity9:20-9:45am: PLTW Scholarships, Preferred Admissions Program & More!9:50-10:05am: Snack Break [IT101A]10:10-11:05am: Ways to get your Daughters involved in STEM in San Diego (including SD Festival of Science & Engineering, Microsoft, MESA Program)

EVERYONE11:10-11:30am: Closing/Awards/Raffles [IT 101A]

EVERYONE

1pm-1:20pm: General Welcome and SDSU’s SWE Society of Women Engineers Presentation (Student Union Center, room 231)

8:50-8:55am: Break/Students Meet Their Group Leaders

STUDENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS1:25-1:50pm: Workshop Station #11:55-2:20pm: Workshop Station #22:20-2:35pm: Snack Break2:40-3:05pm: Workshop Station #33:10-3:35pm: Workshop Station #4

PARENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS1:25-1:50pm : Engineering Activity1:55-2:20pm : PLTW Scholarships, Preferred Admissions Program & More!2:20-2:35pm: Snack Break2:40-3:35pm: Ways to get your Daughters involved in STEM in San Diego (including SD Festival of Science & Engineering, Microsoft, MESA Program)

EVERYONE3:35-4:00pm: Closing/Awards/Raffles [Student Union Center, Room 231]

Sample #2 GDO MS Schedule (Afternoon)

EVERYONE

10:10-10:45am: Student & Professional Women Q&A Panel (IT101A)

10:45-10:55am: Break/Students Meet Their Group Leaders

STUDENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS11:00-11:25am: Workshop Station #111:30-11:55am: Workshop Station #211:55-12:25pm: Lunch [IT101A]12:25-12:50pm: Workshop Station #312:55-1:20pm: Workshop Station #4

PARENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS11:00-11:25am: Engineering Activity11:30-11:55am: PLTW Scholarships, Preferred Admissions Program & More!11:55-12:25pm: Lunch [IT101A]12:25-1:20pm: Ways to get your Daughters involved in STEM in San Diego (Microsoft, SD Festival of Science & Engineering, MESA Engineering Program, & more)

EVERYONE1:25-1:40pm: Society of Women Engineers Presentation [IT101A]1:45-2pm: Closing/Awards/Raffles [IT 101A]

Sample #1 GDO HS Schedule

(Morning/Afternoon)

Sample #2 GDO HS Schedule (Afternoon)

EVERYONE

12:55-1:30pm: Student & Professional Women Q&A Panel (Templo Mayor)

1:30-1:40pm: Break/Students Meet Their Group Leaders

STUDENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS1:45-2:10pm: Workshop Station #12:15-2:40pm: Workshop Station #22:40-2:55pm: Break (Templo Mayor)

3:00-3:25pm: Workshop Station #33:30-3:55pm: Workshop Station #4

PARENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS1:45-2:10pm: Engineering Activity2:15-2:40pm: PLTW Scholarships, Preferred Admissions Program & More!2:40-2:55pm: Break (Templo Mayor)

3:00-3:55pm: Ways to get your Daughters involved in STEM in San Diego (MESA Engineering Program, Microsoft, SD Festival of Science & Engineering)

EVERYONE4:00-4:15pm: Society of Women Engineers Presentation [Templo Mayor]4:15-4:30pm: Closing/Awards/Raffles [Templo Mayor]

Sample Expenses - Girls Day Out

• 50 girls & 1 parent/chaperone per girl

– Charge $10 registration fee (+$500*)

– Snacks for students, parents, volunteers (-$150)

– Supplies for 4 table activities (-$100)• If you have student organizations and local industries participate,

you can have them provide their own activities & supplies)

– Site/Room Rentals & Parking (-$100-$400)• Student organizations might get free or discounted rooms at their

college; local industries might offer their site for free; middle schools/high schools offer free rooms if it’s cohosted by teacher

– Raffle Prizes (-$100-$300)• You can have student organizations and local industries donate

shirts and giveaways to cut costs. If you have a grant providing $, can spend more on prizes)

– Name Badges, Certificates (-$50)

GDO Student Bags

What else is available?

• Other examples in PLTW CA Network• WOW! That’s Engineering

– Can apply for grants through Society of Women Engineers (SWE) National’s Program Development Grants at swe.org.

– Similar to Girls Day Out

• Women in Engineering – SJSU– Provides information, educational events, and resources to

give an accurate understanding of the impact engineers can make on the challenges facing humanity

• http://engineering.sjsu.edu/students/current/student-programs/wie

– Femineers (presentation on Wednesday)

Perry Initiative

• For female students interested in bioengineering and biomedical science fields

• PLTW Students receive priority

• Held at a hospital or university’s medical lab

• FREE

• Only available in select cities

• Application through Perry Initiative website

• http://perryinitiative.org/programs/outreach-program/

VISIT THEIR TABLE DURING THE CONFERENCE!

Michelle Bunn, M.A.

Affiliate Director

San Diego State University

mbunn@mail.sdsu.edu

@MichelleMJBunn