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Start a Club!
Plant seeds to start changing the world.
This is a great opportunity to pilot Technovation Girls at one site, or if you have an existing group/club of interested students looking to get ahead.
You’ll spend 2-3 or more hours per week over the course of each 5-6 month program on
Start a Chapter!
Lead change in your community.
This is a great opportunity if you are part of an organization that works with multiple sites and has experience leading youth, family, and/or STEM programs, or wants to start offering them.
You’ll spend 5 or more hours per week over the course of each 5-6 month program on
Responsibilities can be shared between multiple people per organization. *Stipends available for chapters!
Technovation provides training, program curriculum, mentor recruitment support (for STEM Next chapters, mentor matching might be possible), marketing collateral, mini-grant opportunities, monthly chapter ambassador networking opportunities
Chapter Benefits
Technovation will connect each interested Chapter in the USA with a select international chapter. This is an opportunity for program leaders to be able to connect internationally and share experiences.
Additionally, we will provide a stipend to support chapters in: Detroit-Michigan, Bay Area-California, New York Metro Area, Pittsburgh, Northern & Central Texas, and possibly others!
Help your students meet other students like them from around the world and expand their view of the world while solving problems through technology.
Open the world to your students!
Icebreaker
Welcome (back), Educators!
Session #2 of a 3-part series
With Technovation program staff Nick Luu, Mackenzie Dancho, and Kate Fauteux
Please say hello in the chat!
Objectives for today
🌟 EDP Experts 🌟
You’ll get creative with integrating the engineering design process creatively into each design challenge
🧘 Reflect and Recharge 🧘
You’ll reflect and come away from the session with new ideas and approaches to try from peers and the session activities
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Write and reflect
3 minutes: Add your reflections about how your DC experiences have gone so far to the padlet. (https://technovation.padlet.org/hello900/reflectwrite)
Then we’ll take turns sharing some thoughts aloud.
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Engineering Design Process (EDP)
Engineering Design Process (EDP)
INSPIRATION: Define the problem
PLAN: Create solutions, select one and draw a design
BUILD: Execute the prototype
TEST: Observe and measure the prototype’s performance
REDESIGN: Identify a problem to solve with a new design
REFLECT: Share experience and ways to use new knowledge to solve future problems
EDP Tool for Students
EDP Activity
What ideas do you have about how to incorporate that step into your sessions?
What would be some challenges (especially with online engagement) and how can we overcome?
When asking questions: Types of Questions
Leading Questions | Hint the answer you want to hear | Pro: Good for when you want a specific response Con: Don’t measure understanding |
Closed Questions | Can usually be answered with one word | Pro: Good for finding facts Con: Do not develop creativity or conversation |
Open-Ended Questions | Have unlimited possible responses | Pro: Develop critical thinking skills and creativity Con: Can be too difficult to answer if child does not have enough background knowledge |
Open-Ended Science Q Starters
Remember that giving wait time is important! And these are difficult questions, it’s not always appropriate to start with questions that are this open.
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Self Deploying Device
Challenge: Build a device that opens up when thrown in the air.
Inspiration video
test build Time
Plan
Take time to sketch or write out your ideas. Remember the challenge? Build a device that opens up when thrown in the air.
Build, Test, & Redesign
Start building! Make any changes you need to improve as you test your design. Share out!
Redesign Tips
How to make it simpler:
How to make it more challenging:
Reflect & share your Devices
Sharing
Check out other groups’ plans or creations. What worked? What didn’t? Did anything surprise you?
Processing
Share your experiences with the EDP. Is there anything you would have liked to spend more time on? Were you able to ask one another strong questions?
Applying
How will you lead with your students?
Training Agenda
Your Assignment:
Try using the EDP planner and lead 1-2 design challenges like Self Deploying Device with your kids before next session (Thursday, Dec 10).
Exit ticket
appendix
Think ahead about strategies you’d recommend if...
Students are stuck in their plan
Students are intimidated to start building
Students ask you a question specific to a concept that you don’t have an answer to
Students get stuck and discouraged
When things get hard
Situation | Growth Mindset Example | Fixed Mindset Example |
Not getting the expected outcome | What am I missing? How can I make this work? | Mine isn’t good. I failed, so I’m giving up. |
Getting an expected outcome | I’m on the right track. | I’m incredible at this. |
Trying something new | My mistakes help me learn. | I hate messing up. |
Completing a project | What can I do to make it better? | My work won’t get better than this. |
With difficult tasks | This could take me ___ minutes. | This is very difficult. |
Seeing others’ successes | I’m going to learn how she’s doing it! | She’s so good at that. |