Virginia Demonstration Project Encouraging Middle School Students in Pursuing STEM Careers

[摘要] Encouraging students at all grade levels to consider pursuing a career in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields i s a national focus. In 2005, the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD), a Department of Defense laboratory located in Da hlgren, Virginia, began work on the Virginia Demonstration Project (VDP) with the goal of increasing more student interest in STEM educatio n and pursuing STEM careers. This goal continues as the program enters its sixth year. This project has been successful through the partici pation of NSWCDD's scientists and engineers who are trained as mentor s to work in local middle school classrooms throughout the school year, As an extension of the in-class activities, several STEM summer aca demies have been conducted at NSWCDD, These academies are supported by the Navy through the VDP and the STEM Learning Module Project. Theseprojects are part of more extensive outreach efforts offered by the National Defense Education Program (NDEP), sponsored by the Director,Defense Research and Engineering. The focus of this paper is on the types of activities conducted at the summer academy, an overview of theacademy planning process, and recommendations to help support a nati onal plan of integrating modeling and simulation-based engineering and science into all grade levels. based upon the lessons learned

[发布日期] 2011-03-01

[学科分类] 数学（综合）