K-12 Workforce Development/Outreach,The Citadel (YR1)

Each year, the Citadel department of civil and environmental engineering coordinates with the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Lowcountry Branch, the Girls Scouts of Eastern South Carolina, the Lowcountry STEM collaborative, and local elementary schools to excite K-12 students about engineering. This project will focus on incorporating hands-on activities and educational material to introduce kids to transportation engineering at three major events: “Introduce a girl to engineering”; “STEM festival”, and “Leadership Day at Spann Elementary”. Overall, those three event will reach out to and inform more than 1000 kids about the world of transportation engineering through hands-on activities. Such events make kids view transportation engineering as a possible future career.

• Record URL:
  https://stride.ce.ufl.edu/workforce-development/stride-2016-workforce-development/
• Record URL:
  https://stride.ce.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/STRIDE-K-12-Citadel-Final-Report.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This is Part 1 of a 2 year project. The final report covers both Part 1 and Part 2 of K-12 activities at The Citadel funded by STRIDE and was completed May 31, 2019.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $2980
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747104

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development and Education Center (STRIDE)

  University of Florida
  365 Weil Hall
  Gainesville, FL  United States  32611
• Project Managers:

  Tucker-Thomas, Dawn

• Performing Organizations:

  The Citadel

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  171 Moultrie Street
  Charleston, SC  United States  29409
• Principal Investigators:

  Michalaka, Dimitra

• Start Date: 20170401
• Expected Completion Date: 20180331
• Actual Completion Date: 20190531
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Education; Engineering; Leadership; Outreach; School children; Transportation careers; Workforce
• Identifier Terms: Science, Techology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
• Geographic Terms: Alabama
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01733211
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development and Education Center (STRIDE)
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747104
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Mar 9 2020 4:08PM