SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS INITIATIVE (STEMi) Mission Statement

Benefits are derived at all levels of participation in the STEMi effort. WID TVC benefits by supporting WID national objectives, supporting the local community, and providing the means by which middle school and high school students can receive tools that further their interest in pursuing technical careers. The middle school and high school teachers benefit by receiving tools that they would not ordinarily have funding in their school budgets to cover. The college and university teachers benefit by receiving ideas for projects that can be utilized as part of their class curriculum in their engineering design classes. The college/ university students benefit through the building of these tools and the presentations they must make in the scheduled reviews by improving their technical writing skills, public speaking abilities, experience with geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, and ethical decision making.

STEMi SCHEDULE

EVENT	TIMEFRAME	RESPONSIBLE PARTY
Send out notice of interest in STEMi participation to TVC area middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities	8 weeks prior to start of college semester	WID
Select school participants at both levels and notify them of their acceptance into the program	6 weeks prior to start of college semester	WID
Meet with selected lower level school participants to explain program details and receive project ideas	5 weeks prior to start of college semester	WID / middle school and/or high school science teachers
Select viable candidate projects and determine number of projects that will be funded	4 weeks prior to start of college semester	WID
Meet with potential sponsors to gain sponsorship commitments and receive funding	3 weeks prior to start of college semester	WID
Meet with selected upper level school participants to present them with candidate projects list	2 weeks prior to start of college semester	WID / college and/or university engineering design teachers
Present candidate projects list to engineering design students	1^st day of engineering design class	College and/or engineering design teachers
Project selections completed	1^st week of engineering design class	Engineering design students
Funding delivered to project participants per school policy and procedures	2^nd week of engineering design class	WID
System Requirements Review	2^nd week of engineering design class	WID / middle school and/or high school science teachers / college and/or university engineering design teachers / engineering design students

WID TVC STEMi Article for WID National Newsletter (24 June 2010)