Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Camp Reach program is looking to upgrade its workshop curriculum and find ways to engage underrepresented minorities in the program. Our project, sponsored by Pre-collegiate Outreach Programs, was to design a multi-day workshop that utilizes WPI makerspace facilities to create a sophisticated engineering experience for 8th grade girls and is designed to promote inclusion. The finished product heavily integrated youth voice to deliver a workshop agenda, recommended makerspace, materials list, learning outcomes and recommendations for inclusivity.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Maltais, Marisa
• Hendry, Meghan C.
• Ungerer, A.
• Karapanco, Aleksia

Subject

• Inclusion
• Project-Based Learning
• Learning
• Innovation

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 5771
• E-project-031621-115927

Keyword

• STEM
• Camp Reach
• Girls in STEM
• Inclusion
• Middle School Education

Advisor

• Demetry, Chrysanthe

Year

• 2021

Sponsor

• WPI Office of Pre-collegiate Outreach

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 4 - Quality Education
• 5 - Gender Equality
• 10 - Reducing Inequality

Date created

• 2021-03-16

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-04-30