STEM Outreach: Advice and Experiences

It feels imperative to write a post about how I feel about teaching and how I first started working for DECtech. First, I want to say...

Instead of beginning with potential ways in which the DECtech program can be improved, I’d first like to highlight the components that...

While the percentage of women in STEM has increased in some areas, in others the increases continue at an incredibly slow rate or even...

After DECtech wrapped up for the semester, the Instructors and Teaching Assistants met to offer feedback to improve future lessons. While...

As someone who has been attending school mostly virtually for the past year now, I am biased towards thinking that in person learning is...

In 2018, only 20% of the students earning Bachelor's Degrees in Computer Science were women (Partovi & Hendrickson, 2020). However, the...

While STEM jobs are some of the most lucrative and in demand career options, there continues to be an alarmingly low percentage of women...

While helping out with an AP Computer Science class last week, the teacher asked students who are continuing with online learning to...

DECtech has been piloting a new idea of involvement this semester where students who already stay after school join our sessions...

The Jigsaw Method is a way of teaching that splits up a topic into subcategories that are then researched by different groups of...

With math as the set topic for the third week of DECtech, our activity included the strenuous task of teaching 3rd and 4th graders how to...

Monday's outreach event consisted of a visit to a High School coding club. After corresponding continuously back and forth with one of...

Today I volunteered with a SWE run event called Girls Lead the Way (GLTW). SWE stands for Society of Women Engineers and Mines boasts...

Today was the first day I was officially helping out with the AP Computer Science class. I'll continue to help out weekly on Wednesdays,...

My next outreach activity was a volunteer event for a club on campus called the Association for Computing Machinery - Women (ACM-W). For...

For week 2 of DECtech, the topic was Physics. The activity was creating boats out of aluminum foil. Since I was the one who planned this...

My next outreach experience was visiting a high school AP Computer Science class. In the future, I'll be visiting the class weekly to...

My next outreach event was a complete change of pace from teaching elementary school students. I answered questions at JeffCon's Q+A. The...

My first outreach event of the year was teaching a class through a STEM outreach program for girls out of Colorado School of Mines called...