Bringing Engineering to Tangelo Park

工程教育规划之桥是中佛罗里达大学工程学院和教育学院以及坦吉洛公园社区之间的独特合作伙伴关系。它为坦吉洛公园的孩子们提供了具有高经济潜力的高科技职业机会。此外，它增加了这些孩子利用保证的坦吉洛公园计划大学奖学金的可能性，它建立在坦吉洛公园的基础上。S对改进和增长的承诺。该项目的目标是增加整个社区对高科技职业机会的了解，并确保他们的学生拥有在中学后定量教育项目中取得成功所需的技能和知识。规划项目的具体目标是：(1)评估社区在定量领域吸引学生的能力，(2)应用众所周知的教学原则来改善为坦吉洛公园学生服务的学校的数学和科学课程，(3)向工程教育工作者广泛传播项目成果，(4)为一个项目制定一个全面的实施计划，该计划将导致少数民族学生在工程和其他定量领域的更多参与和成功。与Tangelo公园项目的其他方面一样，该项目可推广到全国各地的类似社区，从而为经济发展和社区改善提供类似的机会。为了实现第2节中描述的目标，设想了四项任务。这些将包括(1)对学校、学生和社区的基线评估，(2)为学前班、小学、初中、高中和社区设计数学和科学试点活动，(3)试点项目的实施和评估，以及(4)制定项目实施计划。该项目的预期结果是，准备充分的Tangelo Park学生进入工程和相关领域的人数有所增加，记录了Tangelo Park对这些职业的认识水平，并制定了可在任何类似社区使用的实施计划。

The Bridges for Engineering Education Planning grant is a unique partnership between the University of Central Floida College of Engineering and College of Education and the Tangelo Park Community. It provides the Tangelo Park children with new high-tech career opportunities with high economic potential. Further it increases the probability that these children will take advantage of guaranteed Tangelo Park Program college scholarships, and it builds on Tangelo Park.s commitment to improvement and growth. The goals of this project are to increase the understanding of the entire community about high-tech career opportunities, and to ensure that their students have the skills and knowledge needed to succeed in post-secondary quantitative education programs. Specific objectives of the planning project are to (1) evaluate the ability of the community to engage students in quantitative fields, (2) apply well-known pedagogical principles to improve the math and science curriculum in schools serving Tangelo Park students, (3) broadly disseminate results of the project to engineering educators, and (4) develop a full-scale implementation plan for a program that would lead to increased participation and success of minority students in engineering and other quantitative fields. As with other aspects of the Tangelo Park project, this program is translatable to similar communities throughout the country resulting in similar opportunities for economic development and community improvement. To meet the objectives described in Section 2, four tasks are envisioned. These will include (1) a baseline assessment of schools, students, and the community, (2) design of math and science pilot activities for preK, elementary, middle school, high school, and the community, (3) implementation and assessment of the pilot programs, and (4) development of a program implementation plan. Expected outcomes of this project are an increase in the number of well prepared Tangelo Park students entering engineering and related fields, documentation of the level of awareness in Tangelo Park of these careers, and a plan for implementation that can be used at similar communities anywhere.