Bringing Engineering to Tangelo Park

桥梁工程教育规划补助金是中央弗洛伊达工程学院和教育学院大学与坦格罗公园社区之间的独特伙伴关系。 它为坦格罗公园的儿童提供了具有高经济潜力的新的高科技职业机会。 此外，它增加了这些孩子将利用有保证的坦格罗公园计划大学奖学金的可能性，它建立在坦格罗公园对改善和成长的承诺之上。 该项目的目标是提高整个社会对高科技职业机会的理解，并确保学生拥有在中学后定量教育计划中取得成功所需的技能和知识。 规划项目的具体目标是：（1）评估社区让学生参与定量领域的能力，（2）应用众所周知的教学原则，改善为坦格罗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，以及（4）为一个项目制定一个全面的实施计划，以增加少数民族学生在工程和其他定量领域的参与和成功。 与坦格罗公园项目的其他方面一样，该方案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节所述的目标，设想了四项任务。 这些将包括（1）学校，学生和社区的基线评估，（2）学前班，小学，初中，高中和社区的数学和科学试点活动的设计，（3）试点计划的实施和评估，以及（4）计划实施计划的制定。 该项目的预期成果是在进入工程和相关领域，在这些职业的Tangelo公园的认识水平的文件，以及可以在任何地方类似的社区使用的实施计划准备充分的Tangelo公园学生的数量增加。

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.