Challenge Forum for Technology Education

该项目正在支持HI-TEC国家会议和会议期间的技术教育特别论坛（http：//www.highimpact-tec.org/）。该论坛的重点是确定关键问题和技术教育的挑战。重要的是，这个高度互动的论坛旨在为NSF和其他利益相关者提供必要的反馈，以帮助制定应对已确定的国家和全球挑战的举措。该论坛预计将吸引来自社区大学教育工作者，技术人员和行业人员的多达100名参与者进行坦率的讨论，旨在突出现代技术教育面临的挑战和优先事项。这两个互动工具，以民意调查和参与观众和促进重点小组正在被用来确定实用的知识，信息和经验，以及确定先进的技术教育的指导方针和优先事项。载有建议的最后报告正在发表。该活动通过吸引STEM和劳动力教育的新选民，显着扩大了ATE计划的影响。该项目的一个具体目标是让学生参加会议，以扩大他们的经验。这次会议，比任何其他单一的事件，是一个亮点，并展示了基金会的长期努力和倡议，以支持在社区学院的技术教育。

This project is supporting the HI-TEC national conference and a special forum on technology education within the conference (http://www.highimpact-tec.org/). The forum focuses on the identification of critical issues and the challenges of technology education. Importantly this highly interactive forum is designed to provide necessary feedback to the NSF and other stakeholders to help shape initiatives in response to identified national and global challenges. The forum is expected to engage up to 100 participants from the ranks of community college educators, technicians, and industry personnel in a frank discussion designed to highlight challenges and priorities faced by modern technology education. Both interactive tools to poll and engage the audience and facilitated focus groups are being used to identify practical knowledge, information, and experiences as well as identify guidelines and priorities for advanced technological education. A final report containing recommendations is being published. This event significantly broadens the impact of the ATE program by engaging new constituencies in STEM and workforce education. One specific objective of this project is bringing students to the conference to broaden their experience. This conference, more than any other single event, is a highlight and showcase for the Foundation's long-standing efforts and initiatives to support technician education at community colleges.