STEM/K-12 Outreach Region I STEM K-12 Outreach Committee Meeting AIAA ASM 2013, Grapevine, Texas Wed., 9 January 2013, 08:00-16:00

Some section activity examples since last RAC report: Delaware STEM & Beyond Night at local high school –Audience: private homeschooled students, 4 th – 6 th grades; 40 students –Delaware submitted report in proposed new PPT format. Hampton Roads VTATE - Atmospheric Teaching Experiment at Virginia Tech continues after startup partially funded by AIAA in 2011 STEM outreach program at VT works with elementary and middle school students/school year Standards-based curricula are posted on VT AIAA Student section website Niagara Frontier Continued support of Young Astronaut Council at Mill Middle School; students are assembling a hydraulic arm kit Mid-Atlantic Training for upcoming Engineering Challenges (paper plane + electric cargo) for interested educators AIAA Educator Academy: Working on How to Run a Capstone Event focused on Electric Cargo Challenge Investigating encouraging local high school students to get Student Membership 2 Highlights/Issues

4 Some Existing Partnerships: Government (NASA, FAA, Young Astronaut Council, Other Professional Associations (ASME, AHS, SAMPE, Engineering Society of Baltimore, Civil Air Patrol, Vibration Institute Team Programs (FIRST LEGO League, Maryland MESA, First Robotics, Industry (Lockheed Martin, Boeing, GE, Schools + Universities (JHU/APL, NIA, local K-12 schools, Museums (Franklin Institute, NAUTICUS, Baltimore Museum of Industry, New England Air Museum Future: Investigate as additional K-12 activity repositorywww.howtosmile.org Investigate posting PBS Curious George rocket activity on AIAA Kids Place Continue to find models of successful sections and pass them to those which are less active or dormant Help grow the Educator Teacher Academy, Engineers as Educator programs

5 Carolyn Slivinski Deputy Director Region I STEM/K-12 Space Telescope Science Institute 3700 San Martin Dr. Baltimore, MD Telephone: (410) (cell)