STEM Outreach: Traditional vs Virtual Summer Programming

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Abstract

Discover how a college reworked its traditional face-to-face summer STEM outreach program to develop a virtual coding camp that helps middle and high school students enhance critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.

Keywords:

• Informal Education
• Crosscutting Concepts
• STEM
• Teaching Strategies
• Technology

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Notes on contributors

Francesca M. Mellieon-Williams

Francesca M. Mellieon-Williams ([email protected]) is an Associate Professor of Science/Mathematics Education Doctoral Program and Director of Science Summer Institute at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Nastassia N. Jones

Nastassia N. Jones is an Associate Professor of Science/Mathematics Education Doctoral Program at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Ingrid Cruz

Ingrid J. Cruz is a middle school STEM Integrations teacher at Oxon Hill Middle School in Fort Washington, Maryland, and a STEM Facilitator for the Engineering and Science Summer Institutes at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.