mathematics) curriculum more available to urban middle-school students – Project Still I Rise (PSIR) initiated an Urban S.T.E.M. held at the University of Texas at Dallas. The Urban S.T.E.M. camp gave 15 male middle school participants an opportunity to experience college life, be exposed to S.T.E.M. based professionals and receive education and instruction on advanced math principals. Students also participated in a math skills competition and an engineering design competition based on renewable energy. Project Still I Rise would like to thank the following guest company employee presenters Terrence Southern of Frito-Lay, Desmond Blair University of Texas at Dallas, Reggie Bush of Rocwell Collins, Rochelle Dillon of Raytheon and Matthew Fisher the Founder and CTO of KumoTek Robotics.
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PSIR URBAN STEM CAMP
Sunday, August 14, 2011
As a continuation of the effort to make S.T.E.M. (science, technology, engineering, andmathematics) curriculum more available to urban middle-school students – Project Still I Rise (PSIR) initiated an Urban S.T.E.M. held at the University of Texas at Dallas. The Urban S.T.E.M. camp gave 15 male middle school participants an opportunity to experience college life, be exposed to S.T.E.M. based professionals and receive education and instruction on advanced math principals. Students also participated in a math skills competition and an engineering design competition based on renewable energy. Project Still I Rise would like to thank the following guest company employee presenters Terrence Southern of Frito-Lay, Desmond Blair University of Texas at Dallas, Reggie Bush of Rocwell Collins, Rochelle Dillon of Raytheon and Matthew Fisher the Founder and CTO of KumoTek Robotics.
mathematics) curriculum more available to urban middle-school students – Project Still I Rise (PSIR) initiated an Urban S.T.E.M. held at the University of Texas at Dallas. The Urban S.T.E.M. camp gave 15 male middle school participants an opportunity to experience college life, be exposed to S.T.E.M. based professionals and receive education and instruction on advanced math principals. Students also participated in a math skills competition and an engineering design competition based on renewable energy. Project Still I Rise would like to thank the following guest company employee presenters Terrence Southern of Frito-Lay, Desmond Blair University of Texas at Dallas, Reggie Bush of Rocwell Collins, Rochelle Dillon of Raytheon and Matthew Fisher the Founder and CTO of KumoTek Robotics.
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