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K-12 Student and Parents
The resources for students and
parents range from adult literacy programs to programs geared
toward elementary school through high school age students to
programs for gifted students, and many more. The target audience
for each of the resources below is specificed.
Baltimore
County Public Library literacy information for adults
Best Buddies Maryland College Program for individuals with mild
to moderate intellectual disabilities
Bits and Bytes IT Design Competition
for high school junior and senior women
Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture
for children and adults in the city and suburbs
Classic Upward Bound for
Baltimore County public high school students
Computer Mania Day for middle-school
students, parents and teachers
ENES 101 Introductory Engineering
Science Partnership for Eastern Technical High School students
Engineering Inquiry-Based Curricula
for Technology Education for female and minority students
Enhancing Science & Technology
Education & Exploration Mentoring (ESTEEM) for middle-school
students
Introducing Engineering Through
Mathematics for students throughout Maryland
Future Scientists and Engineers
of America (FSEA) for students in grades 4-12
Hispanic Apostolate for
Spanish-speaking individuals seeking to learn English
Hands On Science Outreach (HOSO)
for kindergarten through 5th grade students
Project Lead the Way (PLTW)
for middle and high school students
The Fieldtrip Project
for students, parents, families and communities
Worthwhile to Help High School
Youth (WORTHY) for inner-city high school sophomores and juniors
Young Engineers and Scientists
Seminars (YESS) for high school students gifted in engineering
and science
Visual Art Educational Outreach
Programming at CADVC for students throughout Maryland
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Baltimore County Public Library
http://www.bcplonline.org
Target Audience
Adults
About the Program
This program disseminates information on literacy programs, GED’s
and adult education classes as well as adult education materials.
BCPL also provides information on computer literacy.
The Program Will:
Program Duration
Monday-Thursday: 10 am – 9 pm
Friday and Saturday: 10 am – 5:30 pm
Sunday: 12 pm – 5 pm
Program Funding
Contact Person
Lynn Lockwood
410-887-6122
llockwoo@bcpl.net
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Best Buddies Maryland College Program
http://www.bestbuddies.org/maryland/index.asp
Target Audience
Individuals with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities and
those without disabilities who would like to share in a mutually
enriching friendship are eligible. Best Buddies matches volunteers
based on similar interests, geographic location, schedules and gender.
About the Program
Best Buddies is a non-profit organization whose mission is to
enhance the lives of people with intellectual disabilities by
providing opportunities for socialization and employment. The
basis of our program is to foster friendships between people
with intellectual disabilities and college students, middle
school students, high school students, and community members.
The Maryland office of Best Buddies International was established
in 1995 and offers Best Buddies Middle Schools, High Schools,
Colleges, Citizens and e-Buddies.
The Program Will:
1. Seek to break down the stereotypes that facilitate this social
isolation by establishing friendships between people with intellectual
disabilities and people without intellectual disabilities.
2. Build friendships that will help people with intellectual disabilities
learn invaluable social and life skills, which will allow them to
learn, grow and succeed in society.
Program Duration
Program Funding
The program is funded with the help of foundation and government
grants, special events and private and corporate donations.
Individual Best Buddies chapters are encouraged to hold fund-raisers,
sell Best Buddies merchandise, and obtain community support
to finance group outings.
Contact Person
Abby Neyenhouse
Maryland Colleges Program Manager
410-327-9812 ext. 25
AbbyNeyenhouse@bestbuddies.org
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Bits and Bytes IT Design Competition
Target Audience
High-achieving young women completing their junior or senior year
in a high school located in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan
area
About the Program
This overnight, UMBC-based program gives high-achieving young women
completing their final years of high school the opportunity to participate
in a design competition using specialized, computer-based software.
Students are able to explore real applications of computer-based
technology in the IT and computer science professions. Students
are also introduced to college life by attending an afternoon class
and meeting with representatives of the Information Technology and
Engineering departments.
The Program Will:
- Give students the opportunity to explore how computers
facilitate the design process in animation, engineering and
other areas of creative design.
- Allow students to interact with positive undergraduate
role models in the CWIT Scholars program.
- Give students the opportunity to meet with representatives
of the Information Technology and Engineering departments at UMBC.
- Introduce students to college life and the UMBC campus
community by allowing them to spend a weekend on the CWIT Scholars
living-learning residential floor and to attend an afternoon class
of their choice.
- Allow students to explore other applications of computer
technology by touring the Imaging Research Center.
Program Duration
Annually, during National Engineers Week
Program Funding
Contact Person
Amera Bilal
Director of University Initiatives
Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT)
410-455-8076
410-455-8931 fax
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Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture
http://www.umbc.edu/fineartsgallery
Target Audience
Children and adults in the city and suburbs
About the Program
Collaborate/partner with schools, museums and non-profit organizations
to produce innovative and effective programs for children and
adults in the city and suburbs.
The Program Will:
1. Bring children to UMBC to experience exhibitions at CADVC, and
to tour UMBC.
2. Exhibit student artwork in the Fine Arts Department Hallway
Gallery and The Commons.
3. Involve parents in programming and invite them to see their children
work in a university environment to encourage continued learning.
4. Show a wider audience creative ways to apply visual learning/arts
toward their lives.
5. Foster interdepartmental learning and healthy community at UMBC
and in Baltimore city.
Program Duration
Tues. through Sat. 10 am to 5 pm
Program Funding
UMBC Contact Person
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Classic Upward Bound
http://www.research.umbc.edu/~upbound/
Target Audience
High school students in grades 9-12, enrolled in Baltimore County
public schools, have academic need, and are willing to stay
in school and participate in all program activities. Students
must also satisfy the low-income criteria established by the
U.S. Department of Education and/or meet first-generation criteria
(parent(s) with whom applicant resides do not possess a baccalaureate
degree).
About the Program
The Classic Upward Bound Program serves as a supplement to the
high school experience. It provides the opportunity for each
student to improve or develop academic skills necessary for
acquiring a positive self-image, broadening his/her educational
and cultural perspectives and maximizing potential. The program’s
design promotes the development and enhancement of students’
basic skills, academic, (math, science, english, foreign language,
SAT/ACT prep) technology and cultural enrichment, and the motivation
necessary to matriculate at and graduate from college. To insure
students’ complete development, participation in personal
and individual counseling, education /cultural activities and
the summer residential component, in addition to academic support,
developmental and enrichment activities, is mandatory. Students
learn about the college application process, how to apply for
student financial aid, career exploration, etc.
Program Duration
Summer, Monday through Friday
Academic Year, Saturdays 8:30 a.m. - 12:35 p.m.
Program Funding
U.S. Department of Education
UMBC Contact Person
Lynda P. Robertson
Classic Upward Bound Program Director
410-455-2700
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Computer Mania Day
http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/computer_mania.html
http://www.computer-mania.info/
About Target Audience
Middle school students (focus on girls), their parents
and teachers
About the Program
Computer Mania Day is a day designed to encourage 6th
to 8th grade girls' interest in information technology (IT).
It provides a half day of technology-related activities for
middle school students, their parents and teachers. Girls are
the focus, but boys are welcome. The program is designed to
provide a broad based introduction to the ways in which different
careers make use of information technology. An adult/parent
program complements the day by providing information about causes
for girls’ low enrollment in technology courses and what
parents can do to better prepare their children to enter careers
in IT.
The Program Will:
- Teach students about the application
of technology to the world of work through fun and interactive
activities.
- Increase students’ awareness
of technology related fields available to them in high school
and college.
- Provide an adult component where
information about causes for girls’ low enrollment in technology
courses will be provided as well as what adults can do to encourage
girls to embrace technology.
- Provide educators with the skills
students need in order to be successful in an advancing technology
sector.
Program Duration
Computer Mania Day is held each spring
Program Funding
Corporate Sponsors provide funding for the day.
Visit our Web site for a detailed list of sponsors.
UMBC Contact Person
Alisha Sparks
Director of K-12 Programs
Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT)
410-455-8433 voice
410-455-8931 fax
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ENES 101 Introductory Engineering Science
Partnership
Target Audience
Eastern Technical High School students
About the Program
UMBC's College of Engineering and Information Technology established
a partnership with Eastern Technical High School, where the
equivalent of ENES 101 is taught in the high school environment.
ENES 101 is a freshman three-credit course, which covers the
fundamentals of the engineering design process, technical writing
and an introduction to computational and engineering concepts
(such as unit conversion, statistics, error analysis, graphing
and curve fitting). This is followed by an introduction to varying
engineering disciplines, including strength of material, statistics,
fluid mechanics, and heat transfer. The students are then taught
a computer programming language. A major portion of the course
emphasizes the design process; a design project is assigned
where the student must work in teams, and design, construct,
evaluate, test and present (both in written and oral form) the
product.
The Program Will:
1. Introduce the high school students to a college-level engineering
course.
2. Give students the opportunity to receive credit for ENES 101
if they elect to come to UMBC.
3. Give students practice in writing a project report, doing
oral presentations and participating in peer evaluations.
Program Duration
Program Funding
UMBC Contact Person
Taryn M. Bayles
Chemical Engineering Professor at UMBC
410-455-3428
tbayles@gl.umbc.edu
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Engineering Inquiry Based Curricula for Technology Education
Target Audience
Female and minority students
About the Program
This project is providing new curricula that incorporates hands-on
experiences and inquiry-based learning with 'real world' engineering
design exercises that target the Maryland Technology Education Content
Standards as well as national standards in science and mathematics.
A specific objective of the project is to increase the involvement
of females and other underrepresented groups in engineering technology
by providing female and minority role models in the classroom and
developing case studies that encourage interest and participation
by all groups. The development of the curricula is a collaboration
among UMBC, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland
School or Medicine, high school technology education teachers, the
Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) and practicing engineers
in industry.
The Program Will:
1. Develop five case studies, in CD format, that will use real world
examples to introduce students to the engineering design and decision
making processes.
2. Provide in-service training with the curriculum and professional
development opportunities for the Technology Education teachers,
prior to classroom use.
Program Duration
Program Funding
National Science Foundation
UMBC Contact Person
Taryn M. Bayles
Chemical Engineering Professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore
County
410-455-3428
tbayles@gl.umbc.edu
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Enhancing Science and Technology Education
and Exploration Mentoring (ESTEEM)
http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/add/esteem.html
Target Audience
Seventh and eighth grade middle school students (focus on girls)
from six participating middle schools: Brooklyn Park Middle School,
Corkran Middle School, Old Mill Middle North, Catonsville Middle
School, Deep Creek Middle School, Dundalk Middle School.
About the Program
The program includes after-school, weekend and summer camp components.
ESTEEM focuses on building up girls’ (and boys’) interest
in math, science and technology with a special focus on Information
Technology (IT). This motivates the students to take technology-related
classes in the future and encourages them to consider careers
in IT or engineering fields.
The Program Will:
- Teach students about the application of
technology to the world of work through fun and interactive activities.
- Gives students, and particularly girls, the encouragement,
confidence and skills that they need to do well in rigorous
mathematics, science, engineering and IT courses while they
are in school.
- Enhance understanding of science and information technology (IT)
concepts and applications in future learning and career options.
- Create awareness of the possibility of college
as a viable life option through interactions with positive
role models
Program Duration
The program includes after-school, weekend and summer camp sessions
Program Funding
National Science Foundation (NSF)
UMBC Contact Person
Alisha Sparks
Director of K-12 Programs
Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT)
410-455-8433 voice
410-455-8931 fax
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Introducing Engineering Through Mathematics
Target Audience
Students throughout the state of Maryland
About the Program
UMBC in collaboration with Baltimore County Public Schools, Anne
Arundel County Public Schools, the Maryland State Department of
Education, businesses representing the engineering community, the
Baltimore Museum of Industry, and UMBC's Center for Women and Information
Technology are working to familiarize students with engineering
through the standard Algebra curriculum. Additional goals of the
program are to increase the numbers of diverse students able to
understand and apply higher mathematics concepts and to increase
the number of students interested in selecting engineering as a
career choice.
The Program Will:
1. Develop three CD curriculum kits, each targeting a different
aspect of engineering (chemical, electrical, civil, and mechanical)
that can be used in both middle and high school algebra classes.
2. Provide a five-day summer workshop for 24 in-service mathematics
teachers and 8 undergraduate engineering teaching fellows. This
workshop will give an introduction to engineering career opportunities
and an overview of the curriculum on the CDs.
3. Provide forty hours of hands-on instructional classroom support
for middle and high school algebra teachers to help them integrate
the CD curriculum into their courses. This instructional support
will be provided by the undergraduate engineering teaching fellows.
4. Maintain student interest in engineering at targeted schools
through the development and institutionalization of an after-school
program that culminates in a series of competitive activities.
5. Increase the involvement of females and other underrepresented
groups in engineering by providing female and minority engineering
role models in the classroom and developing curricula that encourages
full participation by all groups.
Program Duration
Program Funding
National Science Foundation
UMBC Contact Person
Taryn M. Bayles
Chemical Engineering Professor at UMBC
410-455-3428
tbayles@gl.umbc.edu
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Future Scientists and Engineers of America (FSEA)
Target Audience
Students in grades 4-12
About the Program
Future Scientists and Engineers of America (FSEA) is a national
after-school program that promotes technology, science and engineering.
The program was founded in 1991 by George Westron, Odentics'
engineering manager and college instructor, to address his concern
about the substantial decline in the number of American children
enrolled in college level science, mathematics and engineering
programs. FSEA's goal is to "develop America's future"
by motivating its children, its future work force, to discover
the excitement of these fields by allowing them to become engineers
and scientists today.
The Program Will:
1. Teach students skills in teamwork, communication, discipline
and problem solving.
2. Teach students math, engineering and science through hands-on
projects that the students build themselves.
3. Meet weekly after school to work on hands-on projects.
4. Have two or more volunteer mentors - engineers or scientists,
to guide each club from the community.
Program Duration
Program Funding
A sponsoring organization funds each club $1,500 per year. FSEA
is supported in part by the National Science Foundation.
UMBC Contact Person
Taryn M. Bayles
Chemical Engineering Professor at UMBC
410-455-3428
tbayles@gl.umbc.edu
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Hispanic Apostolate
http://www.research.umbc.edu/~ira/BaltimCity.html
Target Audience
Individuals who speak Spanish as a first language and are seeking
to learn English
About the Program
Offers classes in the English language.
The Program Will:
Program Duration
Monday-Friday: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Tuesday: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Program Funding
$5.00 registration fee.
Contact Person
Rosa Azcarate
410-522-2668
mcorcora@catholiccharities-md.org
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Hands on Science Outreach (HOSO)
Target Audience
Children from kindergarten through 5th grade.
About the Program
HOSO is an after school community program that stimulates "science
in your life" awareness through the fun active involvement
in experiments, games, music and projects. There is a three year
cycle of these classes (each session is eight weeks long) so that
children can continually participate without repeating. The students
that participate in the program pay a class session fee. The PTA
(Parent Teacher Association) provides scholarships for students
interested in the program, but who are unable to afford the class
session fee. In addition, when an Adult Leader volunteers time in
the program, parts of the fees are reallocated to scholarship money
for disadvantaged students.
The Program Will:
1. Provide activities that include hands-on materials that go home
with the children each week.
2. Provide training for the Adult Leader.
Program Duration
Program Funding
Funded in part by the National Science Foundation
UMBC Contact Person
Taryn M. Bayles
Chemical Engineering Professor at UMBC
410-455-3428
tbayles@gl.umbc.edu
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Project Lead the Way (PLTW)
http://www.umbc.edu/pltw
Target Audience
Middle and high school students
About the Program
PLTW has developed a four-year sequence of courses which, when
combined with college preparatory mathematics and science courses
in high school, introduces students to the scope, rigor and
discipline of engineering and engineering technology prior to
entering college.
The courses are:
• Introduction to Engineering Design
• Digital Electronics
• Principles of Engineering
• Computer Integrated Manufacturing
• Civil Engineering and Architecture
• Biotechnical Engineering (in development)
• Aerospace Engineering (in development)
• Engineering Design and Development
A critical component of the Project Lead The Way program is its
comprehensive teacher training model. The curriculum these teachers
are required to teach utilizes cutting edge technology and software
requiring specialized training. Ongoing training supports the teachers
as they implement the program and provides for continuous improvement
of skills.
The Program Will:
1. Attract more students to engineering.
2. Allow students, while still in high school, to determine
if engineering is the career they desire.
3. Better prepare students for college engineering programs.
4. Increase interest and awareness of female and minority students
in technology and related careers.
Program Duration
Program Funding
UMBC Contact Person
Anne Spence
Mechanical Engineering Department
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
410-455-3308
aspence@umbc.edu
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The Fieldtrip Project
Target Audience
Students, parents, families and communities
About the Program
In addition to adequate schools and instruction, sustainable achievement
requires students to be learning-oriented and families to be supportive
in several ways. Where this does not exist, learning suffers in
the long run even if short-term gains are made with bursts of resource
support by school systems. In short, we now know what we’ve
always known, that the attitudes and emotional preparation resulting
from socio-economic status and other factors strongly impacts learning
outcomes. Addressing such issues lies largely beyond the capabilities
of schools—falling outside the objectives for which they are
held directly accountable and requiring resources needed for instruction.
In the past there has been no credible way to address this issue.
Now, this landscape is changing due to rapidly increasing interest
in and access to the Internet by teenagers. A widely interdisciplinary
team of researchers at UMBC is developing a way to use a media rich
online community to attract teens and stimulate a discourse among
them concerning their overall relationship to learning. The site
will collect online test discussion data, which will then be analyzed
by the team. Faculty-advised graduate and undergraduate students
will staff the site. The project is spearheaded by the university’s
Imaging Research Center which has a long track record of innovation
in the use of digital media.
The Program Will:
- Develop an episodic reality show in which
a diverse group of teenage researchers/producers investigate how
and why their education became what it is today—including
family dynamics and politics.
- Work with film and media artists to produce
short films, of commercial quality, on the theme of the U.S.’s
unique focus on following individual paths, and how this leads to
the diverse teams of thinkers from which business, the professions
and our economy ultimately benefit.
- Develop a massive multiplayer game that
allows players to experience a world where they are valued for the
way their cognitive strengths benefit teams of diverse thinkers.
- Produce interviews showing the full range
of kinds of minds that succeed in challenging careers (including
STEM careers.)
- Actively monitored member-driven blogs,
discussion forums and links to related content.
Program Duration
Ongoing
Program Funding
The Robert W. Deutsch Foundation
UMBC Contact Person
Lee Boot
Associate Research Professor,
Associate Director, Imaging Research Center, UMBC
410-455-8444
boot@umbc.edu
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Worthwhile to Help High School Youth (WORTHY)
Target Audience
Inner-city high school students entering their sophomore or
junior year
About the Program
This program provides a unique mentoring/educational outreach
program with the objective of cultivating and motivating future
technical and business talent. Northrop Grumman selects at least
10 students for the program, based on their interest in pursuing
a technical or business degree, academic performance, leadership
skills and community involvement. These students work with two
Northrop Grumman mentors during the school year on selected
projects tailored to their business interests and technical
level. In addition, Northrop Grumman collaborates with UMBC
to provide a six-week summer program for high school students
focused on developing technical, business and leadership skills.
Upon graduation from high school, qualified students receive
multi-year partial scholarships, in addition the students can
return to Northrop Grumman or UMBC to work during the summer
while they are in college.
The Program Will:
1. Give high school students the opportunity to work on a community
service project with elementary school students.
2. Provide students with four weeks of hands-on activities and projects
which focus on engineering education.
3. Teach students basic engineering concepts, problem solving skills
and team work skills.
4. Give students an opportunity to conduct oral presentations to
Northrop Grumman mentors and select UMBC faculty.
Program Duration
Program Funding
UMBC Contact Person
Taryn M. Bayles
Chemical Engineering Professor at UMBC
410-455-3428
tbayles@gl.umbc.edu
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Young Engineers and Scientists Seminars
(YESS)
Target Audience
Highly gifted high school students from the Baltimore/Washington
areas who have a strong aptitude in the engineering and science
fields.
About the Program
This program was founded in 2002 and is funded by the Historical
Electronics Museum. The program incorporates seminar series and
hands-on projects to help students understand the engineering method.
YESS has presented speakers on topics as diverse as plasma physics,
stealth radar, biomedical imagery, super computers/micro technology,
aeronautical engineering, astrophysics and satellite reconnaissance.
Letters are sent to Science, Mathematics, Technology and Engineering
High School teachers and they are asked to nominate students for
participation in the program.
The Program Will:
1. Provide hands on projects to teach students how to go from
theory to modeling, designing, building and testing
2. Engage students in project competitions where they will compete
for prizes.
3. Give out scholarship awards as part of the final project
competition.
Program Duration
Program Funding
A grant from the Northrop Grumman Corporation
UMBC Contact Person
Taryn M. Bayles
Chemical Engineering Professor at UMBC
410-455-3428
tbayles@gl.umbc.edu
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Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture,
UMBC
Visual Art Educational Outreach Programming
Including K-16 Students and Teachers
Target Audience
Public and private students throughout the state of Maryland
About the Program
Our programs are for teachers, and educators as well as students
and parents.
Teachers can call or write CADVC to request curriculum packets
related to exhibitions and to book tours of CADVC visual art
exhibitions. Free bus fares for tours are available on a limited
basis.
Education Outreach with K-12 schools is vital to the Center
for Art, Design and Visual Culture’s programs. The outreach
program places UMBC visual art undergraduate and graduate students
with professional teachers in city schools to produce original
art inspired by guided tours through exhibitions. Interns at
CADVC assist in leading gallery tours and discussions, direct
students in making art work in the schools and hang the art
work produced in an Outreach Exhibition on the campus of UMBC.
In recent years, CADVC has worked with City College Senior High,
Catonsville High, McDonogh School, Loch Raven High, Landsdowne
High, Patapsco High, Towson High, Lombard Middle School, West
Baltimore Middle School, Charles Carroll Barrister Elementary
and Federal Hill Preparatory School. CADVC has reached at least
four hundred K-12 students in the last three years.
The Program Will:
1. Provide a minimum of six tours of an exhibition to high school
students.
2. Provide one or more UMBC interns to work with high school
instructors on design projects related to tour and exhibition
for the design fair.
Program Duration
Program Funding
CADVC, Maryland State Arts Council, and Department of Education
at UMBC.
Program Contact Information
Symmes Gardner, Director, CADVC, UMBC
1000 Hilltop Circle, FA Rm. 105, Baltimore, MD 21250
410-455-3188 (phone) 410-455-1596 (fax)
sgardner@umbc.edu
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