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| A map of attending institutions, including current partner schools in yellow and new members in blue. |
This summer Penn State hosted the first ever National
Engineering Ambassadors Workshop. Attendees included 16 schools from across the
country, our current partner schools, and several special guests from industry
and academia. The goal of this workshop
was to share the Engineering Ambassador program with other schools interested
in either starting their own program or improving an existing ambassador
program. Students learned critical communication skills and participated in
leadership training while academic advisors learned about how to successfully
launch the program.
Student pairs from each school used the new assertion-evidence
presentation style to develop a middle or high school presentation on the topic
of their choice. Students spent many hours working with mentors from current
programs to perfect their presentations and after a day of practice and
critiques on Saturday. With Sunday came 20 presentations, from “Engineering the
Olympics” to “Robotics in the Movies.”
The audience was delighted and awed, not only with the impressive
communication skills, but also with the energy and passion each team showed for
sharing their personal love of engineering.
