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Promoting Engineering To K12 Students Through Spatially Challenging Making And Outreach Activities, Gavin Duffy, Marten Westerhof, Deborah Keogh, Colm O'Kane
Promoting Engineering To K12 Students Through Spatially Challenging Making And Outreach Activities, Gavin Duffy, Marten Westerhof, Deborah Keogh, Colm O'Kane
Workshops
Outreach activities are an important and valuable approach to promoting engineering education and careers to young people. They provide an excellent way to show that engineering can be fun, challenging and rewarding. With some careful thinking, they can also be used to promote and develop spatial ability, a cognitive ability that is very important to engineering. The purpose of this workshop is to demonstrate examples of outreach activities that are the result of such careful thinking. Those who attend this workshop will be able to:
- Explain why and how spatial ability is so important to success in engineering education
- Summarise …