Abstract: |
The Girl Scout Saturday (GSS) WEP outreach program addresses both retention and recruitment challenges. GSS program mentoring opportunities strengthen engineering career choices for first-year students, enhance leadership opportunities for older students, and create a hands-on learning environment for pre-college girls. Approximately 400 pre-college girls ages 6-17, and 300 undergraduate women engineer volunteers participate in WEP Girl Scout Saturdays annually. This innovative partnership provides undergraduate women engineers with leadership experience, establishes pathway girls with technical opportunities and role models, and facilitates an exciting environment to explore engineering. GSS undergraduate women engineers work to engage girls in hands-on engineering activities and to recruit them to engineering, thus expanding entry points on the engineering pathway. GSS program topics include robotics, computers, aerospace, acoustics, inventions, automobile design and mechanics. Program assessment results will be discussed.
Index Terms ¾ Hands-on workshops, pre-college, recruitment, retention |
