The NC-EWeek volunteer group encourages North Carolina school children to increase their technical literacy and pursue technology careers by providing role models from the local engineering community. This is the 60th anniversary of Engineers Week, also called EWeek for short, and IBM's centennial anniversary. During this year's presentations we will also be honoring the many leaders who have made Engineers Week possible over these 6 decades!
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2011 Volunteer Registation Ready! Please register your school.
Registration for EWeek 2011 is now open.
School teachers or administrators or site EWeek requestors: Please
use this form to request visits from EWeek volunteers to your school.
We appreciate you taking the time to fill the form out and leave a
contact phone number with your school address. Volunteers: Please
enter your name in the Volunteer Name field. If you are both
Volunteering and signing up a school that isn't yet signed up, please
fill out the Volunteer name AND all required school name fields.
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Posted Jan 31, 2011 6:04 AM by NC Eweek
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EWeek 2011 Kick-Off Presentation
;) ;) Fran O'Sullivan is our featured guest for our 2011 EWeek
Kickoff meeting in the EAFC (Building 400) on the IBM RTP main site at 9:30am on Thursday 3Feb2011.
Fran has been a very vocal proponent of K-12 Education initiatives at
IBM and with Lenovo. We hope you can come and hear for yourself Fran's
enthusiasm in helping motivate our regional NC-EWeek volunteers during
this 100th anniversary of IBM's founding. Please plan to join us to hear Dr. Dave and to pick up your EWeek supplies. It's that exciting time of the year again. EWeek, or Engineers Week, is ready to start. It's time to talk with our students. Whether you are in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, computer science, business, or other fields, your career is an exciting, sharing time for our students. We can expose them to their future career possibilities just by sharing our careers/jobs with them. We can help our students because once you help them, it is hard to walk away or say no. Please help our nation alleviate a talent gap that we face in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, the international language of innovation. Please plan to join us in the Employee Activity Fitness Center on Thursday, February 3rd at 9:30 am, along with being able to register for a school(s) to visit, to get supplies, and to get training if needed. Please remember that you can always use your own sharing ideas with our students. 9:30 am brief introductions and EWeek history and Fran O'Sullivan 10:00 - 10:45 am show 4 experiments below (multiple setups) 10:45 - 11:30 am show 4 experiments below (multiple setups)
Supplies pickup is ongoing during the 10 am to noon time frame- Nose Dive http://www.tryscience.org/experiments/experiments_nosedive_athome.html- Spaghetti Bridge http://www.tryscience.org/experiments/experiments_begin.html?spaghettibridge- Puff Mobile and Marshmallow Tower http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/index.html - Handouts (please also check NC-EWeek Files) - Talking Points for EWeek Orientation - 2008 Engineering Brochure - Quick Guide for Success - additional airplanes samples for another experiment - These videos may be accessed through Youtube: - The Answer to our Future (energizes IBM volunteers): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB94jz2VWg4 - Do You Believe in Magic? (to show to middle school students): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6qpeDsePkc |
Posted Jan 31, 2011 10:16 AM by NC Eweek
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Is+Engineering+for+You_SSE.ppt
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Is Engineering for You?
What are the aspects of Engineering?
What is engineering?
What do engineers do?
How do you become an engineer?
Why math and science?
A Day in the Life…
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PaperAirplaneDesign.zip
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Four designs for paper airplanes in EWeek experiments.
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QuickGuideToSuccess.ppt
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Quick Guide To Success
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2008EngineeringBrochure.doc
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New brochure created by one of our volunteers for EWeek career fairs. Please feel free to use as is or to change for your use. Salary estimates included. 2008 Engineering Brochure (ms/doc, 362k)
Classroom Experiment Library
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Transistor experiments
Transistor experiments
Tue, 2006-09-12 21:33 — NC.EWeek
Objective:
With this experiment, students will learn more about how transistors
work, how they are used to make decisions and ...
Posted Feb 2, 2010 12:47 PM by Barry Evans
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Software protocol
Software protocol
Tue, 2006-09-12 21:31 — NC.EWeek
Objective: To illustrate how computers communicate large amounts of information over a single wire or communication channel
Terms to know ...
Posted Feb 2, 2010 12:46 PM by Barry Evans
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Mouse trap vehicle
Mouse trap vehicle
Tue, 2006-09-12 21:26 — NC.EWeek
Supplies:
1 Mouse trap (rat traps are even better!) Toy wheels (either with small tacks/nails or on axles ...
Posted Feb 2, 2010 12:45 PM by Barry Evans
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Materials under stress
Materials under stress
Tue, 2006-09-12 21:23 — NC.EWeek
Experiment 1: Materials Deform Under Stress
In
this exercise, we will explore the behavior of elastic bodies under
load ...
Posted Feb 2, 2010 12:45 PM by Barry Evans
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Build a raft
Build a raft
Tue, 2006-09-12 21:20 — NC.EWeek
Materials:Per
team: six drinking straws, tape, scissors (optional), pennies, washers
or nails as weights, a tub of water ...
Posted Feb 2, 2010 12:39 PM by Barry Evans
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Amateur Radio
A great activity for kids in 6th through 12th
grade is to get them involved with amateur radio. Usually the start off
on this is to bring an ...
Posted Feb 2, 2010 12:38 PM by Barry Evans
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Be an inventor
Materials:
Paper and pencil, optional to share a copy of an invention and or/designs for invention
Procedure:
Have
each student think about something they don't like to do ...
Posted Feb 2, 2010 12:37 PM by Barry Evans
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