{"id":2059,"date":"2005-09-16T11:32:25","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T15:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:33:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T16:33:17","slug":"one-giant-step-reaches-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2005\/09\/one-giant-step-reaches-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"One Giant Step Reaches Out to Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To encourage young people to become more curious about science, technology, engineering, and math, Leigh R. Abts knows you have to let them tinker. He began by inviting their teachers into the Whiting School\u2019s labs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 587px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/8_901.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2060\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/8_901.jpg\" alt=\"In Baltimore\u2019s Forest Park High School, Darlene Malet\u2019s students unpack the new computers that she obtained with a grant after taking part in a summer program sponsored by the Whiting School\u2019s Center for Educational Outreach. \u201cThis equipment will allow our students to get back to what science is all about\u2014discovery,\u201d noted Malet.\" width=\"577\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/8_901.jpg 577w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/8_901-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>In Baltimore\u2019s Forest Park High School, Darlene Malet\u2019s students unpack the new computers that she obtained with a grant after taking part in a summer program sponsored by the Whiting School\u2019s Center for Educational Outreach. \u201cThis equipment will allow our students to get back to what science is all about\u2014discovery,\u201d noted Malet.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ninety slides detailing every step for skinning a deer. Not exactly the lesson plan that the Whiting School of Engineering graduate students expected during orientation this past summer as Fellows for BIGSTEP. A new initiative by the Whiting School\u2019s Center for Educational Outreach (CEO), BIGSTEP stands for the Broader Impact for Graduate Students Transferring Engineering Principles.<\/p>\n<p>The slides were part of the standard middle school lesson plan for the Chippewa tribe in Minnesota. During this academic year, the eight Whiting School students selected as the inaugural BIGSTEP Fellows are working with underserved K-12 classrooms at the White Earth and Leech Lake Tribal Reservation schools in Minnesota, as well as in inner-city Baltimore and Baltimore County.<\/p>\n<p>Each BIGSTEP Fellow is designing an environmentally themed classroom project based on his or her research and the school\u2019s curriculum. The teaching fellows are all advanced graduate students in the Whiting School\u2019s Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering. The lesson plan on skinning a deer happened to be exactly at the intersection of scientific innovation and cultural tradition that Leigh R. Abts had envisioned. \u201cThe deer slides were something none of our students were prepared for, and it made them aware that there are different cultures in this country,\u201d says Abts, who is deputy director of the CEO. Abts also is principal research scientist with the Whiting School\u2019s Department of Computer Science.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf we\u2019ve convinced kids to take one more math and science course, then we\u2019ve succeeded.\u201d <cite>Leigh R. Abts, Deputy Director of the Whiting School\u2019s Center for Educational Outreach<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With each CEO program or partnership, Abts sees its ultimate goal as engineering, math, and science literacy, not training. \u201cOur idea is not to make every kid an engineer,\u201d he notes. \u201cIf we\u2019ve convinced kids to take one more math and science course, then we\u2019ve succeeded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The idea behind BIGSTEP\u2014and the new center itself\u2014grew out of Abts\u2019 previous role as executive director of the Whiting School\u2019s Engineering Research Center, as well as his interest in enhancing the educational outreach component of its faculty grants funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). In summer 2001, after brainstorming with the NSF about better ways to reach K-12 students, Abts gathered 26 teachers to give them a chance to work in Hopkins labs with faculty from the Whiting School and eight other universities. The experiment was a hit: Teachers had leading-edge research to take back to the classroom, while faculty easily and meaningfully met NSF outreach requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The NSF was impressed\u2014so much so, that in 2002, it invited Abts to apply for approximately $500,000 to sponsor more teachers. Since then, the summer Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) initiative has provided hands-on training for 150 teachers regionally through its partnership with Howard Community College. Meanwhile, the Whiting School\u2019s summer research model has been replicated nationally: Nearly 500 teachers and 150 researchers have participated in similar programs at universities across the country. In 2002, Abts and the Engineering Research Center developed a project to bring Native American teachers to campus.<\/p>\n<p>By 2003, these outreach efforts had become so big that Abts\u2014 with Hopkins\u2019 blessing and NSF funding\u2014founded the CEO. In addition to working with Whiting School faculty to create outreach programs based on individual research grants, this new center sponsors a three-credit engineering course for Montgomery County high school students and a \u201cWhat Is Engineering\u201d fair for inner-city students.<\/p>\n<p>A program Abts created for Hopkins and Carnegie Mellon University gave 26 Pittsburgh teachers hands-on experience in building robotics systems. Last spring in Baltimore, Darlene Malat, who has been teaching high school for 30 years, applied what she had learned in the Whiting School\u2019s RET summer program to write a grant proposal. That gained her NSF funds to equip her classroom with computers and Probeware to gather and analyze data in science, math, and technology classes. \u201cThis equipment will allow our students to get back to what science is all about\u2014discovery,\u201d Malat noted in an article in <em>The JHU Gazette<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the CEO added a program in conjunction with the National Inventors Hall of Fame to mentor budding, underserved student inventors from Baltimore and Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO also manages the initiatives of Strategies for Engineering Education K-16 (SEEK-16), a grassroots, Baltimorebased initiative \u201cto foster universal student literacy\u201d in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (known as STEM education). Last February in Washington, D.C., SEEK-16 sponsored a national summit that attracted 200 cultural, scientific, educational, and industry leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Among the STEM education initiatives, the Whiting School\u2019s new center is leading a committee of experts in developing an Engineering Advanced Placement course for high-school students. These experts come from universities, among them Carnegie Mellon, Tufts, and Vanderbilt, and institutions such as the National Federation of the Blind. The Energy Bill, passed by Congress and signed into law in August, includes another important initiative: a SEEK-16 pilot program in science and engineering education.<\/p>\n<p>Abts is perfectly suited to encouraging STEM education. He has a doctorate from Brown University in biomedical engineering and a career in company start-ups, including the Hopkins venture capital fund and FutureHealth, a patient risk management care company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is more meaningful than any start-up I\u2019ve ever done,\u201d Abts says. \u201cChildren are the greatest return on our investment. We are going to become a Third-World country in science and math education in a few years if we don\u2019t start addressing this. The CEO helps to provide national leadership and brings people together around ideas and themes. Plus, it\u2019s Hopkins. We need to take a leadership role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That role takes Abts to Congress; he serves on the national STEMEd Caucus Steering Committee, which advises both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Already, Abts and the Whiting School\u2019s CEO are gaining attention nationally. Mary F. Poats, program manager for the NSF\u2019s Division of Engineering Education and Centers, noted that as other nations become more developed, \u201cIt is more important than ever for the U.S. to attract the best and brightest of our young people into engineering studies,\u201d especially youngsters from underrepresented groups. The CEO \u201chas been pursuing excellent and innovative K-16 programs aimed at doing just that,\u201d Poats stated. Under Abts \u201cstrong leadership,\u201d she added, this new center \u201cis beginning to have a positive impact on bringing together the various learning communities to accomplish this goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Leigh R. Abts at leighabts@aol.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To encourage young people to become more curious about science, technology, engineering, and math, Leigh R. Abts knows you have to let them tinker. He began by inviting their teachers into the Whiting School\u2019s labs. 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