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| Topic Started: Jan 4 2008, 11:38 AM (1,449 Views) | |
| Post #1 Jan 4 2008, 11:38 AM |
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| I'm going to be giving an engineering presentation to a bunch of 5th graders on "Career Day" at my son's elementary school. I've got a half hour to work with. My plan right now is to spend 5 - 10 minutes talking about engineering in general and another 5 - 10 minutes talking about what I do as an engineer at my job. I would finish off my dividing the group into teams and playing Jeopardy! to see who's been paying attention. My company has a set of "game show buzzers" that we use for training that I'm going to borrow. Anybody have ideas they want to contribute? |
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| Post #2 Jan 4 2008, 12:04 PM |
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| Here's my 2 cents - make sure they understand the words that you use in your presentation. I'd also include all the different types of engineers there are - electrical, civil, etc. Since it is career day - they should know the options if they should want to become engineers. And make sure the girls know that they can also become engineers. I think my husband's office currently has more women than men engineers. |
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| Post #3 Jan 4 2008, 12:37 PM |
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I'm trying to recruit one of the female engineers in the office. She's reluctant because she doesn't like public speaking. I'm trying to convince her that she can still accomplish a lot simply by being there and helping me out. I really want to avoid the whole assembling a tower out of marshmellows and toothpicks bit because it's so cliche. I plan on talking about the different engineering disciplines at the beginning - explain how engineers are basically people who design stuff. I really want to dispell the notion that engineers are a bunch of geeky, white men who sit at a computer all day long. |
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| Post #4 Jan 4 2008, 06:37 PM |
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Badrabbit, Good luck on dispelling that concept - geeky white men. I've told people I'm an accountant (or was when I worked) and then they talk to me for 15 or 30 minutes and still don't believe I'm an accountant - I'm just not conservative in nature enough - hence the screen name - Goofball. And believe me, my hubby (electrical engineer) is just as goofy. And his office Xmas party wasn't exactly boring with a bunch of geeky engineers. But, then again, hubby and I were there keeping it goofy. LOL!!!! Tell the engineer that she'll be speaking to a bunch of 5th graders - how hard could that be? Well, I guess with the way a lot of kids act these days, it could be hard - they could heckle her. Can you take some drawings and then pictures of things that have been built - show how it goes from a concept on paper to actually being something useful. Such as a bridge or a building. I think pictures go a long way with kids. But maybe that's because I'm such a visual person. LOL!!! |
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