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WOMEN IN DEFENSE TENNESSEE VALLEY CHAPTER

Women in Defense Tennessee Valley Chapter supporting STEM Initiative, fostering interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics by providing educational tools for local schools.

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WOMEN IN DEFENSE TENNESSEE VALLEY CHAPTER

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  1. WOMEN IN DEFENSETENNESSEE VALLEY CHAPTER SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS (STEM) INITIATIVE Deborah Fraley STEM Director, WID TVC and Business Development Manager Quantum Research International, Inc. 256-971-1800 x 258 256-682-2951 cell 256-971-1801 fax dfraley@quantum-intl.com

  2. WOMEN IN DEFENSE TENNESSEE VALLEY CHAPTERSTEM MISSION The Tennessee Valley Chapter (TVC) of Women in Defense (WID) is taking an active role in supporting educational needs for the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Initiative that encourages young people to pursue careers in national defense and national security to eventually replace our aging workforce.  WID TVC support is focused on securing financial backing from similar professional organizations, defense contractors, and local community organizations that will fund the creation of STEM educational tools for use in elementary, middle school and high school classrooms in the Tennessee Valley area. 

  3. WOMEN IN DEFENSETENNESSEE VALLEY CHAPTERSTEM MISSION • Our STEM Initiative started in 2009 with the realization that our aging technical workforce in the Huntsville area (average age 57), both Government and industry employees, did not have a large number of young people trained in technical fields who were up and coming to eventually provide replacement capabilities when the senior level staff retire. • We decided to take on the mission of adding a new element to the already ongoing STEM activities in the TN Valley area by providing hands-on tools to science teachers in the local schools that could be used to demonstrate scientific and mathematical principles to the students, supplementing lectures and standard teaching methods with tools that provide an element of participative fun to the students’ learning process.

  4. WOMEN IN DEFENSETENNESSEE VALLEY CHAPTERSTEM MISSION • We work with the Huntsville Space and Missile Defense Working Group (part of the local National Defense Industrial Association chapter) to obtain the majority of our funding ($5K per year) that goes toward creation of the STEM tools that are donated to local schools. We report back to the SMD Working Group annually on the products developed with this funding and receive a recurring line item in their annual budget. • We partner with the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to get the STEM tools designed and built for the participating schools through selection of engineering student teams in the senior level engineering capstone design classes that take on our projects by choice from a list of available projects.

  5. WOMEN IN DEFENSETENNESSEE VALLEY CHAPTERSTEM MISSION Typical Process/Schedule for a STEM Tool over two semesters: • WID STEM Director coordinates between “customer” school and UAH student design team to determine requirements for tool and assist with customer outreach activities that create stakeholders and teach engineering students about customer interface • First Semester activities include final resolution of requirements, initial system architecture concept, patent searches, functional and safety evaluations, concept of operations, preliminary functional baseline, risk assessment and issue mitigations, structural analysis, potential manufacturing techniques, test planning, cost analysis, and two formal reviews, culminating in a preliminary design review • Second Semester activities include finalization of all elements from the first semester that produces a final design, build and test of the tool, two formal reviews, and presentation of the completed tool to the students at the customer school • An additional element to this process includes mentoring of the engineering student design teams by our STEM Director who possesses 38 years of engineering experience as a defense contractor

  6. WOMEN IN DEFENSETENNESSEE VALLEY CHAPTERSTEM MISSION We have presented 22 STEM tools to local schools in the TN Valley area and to the Sci-Quest Hands-On Science Center over the course of our program, including: • Fluid Flow Demonstrator • Wimshurst Machine • Tabletop Wind Tunnel for aircraft and similar unit for automobiles • Learning Stations – reconfigurable stations equipped with computer systems for research • Earthquake Simulator • Pulley System of Systems Demonstrator • Ballistic Pendulum • Trebuchet Catapult • Solar System Model • CO2 Race Car Launch System • Tabletop Catapult • Solar Roller Coaster • Solar Race Cars • Energy Racers • Hybrid Engine • Ping Pong Ball Shooting Gallery • Water Distillation Unit • Marble Roller Coaster Race Tracks Station • Mobile Experimentation Station • Brain Models Illustrating Dyslexia • Water Systems Table

  7. WOMEN IN DEFENSE - TVCTOOLS DELIVERED TO AREA SCHOOLSPULLEY SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDENCE MIDDLE SCHOOL

  8. WOMEN IN DEFENSE TVCTOOLS DELIVERED TO AREA SCHOOLSEARTHQUAKE SIMULATOR FOR PROVIDENCE MIDDLE SCHOOL

  9. WOMEN IN DEFENSE TVCTOOLS DELIVERED TO AREA SCHOOLSLEARNING STATION FOR MT CARMEL ELEMENTARY

  10. WOMEN IN DEFENSE TVCTOOLS DELIVERED TO AREA SCHOOLSTABLETOP CATAPULT FOR WILLIAMS MIDDLE SCHOOL

  11. WOMEN IN DEFENSE – TVCTOOLS DELIVERED TO AREA SCHOOLSWATER DISTILLATION UNIT FOR DISCOVERY MIDDLE SCHOOL

  12. WOMEN IN DEFENSE TVCTOOLS DELIVERED TO STUDENT MUSEUMSSOLAR ROLLER COASTER FOR SCI-QUEST

  13. WOMEN IN DEFENSE TVCTOOLS DELIVERED TO STUDENT MUSEUMSSOLAR RACER FOR SCI-QUEST

  14. WOMEN IN DEFENSE TVCTOOLS DELIVERED TO STUDENT MUSEUMSPING PONG BALL SHOOTING GALLERY FOR SCI-QUEST

  15. WOMEN IN DEFENSE - TVCTOOLS DELIVERED TO AREA SCHOOLSMARBLE ROLLER COASTERS FOR MT CARMEL ELEMENTARY

  16. WOMEN IN DEFENSE - TVCTOOLS DELIVERED TO STUDENT MUSEUMSMOBILE EXPERIMENT CART FOR SCI-QUEST

  17. WOMEN IN DEFENSE - TVCTOOLS DELIVERED TO AREA SCHOOLSBRAIN MODELS FOR DYSLEXIA CONDITION AND EDUCATION

  18. WOMEN IN DEFENSE - TVCTOOLS DELIVERED TO AREA SCHOOLSTABLETOP WIND TUNNEL FOR MILL CREEK ELEMENTARY

  19. WOMEN IN DEFENSE - TVCTOOLS DELIVERED TO AREA SCHOOLSWATER SYSTEMS TABLE FOR WALNUT GROVE ELEMENTARY

  20. WOMEN IN DEFENSETENNESSEE VALLEY CHAPTERSTEM MISSION In 2017 we have these projects planned thus far: • Completion of Portable Roller Coaster System for Harvest Elementary School (first semester work has been done) • Earthquake Simulator for Horizon Elementary • Portable Roller Coaster System for Mt Carmel Elementary

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