Volunteering & Outreach Breakout:

1. Volunteering & Outreach Breakout: “How Your Group Can Get Involved and How We Can All Work Together” January 15, 2011 Portland, ME

2. Today’s Session • How you can participate • How We Can All Work Together • Breakout Discussion

3. How You Can Participate

4. Elementary School • Elementary school handouts • ASCEville and Poster • Building Big • Fetch with Ruff Ruffman • Zoom into Engineering • Curious George – Let’s Build! • Other • EYL Brochure, postcard and poster • Discover Magazines (JETS) • PowerPoint slides • ASCEville stickers • High school • Career Fair Kit • High school Handouts • Future Web services • West Point Bridge • Middle School • Career Fair Kit • Middle school handouts • ASCEville and poster • West Point Bridge • Building Big • Design Squad • Cyberchase

5. Visit ASCEville! ASCE’s PUBLIC K-12 Outreach Website 5

6. ASCE’s Handouts

7. High School

8. High School Student Transition Strategy • (Embracing a cradle to grave philosophy of building and retaining the best talent out there.) • Provide high school students with a pre-professional experience to support their interest in engineering • Connect high school students with ASCE student chapter members to build bridges between high school students and future civil engineers.

9. Teamwork!

10. www.engineeryourlife.org ASCE sponsored website for young women

12. PreK-1: Curious George Let’s Build!Outreach Program

13. Grades 1-5 • Activity Guide • CD • Show on hiaitus

14. Grades 3-5 • Activity Guide • Challenge Pack • Reality Show • After-School Clubs

15. Grades 6-8 • Activity Guide • DVD and Book

16. Grades 6-8 • Easily reworked for High School • Reality-based engineering show • Activity Guide for events or clubs

17. Read a Storybook

18. Speaking to classes of kids or big assemblies • Career Fairs

19. After-school programs • Field Trips

20. Job ShadowTeacher ExternshipsHigh School Interns

21. FUTURE CITY • Other Local Contests

22. Trainings for Engineers • Teacher In-service Trainings • Guidance Counselor Symposia

23. STEM ( Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics ) Education Advocacy • (Ensuring that America’s students are prepared for the Grand Challenges of the 21st century.) • Inform members about engineering education policy • Support members interest in affecting change

24. Assisting Colleges and Young Engineers • Judge a Concrete Canoe or Steel Bridge Competition • Organize a Scholarship Program • Run a PE Refresher Course or any other Training Class • Set up a mentoring program or a lecture series specifically for students or young members.

25. Food for Thought • TV Show, Book or Newsletter to the Public Showing Great Things Civil Engineers Do • Large-Scale Events with Competitions and Hands-On Activities • Coordinate an Alliance of Numerous Non-Profits and Professional Societies • Join several sections or YMG’s together to do a larger project

26. A Summary: Activities with Students • In Class Activities • Speaking to classes of kids or big assemblies • After-school programs • Career fairs • Contests • Field Trips • Job Shadowing • Setting up a big event of your own

27. A Summary: General educational help • Inform Guidance Counselors about Civil Engineering • Help Teachers Develop Lesson Plans • Create Publications and Presentations • Gather Various Outreach Organizations • Help Engineers Get Started in Outreach • Get Engineering included in your state core curriculum • Get involved with a Science Museum

28. How We Can Work Together CPO CVCS

29. In 2009, our members said this… • ASCE Annual Membership Study • Pre-college outreach is ranked 4 out of 22 program areas that members would support financially if they were administrators of the annual budget • 91 percent describe pre-college outreach programs as “very valuable” • 42 percent are aware of pre-college outreach resources • 8 percent have used them in the past two years • ASCE Key Contacts Issues Survey • Math and science education (pre-college) is ranked 4 out of 34 federal legislative areas Key Contacts had an interest in pursuing

30. What do we tell them? Being an engineering /civil engineering is both enjoyable and makes you feel proud Relevant information to feed their growing interest The pathway to becoming an engineer Gradual orientation to specific programs and services of ASCE that benefit students

31. How do we relay this info? Trained & engaged engineer volunteers/mentors Directly to students Through adults who influence kid’s choices In cooperation with other engineering outreach initiatives

32. Never before …

33. 2015 2010 2013 11th Grader 5th Grader 8th Grader

34. ASCE’s Ongoing Efforts • Committee on Pre-College Outreach • Develops Materials and Website For Kids • Coordinates Hands-On Events for Kids • Builds Bridges to Other Outreach Organizations • Committee on Volunteer Community Service • Network of Active Volunteers • Rewards Outstanding Efforts and Members

35. Committee on Volunteer Community Service(All forms of Community Volunteerism) • Network of Active Volunteers • Rewards Outstanding Efforts and Members • Tip Sheets • Volunteer News

36. ASCE Awards given yearly include Public Service Awards to Groups or Sections and Citizen Awards to Individuals. • Dozens of Other ASCE related Awards can involve community service (Diversity Champion, “Young Faces”, Edmund Freeman, etc.)

37. The New Sliced Bread: Discover “e”www.mydiscover-e.orgPost Your Events!

38. Committee on Pre-College Outreach Contacts: • Jane Howell • Director of Communications • CPO Staff Director • 703-295-6403 jhowell@asce.org • Leslie Payne • Manager, Pre-College Outreach • CPO Staff Liaison • 703-295-6364 lpayne@asce.org • Sybil Hatch, P.E. M. ASCE • CPO Chair • 510-558-8825 • s.hatch@conveyinc.com • Ken Maschke, P.E., M. ASCE • CPO Past-chair • 312-596-2126 • KMaschke@ThornTommasetti.com

39. Committee on Volunteer Community Service Contacts: • Reed Brockman, PE • Past Chair, CVCS & CPO • Outreach Coordinator, Boston Society of Civil Engineers • Reed.brockman@aecom.com • www.engineeryourfuture.org • 617-240-7979 Becky Waldrup Staff Liaison, Volunteer Community Service 703-295-6281 rwaldrup@asce.org

40. THE BENEFITS • Professional recognition. • The students will inspire you. • You will become a better leader. • You are making the future.

41. DISCUSSION • What Does Your Group Do? • Any Stumbling Blocks? • Anything You Want To Do? • What Help Would You Like To See?

42. GET INVOLVED! Thank You!!