FES
Mentoring Programs
FES
offers many ways to mentor students and young professionals
in the engineering field.
FES
Career Guidance Program
FES
members can participate as volunteers in several career
guidance programs that encourage students to pursue careers
in engineering. Career guidance materials regarding various
engineering fields are available from JETS.
Florida
MATHCOUNTS
MATHCOUNTS,
adopted by FES in 1982, is a math coaching and competition
program designed specifically for seventh and eighth grade
students. It makes math fun for students while introducing
them to math and science related careers. The program
begins in the classroom and progresses through school,
regional and state competitions, culminating with the
national competition in June.
By
helping to build math skills and promote strategic problem-solving,
MATHCOUNTS helps prepare a future workforce to meet the
needs of a growing technological society. It affects students
at an age when they are developing their qualitative skills
and attitudes about math and technology — when they
can still elect to take accelerated math courses in high
school to prepare them for college and careers requiring
expertise in math. CLICK HERE
for more information about Florida MATHCOUNTS.
Project
CREATE
Project
CREATE (Creative Response from Elementary Age ThinkErs)
is designed to help instill in fourth and fifth grade
students a greater awareness of creative thinking and
application of creativity in a non-competitive and non-threatening
problem-solving atmosphere. Project CREATE presents an
engineering-type problem to the children, and provides
a basic framework and sequence within which a solution
can be developed.
The
program is underway in a number of FES chapters, and numerous
volunteers are required to administer the program. To
request more information on Project CREATE, e-mail
us.
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