Engineering the Future

In the summer of 2014, I was a part of an engineering curriculum professional development and student camp through Hope College. Professors Eric Mann and Susan Ipri Brown wrote a grant to explore a new engineering curriculum out of the Boston Museum of Science. As part of the grant, students were invited to engage in a week-long summer camp to work through one of four units in the curriculum. Students will, “engage in the engineering design process to design a building of the future. Participants’ creativity will shine through as they learn to balance customer needs, costs, and existing technologies with their own ideas. Participants will prepare engineering designs, drawings and models of their concepts for review by others.” according to Hope College. With my involvement in the project, our school was able to send 22 of our students for free to this otherwise expensive opportunity.