Engineering Mindset 7 : Children evaluate designs and make improvements By Christine Cunningham As mentioned earlier, reflection and evaluation of ideas is critical to the engineering mindset. Children are rarely…
Engaging in STEM: Putting Engineering Mindsets in Action So we’ve talked about the engineering mindsets, but let’s look at some ways you can bring them to life in your program.…
Engineering Mindset 9: Children Work Effectively in Teams When you think teamwork skills as part of afterschool activities, I’m going to guess that science isn’t the first activity that comes…
Engineering Mindset 8: Children Persist and Learn from Failure Can you remember a time when you failed? Was it public--a moment when you get a pit in your stomach, your…
CT STEM OST Provider Feature Girl Scouts of Connecticut is part of the national organization Girl Scouts of America. As one of the best known out of school time providers,…
Technovation Online Design Challenges Over three hour-long sessions this fall with Technovation, you’ll become an expert in leading engineering design challenges online that help students develop engineering mindsets: 1) use…
