Text Box: Engineers’ Week 2006 Launches Out to America’s Middle School Teachers "Connecting Educators to Engineering" This new program will target up to 10,000 middle school teachers with a coordinated push to train engineers to directly interact with educators, provide needed learning materials, and create an online forum for educator and engineer interaction. The Engineers’ Week 2006 Co-Chairs, the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and Northrop Grumman Corporation aim to build on the extensive record of other E-Week programs to connect with students from kindergarten through high school. The middle school years are a particularly prime time to reach students with math and science education so they are prepared for the high school courses necessary to pursue engineering in college. The program’s agenda includes training sessions for engineers and engineering students on how best to work with teachers and others in middle school environments. The importance of reaching young people in seventh and eighth grades shouldn’t be underestimated. Students introduced to the potential and promise of engineering at this age have a much greater inclination to pursue it as a career in later years. The program aims to ensure a diverse and well-educated future engineering workforce by increasing understanding of and interest in engineering and technology careers among young students and by promoting pre-college literacy in math and science. Text Box: A Newsletter of the Wyoming Society of Professional Engineers A State Society of the National Society of Professional Engineers

Connecting Educators to

 Engineering

Gillette, WY

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Note from the Cheyenne Chapter of the WySPE

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MATHCOUNTS Update

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NSPE Fall Ethics Forum

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Meet the National Engineers Week Chairs

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NSPE Regional Meeting Notes

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Good News from the WySPE President

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