The Big Beacon is a Movement to Transform Engineering Education, and was organized to catalyze a global social movement around this goal. The Big Beacon connects dots among individuals and organizations to collaboratively disrupt the status quo, thereby bringing about change to align engineering education with the creativity imperative of our times. Join us for the weekly #BigBeacon Twitter Chat…
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Please join us on Wednesday, November 20th at 8 PM EST for our weekly twitter chat on topics related to engineering education. This week, our guest host will be Dr. Fay Cobb Payton (read more about her below). Our topic will be Retaining and Graduating Underrepresented Students: Finding Creative Hooks for Broadening Participation. Whether you’re an engineering student, an educator,…
Experience is the Best Teacher & the World is the Best Classroom Guest Post by Anthony Naglieri Director of Communications and Marketing at Cultural Vistas From climate change to the struggle of providing energy and other natural resources to a rapidly-growing world population, current and future generations of students will be tasked with developing solutions to challenges of unprecedented scale, geographic scope, and…
Guest Post by PLTW.org Since 1997, Project Lead The Way (PLTW) has been the leading provider of in-school STEM curriculum for millions of middle and high school students. Now, we are expanding the STEM pipeline and bringing our activity-, project-, and problem-based curriculum and professional development to kindergarten through fifth grade. We are proud to announce our K-5 program: PLTW…
Guest Post by Dorothy Powers Vice President of Engagement Project Lead The Way, Inc. What are the chances that an aerospace engineer knows she’s excited about the field without an early introduction to the science of flight? Or that a biomedical researcher embarks on his career in biophysics without having learned at a young age about the fundamentals of motion?…
Guest Post by Guest Host Leonardo Fernandes Read the Summary of the chat here. It’s easy to define the stereotype of an engineer. Some people say that engineers are simply the opposite of the Arts, Humanities and Social professions: they are close-minded, don’t know how to deal with people as well as they deal with machines and they don’t care for what…
STEM: It takes a village Guest Post by Dorothy Powers, Vice President of Engagement, Project Lead The Way, Inc. The old adage, “It takes a village,” still rings true in education today, especially STEM education. Bringing local industry and community organizations into the learning experience drives relevancy in the classroom and helps students see the real-world implications of what they learn. But…
Join NAPE CEO Mimi Lufkin in a Twitter Chat About Access & Equity in STEM NAPE CEO Mimi Lufkin will lead a discussion about equity and access in STEM as a guest host of the Big Beacon Twitter Chat on Wednesday, September 11, 2013, at 8 PM ET. The weekly #BigBeacon Twitter Chat is a time when educators, professionals, and students…
Hi there, Meagan Pollock here, a Big Beacon Ambassador and Leader. What does that mean? It means, as an Ambassador, I am working to increase the awareness and influence of the Big Beacon movement to transform engineering education. As a BB Leader, I am "vanguarding" an initiative to create a wide and active network* of Ambassadors who will do the same!…