T2-B: STEMpreneur Pitch: A Hands-on Engineering Entrepreneurship Experience for Middle School Students

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Bill France B

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5-3-2018 1:45 PM

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Recently, about 100 middle school students were selected from 12 participating Minority Serving Institutions to attend a STEM Youth Summit in San Francisco, CA. Each campus team was asked to apply skills gained over the past year to develop a design/technology solution for solving a United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UN SDG). Each team created a 2- minute video to pitch their product ideas to an independent judging panel. The top 3 teams were invited to present their pitch before a live judging panel and audience during the Youth Summit. The projects delivered by the top 3 teams are presented in this paper. A discussion on how the teams prepared for the pitch competition is also provided.

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Mar 5th, 1:45 PM

T2-B: STEMpreneur Pitch: A Hands-on Engineering Entrepreneurship Experience for Middle School Students

Bill France B

Recently, about 100 middle school students were selected from 12 participating Minority Serving Institutions to attend a STEM Youth Summit in San Francisco, CA. Each campus team was asked to apply skills gained over the past year to develop a design/technology solution for solving a United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UN SDG). Each team created a 2- minute video to pitch their product ideas to an independent judging panel. The top 3 teams were invited to present their pitch before a live judging panel and audience during the Youth Summit. The projects delivered by the top 3 teams are presented in this paper. A discussion on how the teams prepared for the pitch competition is also provided.