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Welcome!

Welcome to the Student Programs Web Site! On this site, you will find information relating to the Student Programs which the Intermediate Unit coordinates. All forms, letters, and correspondence will be posted on this site. Also included will be a calendar of events for each program, as well as associated web links.

The Student Programs are under the direction of Molly T. Bean, with the help of Dr. Carol Bagley and Melanie Floyd.

Program Descriptions

JETS/TEAMS

Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS) Tests of Engineering, Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science (TEAMS) Competition is for high school students in grades 9 through 12. TEAMS is an interscholastic competition that provides a challenge to prepare students for tomorrow’s world today. The TEAMS program encourages team cooperation and group effort, cooperative learning strategy, higher-order thinking, academic rigor, application of knowledge, and leadership and management skills.

MASTERS

The MASTERS (Multifaceted Advanced Summer Training for Excelling Rural Students) Program is a hands-on, in-depth, student centered summer experience. The program will target eighty students in grades two through six who possess high aptitude and interest in specific fields of study. This commuter program has been designed to create a scientific environment where self-directed, gifted students are engaged in a variety of thought provoking activities. The scientific process and higher order thinking skills are evidenced through scientific investigation, mathematical modeling, and problem solving. Interaction among students possessing high ability and interest is a top priority in the classes.

Pennsylvania IU Academic Competition (PAIU)

Teams of four students and two alternates in grade 9 through 12 compete in a one-day spring regional competition. The winning team travels to the state competition in Harrisburg. Contact persons are expected to act as the team’s coach and to accompany the team to the regional, and possibly the state competition. The cost, date and location will be announced in a later mailing to the contacts, as we are working to revamp this program to lower the cost for you.

Regional Summer School of Excellence (RSSE)

The Regional Summer School of Excellence is a program intended to provide hands-on university laboratory and field-based environmental health research and career exploration for talented high school sophomores and juniors within the Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit region. Participating students, coached by working expert scientists and teaching assistants, will work collaboratively with like-minded peers using modern equipment and standard methods to conduct and report scientific investigations and to explore careers in the sciences.

Student Forum

The purpose of the Student Forum is to provide high school students from Crawford, Erie, and Warren Counties the opportunity to meet and gather in a collaborative manner to share common goals, create awareness, and provide a service to their communities.

Other Related Information

Engineering Education Service Center (EESC)
Fall 2009 Poster Contest!

“Engineers of America” is the theme for the Engineering Education Service Center’s Fall 2009 poster contest. This year’s winning entry can be found in a display of inspiration, excitement, wonder and curiosity. Posters should be fun, motivational and inspire students to pursue a degree in engineering, technology, math and/or science.

Engineers are responsible for designing the infrastructure of society. From buildings, to bridges, to tunnels and towers, engineering is humanitarian, caring, and possibly the most effective, hands-on approach to make the world a better place. The engineering field can be very exciting. If you would like a career that allows you to help others on a grand scale or if you ever wanted to make the world a better place, then engineering has something for you!

Engineers strive to make our lives better, easier, cheaper, more efficient and more fun by solving problems in everyday life. Engineers are practical inventors. It is through the work of engineers that we are able to prevent devastation from hurricanes, explore other galaxies, and prevent illness from the worst diseases. The work of engineers includes everything from electric cars to iPods to airplanes and underwater robots. Almost everything you touch has been influenced or designed by an engineer directly or indirectly. It is impossible to think of a major technical development that hasn’t included the work of engineers.

Contest deadline: 11:59pm November 6, 2009
Winners will be notified by November 12, 2009

For more information visit: www.epa.gov/oppt/greenengineering

For entry information, please visit: http://www.engineeringedu.com/postercontest.html

Let's Get Real Challenge

Let's Get Real™ is an academic competition and an opportunity for teams of students to gain experience working on real business challenges. Corporate sponsors supply real challenges for which teams submit solutions in business format. Each team chooses from the list of challenges the one(s) it finds most interesting. Challenges might include areas such as environmental issues, manufacturing, distribution, engineering, software creation, human resources, health and safety, facilities design, public relations, or any other areas deemed important to the corporations involved. There is NO entry fee for teams.

http://www.lgreal.org

Any group (2 - 6 teammates) of students in grades 6 - 12. Does not have to be from same school. Students must have a coordinator who is at least 21 years old.

Basic Information

Calendars

A Calendar of Events will be available for each program. It will be located on each program's appropriate tab. Click on each event's name to view more details about the event.

Correspondence

All correspondence (forms, letters, etc.) will only be available via this site. E-mails will be sent to appropriate school personnel when updates have been made.

Forms

All forms will be fill-in enabled. To use a form: