Maryam Kamgarpour, Claire Tomlin, David Culler, Shankar Sastry, Edward Lee, Hamsa Balakrishnan University of California at Berkeley August 20 2012 Outreach.

Maryam Kamgarpour, Claire Tomlin, David Culler, Shankar Sastry, Edward Lee, Hamsa Balakrishnan

University of California at Berkeley

August 20 2012

Outreach Programs

techGYRLS Elementary School Outreach

• techGYRLS: http://www.ywca-berkeley.org/programs-for-youth/#tech– Run by YWCA– Started as an afterschool program for girls in underprivileged Oakland

public elementary schools– Improve girls’ confidence and interests in technology and engineering

through hands-on activities– Maryam Kamgarpour has been a mentor in techGYRLS since 2006– Potential for introducing new curriculum

• Techbridge: http://www.techbridgegirls.org/ – Develops and implements engineering based lesson plans for K-12– SnapCircuits: kid-friendly circuit board

SnapCircuits

• Emerson Elementary School: Fall 2011• La Escuelita Elementary School: Spring 2012• 4 Berkeley Engineering Grad students, tutored and

evaluated by Techbridge

SnapCircuits

• Electricity and circuits, energy: light, sound, motion• Project: building an electric game board

Robots and Rockets

Explorations in Science Research (Culler)

• An intensive 9-day undergraduate workshop focused on energy and climate, taught by David Culler and Ron Cohen (Berkeley Atmospheric Science Center)

• 24 undergraduates (18 female) • Introduced to many of the ActionWebs and LoCal

projects in a hands-on manner: energy efficient buildings, wireless sensor networks, data analysis of buildings

• https://sites.google.com/site/ucbeis/

Berkeley Pioneers in Engineering (PiE)

• UC Berkeley students mentor local high school students in a robotics competition, organized by PiE

• eg. a game:– Get as many tennis balls into a certain area of the arena,

with an opponent that is trying to do the same thing– Large number of high school women

• https://pioneers.berkeley.edu/ • ActionWebs provided support for 10 high school

students• Shankar Sastry and Claire Tomlin participated in 2011

(Wozniak) and 2012 (Lawrence Hall of Science)

NSF SUPERB and CS Kickstart

• NSF SUPERB (NSF REU Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley)– Several students have participated– Virginia (Ginger) Smith participated during Summer 2011

and has returned to Berkeley this Fall to start graduate school

– http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Programs/ugrad/superb/superb.html

• CS Kickstart– Contacts all incoming women undergraduates at Berkeley,

interested in CS– A one week program of projects, lectures, talks, fun events– 2011, 2012 (just finished last Friday)– https://sites.google.com/site/cskickstart/

Other activities

• Laney-Peralta Community College Environmental Control Technology Program

• Green Technology School within Berkeley High• Lawrence Hall of Science• BEAM (Berkeley Engineers and Mentors): http://beam.berkeley.edu/

• Berkeley Math Circle: http://mathcircle.berkeley.edu/

• Berkeley School of Education:• http://www-gse.berkeley.edu/academic.html