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Every brilliant student who comes to Stanford has been guided and shaped by K-12 teachers who worked hard every day to help them reach their potential. We can't put an apple on your desk to say thank you, but the links below point to programs, research, and resources to help teachers as they bring engineering to a younger audience.

Opportunities

Camp E-DAY | View »
Every summer the School of Engineering holds Camp E-DAY (short for engineering day) where our faculty present their latest research to hundreds of kids age 10 and up. The audience is primarily composed of alumni and their families, but K-12 teachers are invited to attend at no charge (the event includes lunch). This year's theme is "Robots, Racers and Rockets." The event takes place July 12 from 10-3.

Exploring New Worlds | View »
The Stanford chapter of the Society for Women Engineers holds a marvelous event every spring called Exploring New Worlds, in which they organize demos, lessons and other fun science and engineering activities for hundreds of elementary school children.

Office of Science Outreach Programs | View »
Stanford's Office of Science Outreach provides teachers with terrific opportunities to gain first-hand experience with cutting edge research that they can then share with their students. Click above to see all the programs or go directly to pages corresponding to high school, middle school, or elementary school content.

Classroom research
Our faculty members are dedicated to their research and to nurturing their students, from undergraduate to doctoral studies, but they often get involved in helping teach the next generation of students. Below are published works involving K-12 education co-authored by engineering professors. Citations are included because institutional subscriptions may be necessary to view papers directly online.

    • Beth Pruitt ("Integration of K-12 Outreach with Design Projects in an Introductory Mechanical Engineering Course," 35th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, October 19 – 22, 2005, Indianapolis) | View (PDF)  »
    • Eric Roberts ("Sparking self-sustained learning: report on a design experiment to build technological fluency and bridge divides," International Journal of Technology and Design Education, Volume 17, Number 1 / January, 2007)| View »
    • Sherri Sheppard ("Students entering and exiting the engineering pipeline-identifying key decision points and trends," Frontiers in Education, 2002, 6-9 Nov.) | View »
    • Bob Twiggs | View »

Other resources

Engineering Pathway | View »
The Engineering Pathway is a National Science Foundation portal to high-quality teaching and learning resources in engineering, applied science and math, computer science/information technology, and engineering technology and is designed for use by K-12 and university educators and students.

Stimulating learning through simulating materials: For three summers, San Jose high school science Teacher Alfonso Garcia has spent the summer as a collaborator in the reasearch lab of mechanical engineering Professor Wei Cai. The experience has benefitted everyone, including Garcia's students. | View »

terman awards

Every year the School of Engineering honors not only the top 5 percent of its undergraduate class, but also the K-12 teachers those students nominate as the educators who were most influential in helping them achieve that success. More »