MCECS Outreach/Recruitment Collaborations & Opportunities by Tong Zhang

PLANNED - STEM Exploration Day 11/25

ttz1 — 2024-10-29 03:07:51 UTC

Collaboration with other MCECS STEM depts on a no school day (Deans Office)

IDEA - PCC/PSU/local HS teacher professional learning community (PLC)

ttz1 — 2024-10-29 03:11:59 UTC

(MCECS wide collab)

PLANNED - Prospective Transfer Day - March 2025

ttz1 — 2024-10-29 03:13:02 UTC

Collab with Dean's Office & all units

IDEA - Map MCECS related STEM interventions to regional schools

ttz1 — 2024-10-29 03:14:39 UTC

ex CS for Oregon, PMSP, MESA

CURRENT - MCECS Group Visit Form

ttz1 — 2024-10-29 03:15:55 UTC

PLANNED - partnership with PPS Career Technical Education

ttz1 — 2024-10-29 03:18:14 UTC

to map CTE programs to engineering & computer jobs via industry partnerships

PLANNED - Industry aligned modules for different audiences

ttz1 — 2024-10-29 20:30:15 UTC

semiconductors (created), need ones for clean energy, AI, cybersecurity, geotech, biomedical engineers, etc

AVID Program leaders, Guidance Counselors, College Coordinators at area HSs

2024-10-29 22:06:47 UTC

create touchpoints with these groups, get face time with them, bring PSU Maseeh to their vocab when talking to students about college possibilities for Eng/CS

Working on Research Experience for Teachers (RET) NSF proposal...

2024-10-29 22:07:23 UTC

IDEA - Bring back Engineering Discovery Showcase?

2024-10-29 22:22:59 UTC

Build pipelines (with incentives) for HS students who do internships at PSU (e.g., through Saturday Academy)

2024-10-29 22:23:03 UTC

IDEA: An AI institute summer program

2024-10-29 22:25:40 UTC

Invention bootcamp like program for students to apply AI to different areas in engineering

Benefit from the new PCC-PSU semiconductor collaboration MOU that was signed by both presidents recently

2024-10-29 22:27:15 UTC

IDEA - open up EPL lab to drop off

ttz1 — 2024-10-29 22:28:33 UTC

open up information (email Ed & EPL)

Better work the "parent network." Parents need to know that PSU exists and that we do cool stuff. Offer weekend or evening tours for parents?

2024-10-29 22:31:15 UTC

IDEA - how do we do direct admits

ttz1 — 2024-10-29 22:31:52 UTC

for freshmen engineering

IDEA - how do we give scholarships to First Robotics

ttz1 — 2024-10-29 22:32:29 UTC

IDEA - Bringing HS Teachers/Guidance Counselors to MCECS

2024-10-29 22:32:49 UTC

IDEA - PSU CS students visit HS

2024-10-29 22:32:50 UTC

Visit classrooms at HS and give short presentation/lesson in coding - bringing PSU CS students for peer support and outreach.

PLANNED - College Exploration Day

2024-10-29 22:35:02 UTC

Saturday, Dec. 7th at MCECS. Will involve college prep workshops, MCECS tours, and college admissions folks tabling. Note that it will happen at PSU but we will invite a few other colleges to table. Attendees will be students and their parents since it is on a weekend. We are expecting around 75-100 attendees.

PLANNED - MESA Day

2024-10-29 22:37:08 UTC

Friday, May 16, 2025 - 600+ students from all over Oregon will come to PSU for a full day of engineering challenges, invention showcasing, college fair and campus tours. In the past we have done general campus tours but we could instead direct tours toward MCECS, particularly for the sophomores and juniors

IDEA - senior inquiry for unst

ttz1 — 2024-10-29 22:37:58 UTC

for high priority schools

IDEA - HS Visits for students unsure about college

2024-10-29 22:38:52 UTC

Sharing career options, bringing in current students, etc

IDEA - Connecting with OMSI to meet with students

2024-10-29 22:40:27 UTC

IDEA - Current Student Survey

2024-10-29 22:40:38 UTC

Maybe survey current freshman CS students and ask why they chose a CS major. How did they learn about CS in high school?

IDEA - MESA chapter meeting takeovers by MCECS students

2024-10-29 22:40:42 UTC

MESA is a pre-college engineering program serving middle and high school students across the state. They meet weekly after school. MESA can provide MCECS staff who are interested in having current MCECS students "take over" one of the weekly chapter meetings to engage students in fun activities to get them excited about exploring PSU

IDEA - Ask Freshman in CS/Engineering Why PSU?

2024-10-29 22:41:42 UTC

MME direct admit

ttz1 — 2024-10-29 22:41:56 UTC

for PCC

ALREADY EXISTS - MESA Alumni Scholarship

2024-10-29 22:41:58 UTC

MESA alumni are eligible for the MESA scholarship at PSU (I do not think the scholarship is limited to MCECS though)

IDEA - connecting with HS students taking college level coursework at PCC

2024-10-29 22:42:57 UTC

There are a number of HS students taking calculus and other college courses at PCC in preparation for college

IDEA - Patterns Physics - seed Engineering into curriculum

ttz1 — 2024-10-29 22:48:08 UTC

IDEA - MESA automatic admissions? Early Decision

2024-10-29 22:48:52 UTC

IDEA - explore math requirements

ttz1 — 2024-10-29 22:50:08 UTC

ccs are concerned about math lower requirements

IDEA - Piggyback on Admissions HS visit days to add a visit to MCECS as part of the day's programming. There could be tours and a panel of current students, for example.

2024-10-29 23:02:42 UTC

IDEA - central hub; calendar; outreach calendar; central resources, orientation seamless , on script with each other,

ttz1 — 2024-10-29 23:11:35 UTC

IDEA - offer PSU specific program

ttz1 — 2024-10-29 23:18:08 UTC

idea from Diane - like the OSU direct program from ecology

IDEA - Streamline experience for orientation

ttz1 — 2024-10-29 23:18:42 UTC

make it seamless from students perspective