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Teams of students designed a robot and worked with five other teams to complete a task. Mark Wallace (back, center), IT
supervisor, and Matt Garrera (right), technology education teacher, look on and assist when needed.

up an initial conference call with five
people including engineers from Spain
and Philadelphia, and they helped
him right away with the course name,
agreeing that "Women in Engineering"
was great. He had a list of questions
and got their input. Wallace wrote the
curriculum, designed the course, and

shared it with the 50 volunteers, who
provided input.
"This was helpful because their input
was from their own engineering viewpoint, not an educator's viewpoint," Wallace says. They suggested what to teach
first and second, and he pilot tested all of
their comments in the first year. Wallace

adds that he made adjustments in subsequent years and has kept making them
ever since.

Class Advantages
The class covers an introduction to
problem solving, design, critical thinking, teamwork, documentation, and

The 2016-2017 Women in Engineering students with (from left) current teacher Matt Garrera and program creator Mark Wallace.

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