2018 USC Viterbi STEM-EOP Events & Programs
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Please check out STEM Educational Outreach Programs' (STEM-EOP) activities, events and programs for Spring and Summer 2018. We created this newsletter to share with our colleagues, partners and supporters. Please forgive us for any errors or omissions. We do not wish to intrude. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter, please click the "Unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the newsletter.
Darin Gray, Director
Ben Louie, Associate Director
Dr. Rochelle Urban, Associate Director
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Spring 2018 Campus Activities and Events
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LA Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM) Competition
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Students from 5 local middle schools braved a cold early December morning (okay, technically, this isn't spring, but it took place after our Fall newsletter) to participate in an advanced math competition co-hosted by USC Viterbi STEM-EOP and Dornsife Math. Students competed in individual and team rounds and were treated to a Math Talk by Dornsife Professor David Crombecque. BEAM plans to host a Math camp this summer.
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Thirty preschool students, from the USC School for Early Childhood Education, learned how to build structures and how magnets work using the Geomag structure kit during a session taught by USC Viterbi STEM-EOP staff.
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2018 FIRST Robotics Kickoff
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This year 55 teams and about 250 students, teachers, mentors, parents and coaches came to USC for the annual FIRST Robotics Kickoff. USC Viterbi STEM-EOP has been hosting the FIRST Robotics Kickoff for almost 20 years.
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After the Broadcast and Kit Distribution, nearly half of the teams stayed after to attend workshops including a Java programming workshop given by Viterbi ITP faculty. Other workshops included Game Analysis and Strategy and the Robot Design Process.
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Korean Students Spring STEM Camp
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Middle students from South Korea traveled to USC Viterbi STEM-EOP for an early Spring STEM Camp.
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Visiting the Columbia Memorial Space Museum
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Building an Arduino-Based Robot
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STEM Outreach to kids of displaced families
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USC Viterbi STEM-EOP student volunteers travel to homeless shelters, group homes and women's shelters to provide STEM activities to kids.
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Discovering Oracle Databases
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USC Viterbi STEM-EOP co-hosted a database coding workshop for high school students,"
Discovering Databases: The Muscle Behind Your Favorite Apps",
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Oracle's African-American Business Leaders for Excellence (ABLE) and STEAM:Coders.
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n preparation for the Annual MESA Day competition, USC MESA middle and high school students came to USC Viterbi to get help on their projects, test their designs and build their projects using the engineering design process.
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Troy Camp Engineering Pitch Competition
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Troy Camp, with help from USC Viterbi STEM-EOP, held workshops for middle school students to create, prototype and pitch engineering projects. An amazing time was had by all of the campers!
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Alumni from the
USC Viterbi STEM-EOP Summer Engineering Camps (Northrop Grumman @USC and ExxonMobil Bernard Harris) joined alumni from the
USC Viterbi
Institute for Engineering Community and Cultural Competence (IEC3) Summer Camp for a day of projects, fellowship and fun.
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Learning teamwork to solve a problem one way.
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Using teamwork to solve a different kind of problem.
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February 23rd
Viterbi STEM-EOP and IEC3 Joint Parent engagement workshop at the LA Clean Initiative (LACI) -
Part 1
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Parent engagement is essential for developing and maintaining student interest in STEM. Parents and students will learn about clean initiatives at LACI with a tour and a design challenge.
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February 24th
NGSS Teacher Professional Development
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A workshop open to educators who serve grades 3-12. This hands-on, collaborative learning workshop will give participants a background in the Next Gen Science Standards and meaningful ways to integrate the new ideas into the classroom.
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EngX is focused on showing and demonstrating – not just telling – why we love engineering to middle and high school students (5th – 12th grade). Activities on virtual reality, lasers, robotics, and cell-phone microscopes are planned. In addition to USC researchers and students, members of the engineering community from around Los Angeles are bringing a piece of the office with them. This year, members of USC’s ICT and JPL are also joining in the fun and bringing a lot of cutting edge tech for all to explore!
USC Viterbi STEM-EOP will host a free information session for parents. This session is from 10-11:30am.
**Only students need tickets (not parents or teachers).**
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March 3rd
SYS Youth Symposium
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The annual youth symposium co-hosted by USC Viterbi STEM-EOP features interactive workshops for students and parents focusing on healthy living, financial stability and STEM.
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March 6th
Successful Women Leaders in Sustainable Engineering and Business
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An educational day of how to integrate sustainability into daily life. The day will include a film screening and discussion, a panel of professionals in STEM and Business, hands-on activities and a tour of campus for high school students from Girls Academic Leadership Academy.
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March 6th
Girls Who Code Information Session
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USC Viterbi STEM-EOP and the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce STEM Hub will be co-hosting an information session for the Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program. The session will also include information about other summer coding programs and information about a community based Girls Who Code after school program that will be debuting in the fall.
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MESA Day is an event that engages middle and high school students in STEM-based MESA competitions to test their design skills and math acuity. MESA projects provide the groundwork for the competitions that are offered during the event.
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March 23rd
Viterbi STEM-EOP and IEC3 Joint Parent engagement workshop at the LA Clean Initiative (LACI) -
Part 2
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Using the engineering design process and rapid prototyping, parents and students will showcase their ideas from the design challenge.
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April 4th
Ten80 STEM Event
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In partnership with LA Trade Technical College, Viterbi STEM-EOP is bringing Ten80’s STEM INNOVATORS-IN-TRAINING EXPERIENCE to Los Angeles. These are 1-day events that immerse students in the process of innovation. Each year, more than 10,000 students engage in workshops focused on race engineering, coding and circuitry, UAVs, robotics, game design, CAD, project management, pitch, and leadership. They are often taking their first steps toward cultivating confidence and intellectual growth that comes from knowing how to effectively answer the hard questions, skillfully tackle challenges and create innovative solutions.
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April 9th
Australian School Visit
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USC Viterbi STEM-EOP student volunteers will team up with students from Australia's Geelong Grammar school for an exciting half-day Robotics Seminar.
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April 28th
Annual Viterbi Robotics Invitational
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The Viterbi Robotics Invitational is an annual competition that highlights the increasing role that robotics have in our everyday lives. The competition encourages interactions that leave everyone involved feeling valued with a sense of integrity and teamwork as they seek to solve the “wicked problems” facing our times such as water security, sustainability and climate change, and terrorism; as well as the Grand Engineering Challenges of advanced health informatics, restoring and improving urban infrastructure, providing access to clean water, preventing nuclear terror and engineering the tools of scientific discovery.
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May 4th - 6th
Catalina Island Science + Engineering Exploration
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his 3-day exploration serves to expose USC MESA students to STEM fields. Students design and build an underwater ROV, examine water quality, learn about Catalina geology and botany, experience marine life by snorkeling, and learn about pressure by visiting the Hyperbaric Chamber.
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May 23rd
MESA Annual Banquet
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The Annual MESA Awards Banquet recognizes outstanding MESA students and Graduating MESA seniors. MESA Advisors, teachers, parents and corporate partners are acknowledged for their support of USC MESA.
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USC Viterbi STEM-EOP and the USC Black Alumni Association are partnering with A New Day Foundation to bring the Focused N F.I.T. For A Different World program to USC. Focused N F.I.T. partners with programs and school districts throughout Southern California to identify capable students who are currently enrolled in college or are college bound, in order to provide them with a combination of motivation and information through a day-long schedule of workshops that will help them navigate their way into, through and beyond college.
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We are now accepting applications for our summer programs!
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Northrop Grumman Summer Engineering Camp @USC
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Careers in STEM July 23rd - July 27th
Stay Tuned!
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HS STEM Internship July 16th - August 10th
Stay Tuned!
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MESA is a program in USC Viterbi that serves educationally disadvantaged middle and high school STEM students by providing a pipeline of academic services. USC MESA serves over 1500 students at 30 schools and has been part of USC Viterbi for 40 years.
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Mission Science, sponsored by USC Good Neighbors, is a hands-on, minds on STEM program where elementary students learn STEM through activities, projects and experiments.
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Viterbi STEM School Partnership
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Viterbi STEM Schools Partnership is a collaboration between K-12 schools and USC Viterbi STEM-EOP that offers students authentic STEM experiences through school-based, student-led STEM clubs.
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STEM Center for Innovation and Excellence (SCIE)
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SCIE helps schools create a STEM culture through STEM entrepreneurship, support of STEM clubs and teacher professional development. Through interaction with STEM college students, faculty and professionals, students gain a unique insight into STEM careers.
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