STEM Ed Announcement: UMass Summer Transportation Institute

[Morton Sternheim <mort@k12s.phast.umass.edu>]

This is not a STEM Education Instite event.
For more information, see the contact information below.
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The Summer Transportation Institute (STI) at UMass Amherst is sponsored 
by the Federal Highway Department and the Massachusetts Executive Office 
of Transportation & Public Works, and is designed to expose rising 8th, 
9th, 10th, and 11th graders to the field of transportation.   

We are actively recruiting students for this summer and hope that it may 
be of some interest to your current students. The program is Federally 
funded so there is no cost to the students if they are accepted.

To give you some idea of what STI is the program runs Monday to Friday 
from 9:30am to 4:30pm for the from Tuesday July 6th to Friday July 30.  
We use one of the interactive classrooms in the college of engineering, 
so every student gets a new computer with a flat screen and high speed 
internet.   

UMass faculty, staff and graduate students provide lectures and lead 
discussions throughout the program on all modes of transportation, 
sustainability in transportation and careers in transportation.   

Students also participate in preparing project presentations in teams, 
and all sorts of hands on activities. We take about a half dozen field 
trips, including things like a cruise of Boston Harbor and a visit to 
the State House to see the Governor speak. We also include some purely 
recreational activities such as hiking and kayaking on the CT River.  

Interested participants or those with questions should feel free to 
contact Dr. Michael Knodler or Katrina Hecimovic in the Department of 
Civil and Environmental Engineering at UMass-Amherst via phone or email 
at 413.545.0228 or mknodler@ecs.umass.edu or katrinahecimovic@gmail.com, 
respectively.