STEM Ed Announcement: Transportation Summer Institute for HS students

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

This is a UMass program.
Contact information is below.
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Summer Transportation Institute for HS students
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The Summer Transportation Institute (STI) at UMass Amherst is
sponsored by the Federal Highway Department and the Massachusetts
Department 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 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 wishing to apply should visit the
program website at www.cee.umass.edu/sti or feel free to contact Dr.
Michael Knodler or Katrina Hecimovic 
in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at
UMass-Amherst via email at mknodler@ecs.umass.edu.