Engineer's Week STEM Outreach Challenge

Can engineers around the world volunteer one million hours of their time to support science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education from now through December 2009? Will Knox County Area (Knox and adjoining counties) engineers and scientists participate? That's what Engineers Week and Vols4STEM want to find out.

To quantify Engineers Week's global outreach to support STEM education, Engineers Week and NSPE have launched a "One Million Hours Initiative" and need your help. At http://www.eweek.org/ , engineers can log the volunteer hours they've contributed to outreach activities.

Examples of activities include the following:

1. Visit a classroom
2. Participate in an extracurricular or community activity (the STEM Resource Guide lists many such activities in Knox County)
3. Volunteer as a moderator, timekeeper, scorekeeper, or judge at the Tennessee Science Bowl
4. Volunteer to judge at the Southern Appalachian Science and Engineering Fair
   
5. Volunteer for the National Engineers Week Future City Competition
6. Host a Design Squad event
7. Introduce a "Girl to Engineering"
8. Help with EWeek's National Family Day
9. Attend or volunteer at a career fair
10. Participating in programs like MATHCOUNTS , JETS , robotics competitions, or any other student design or engineering-related competitions.

Now through December 31, 2009, be sure to log in and track your hours at http://www.eweek.org/ .

This website sports a new, improved easy-to-use volunteer sign-up form and has a nifty one-minute video clip showing some of last year's festivities. Check it out!