Summer Institute
Student Summer Program
The Additive Manufacturing Summer Institute is an immersive four week summer program that will once each year from 2018 to 2020. During the month of June, students will learn about additive manufacturing and gain hands on experience while solving real world problems and helping their local community. The program leverages both an early-college model, project-based learning, and embedded an embedded certification to prepare students for post-secondary education and careers in manufacturing.
During 2018, 14 high school students participated in the AMSI from 9 high schools. Sixty-four percent of students identified as students of color and 14 percent of participants identified as female. Fifty percent of student participants identified as first-generation students.
Throughout the month-long program students work in teams to design and prototype assistive deceives with additive manufacturing technologies. For this project, students interviewed a community member with a mobility impairment to learn more about how an assistive device could be developed to improve their mobility and quality of life. These interviews served as the basis for each team’s design and prototype.
Additionally, throughout the program students expanded their knowledge of manufacturing through site visits and tours to area employers and colleges. Site visits included: Columbus State Community College’s Engineering Technology Labs, American Orthopedic, ROTO Exhibit Designs, Sanvik Hyperion, and The Ohio State University Center for Design and Manufacturing.
A sample outreach flyer and agenda from Year 1 can be found below:
Teacher Professional Development Program
In addition to providing immersive experiences for high school students the Additive Manufacturing Summer Institute project seeks to prepare high school teachers to design relevant and rigorous STEM-based curriculum. The program is structure for teachers who focus on STEM education and are seeking to incorporate problem-based learning and additive manufacturing fundamentals into their classrooms.
The educator professional development program incorporates two key components. A teacher-only four-week online professional development program and co-enrollment in the Additive Manufacturing Summer Institute with the high school students. The online P3 Applied teacher professional development program takes place prior to co-enrollment at the Additive Manufacturing Summer Institute. The P3 Applied framework guides the creation of content and curriculum for both the Additive Manufacturing Summer Institute and the Teacher Professional Development Program.
The AMSI projects adapts the previously piloted P3 Applied framework that has been used to teach educators about project-based learning. P3 stands for problems, projects, and products and is an application of transdisciplinary problem-based learning (TPBL). During Year 1, the project team focused on applying the P3 Applied model to additive manufacturing through the creation of a four-week online course for the teacher professional development program.
The curriculum on the online professional development courses focuses on equipping teachers with the skills needed to structure and implement project-based learning in STEM classrooms. The P3 Applied framework stresses the importance of design thinking, team collaboration, and effective communication. Taking theory to practice, P3 Applied: Additive Manufacturing, helps teachers build and deliver a program that engages students in innovation and strengthens community, business and industry partnerships.
Each week teachers complete an online module that includes: 1) watching podcasts, 2) completing extension activities which will include viewing videos and answering 2-3 discussion questions, 3) completing the corresponding deliverables, and 4) participating in a live weekly virtual discussion.
During the co-enrollment portion of the professional development program, teachers are immersed in the Additive Manufacturing Summer Institute and can begin to enhance their learning through hands-on labs and observing students’ progress, challenges, and accomplishments.
A sample outreach flyer, agenda, and program syllabus from Year 1 can be found below: