2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

(Blank) is a project-based Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) program that encourages and empowers the next generation of females to pursue STEM pathways in education to a STEM career. (Blank) after-school and summer programs are designed to educate young women by providing hands-on experiential learning in robotics, programming, and research. (Blank) consists of two key programs: (Blank), designed for rising fifth to eighth graders, emphasizing in robotics through LEGOS and innovative STEM curricula, and (Blank), aimed at rising ninth to twelfth graders, focuses on independent scientific research.

Each (Blank) student explores and investigates hands-on lab experience in the science of autonomy through ground and air robotics, aiding the students in acquiring important skills essential to obtaining college-level degrees and readiness for workforce development. (Blank) equitable practices offer engineering and computer science opportunities to underserved communities predominately serving Title I schools, rural, and students from low-income areas of (Blank) addressing the lack of resources for marginalized groups.

This paper will discuss the (Blank) held during the summer of 2024 and how higher-level research technologies can be taken in by an undergraduate engineering student and then translated to a level at which high school students with no prior knowledge can understand. The ultimate goal was to have high school students understand and be able to use advanced technologies and produce results for a personal project to be presented at a symposium. To reach the goal, the students had to gain an understanding of Simulink/MATLAB software, the controls of the robotic arms, how to program the arm to follow a path, and lastly how color binary works. After the students are given all the background to the software and hardware the students then create their binary and put it into action. With the guidance of counselors and staff, the students absorb brand new information, perform their research, put into practice new skills, and ultimately produce legitimate results.

This paper will provide details about the STEM program method for implementing upper-level academic research technology into high school research summer camps.