Resumen de The TEAK project: students as Teachers

Elizabeth Debartolo, M. Bailey

• The TEAK (Traveling Engineering Activity Kit) Project is a program that involves RIT engineering students in the design, construction, and presentation of creative tools for teaching engineering concepts to middle school students in the Rochester, New York community. The TEAK Project is unique in that the college students involved do not only teach engineering, but they create their own instructional materials, lesson plans, assessment tools, and experimental hardware. The result is that, not only do the middle school students see college engineering students as role models and benefit from the early exposure to engineering, but the RIT students involved in the project gain valuable experience as teachers of engineering.