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Middle School Career Day

Presented by the College of Engineering, Technology, and Computer Science
Faculty coordinator:
Associate Professor Elizabeth Thompson, Ph.D., Department of Engineering

Middle School Career Day is geared toward middle school students and is structured to provide exposure to a wide variety of engineering, technology, and computer science disciplines. Presentations are provided by IPFW faculty and/or IPFW students and vary from year to year, subject to availability.  “Hands-on” activities or demonstrations are a key part of each session and a study trip worksheet for students will be provided. Topics of past presentations have included demonstrations on astronomical imaging, surveying, bridge building, circuit design, robotics, digital signal processing, the wind tunnel, stress visualization, and computer languages.

Dates: Friday, October 2 and October 23, 2009 from 9:30 AM -12:30 PM . These two dates have identical sessions. A snow date has been set for Nov. 6 in the event of cancellation.
BOTH SESSIONS ARE FULL, with a waiting list.

Where: Check-in takes place in Neff Hall room 101. Groups then walk to the College of Engineering, Technology, and Computer Science building for the sessions. All registered students will be divided into smaller groups and each group is rotated through various technical sessions on 15-20 minute intervals. 

Cost: FREE

Due to campus construction, lunch space is limited and will be subject to availability.

For students and teachers who wish to stay to eat lunch, pizza and soda pop is available by PRE-ORDERING. Pre-orders are done on the registration form. Pizza (cheese or pepperoni) cost -$7.25 each; Soda .50 each.

Registration:
Begins September 11 on a first come, first serve basis and will remain open until each session is full (200 students). In order to allow a variety of schools to participate, registration is limited to 55 students per school with an adequate number of chaperones (recommend one adult=10 students) to accompany the students once they are grouped for the rotations. All registrations must be placed using the registration form. Phone reservations will not be taken. For registration info contact Randi at (260) 481-4145 or email boydrs@ipfw.edu.
Both sessions are full, with a waiting list.

2009 Photos
Program guide from 3.27.09

See Career Day brochure
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College of Engineering, Technology, and Computer Science
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Carol Dostal, Director of Outreach 260.481.6905 email dostalc@ipfw.edu