OKLAHOMA ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC
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Mission Statement
The Oklahoma Engineering Foundation is an organization of engineers, educators, and industry and community partners committed to furthering STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education in Oklahoma, producing STEM professionals, and employing them in Oklahoma.
About This Cause
The Oklahoma Engineering Foundation will ENGAGE students in middle and high school, ENCOURAGE collegiate students through scholarships, and EMPOWER those students to succeed in STEM careers due to partnerships with industry and community leaders. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: The Future City competition focuses on the complete infrastructure needed to support a modern society. Aviation is component of a viable community and this is explored through design and modern technologies. Software is used to design a city and evaluate its health. We sponsor the Future City Competition through funding, volunteer support, and administrative assistance to the program coordinator. This competition is geared towards 7th and 8th grade students and encourages designing and building a futuristic city using SimCity 4 software and creating a scale model. Infrastructure and systems needed to support a viable future city include renewable energy, communication, transportation, and other vital city services. The students complete a multi-step competition that includes their computer design, abstract and essay, scale model, and oral presentation. The winner of the Oklahoma contest goes on to compete in the national competition. Participation in this program: 15 school teams from across Oklahoma. Three students present for the team, although up to 12 may participate in the team. Schools may have multiple teams. ENGINEERING: The OEF Engineering Fair introduces students to the world of engineering, project management, innovation, and robotics…all fundamental elements of an aviation education. Through seven (potentially more, if we can procure the sponsors) unique competitions, students are given the opportunity to build, create, innovate, and engineer projects—putting hands-on experiences within their grasps. Fair contests are: Bridge Building (building a bridge from toothpicks and glue and load testing it to see how much pressure it with withstand), Eiffel Tower Contest, (building an Eiffel Tower out of plastic drinking straws), Ping Pong Ball Launcher, Rubber Band Powered Vehicle, and Wacky Wonder Works (designing and building a complicated multi-step machine to do a simple task). OEF hosts and underwrites the entire event, including museum admittance, curriculum, materials, travel reimbursements (if funding allows), and awards. MATHEMATICS The Oklahoma MATHCOUNTS program offers advanced mathematical education through free curriculum offered to all middle schools statewide via the MATHCOUNTS Math Club in a Box. Math is the root of all STEM disciplines and is crucial to a successful aviation education and careers in the aviation industry. MATHCOUNTS gives students foundational skills for problem solving and designing aviation systems of the future. Students are rewarded for their individual and school team accomplishments. OEF’s MATHCOUNTS program is geared to 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students across Oklahoma. The MATHCOUNTS program is a national program started by the National Society of Professional Engineers and later developed into its own foundation. With the assistance of competition materials, OEF is solely responsible for the competitions within Oklahoma. This program gives academic students a chance to demonstrate their math skills and become “mathletes” within the competition series. Each school is allowed one official team of four students and up to six additional individual competitors for their designated regional competition. Students compete in several rounds of mathematic word problems using everyday situations. To determine the individual rankings for the competition, the top 10 students are chosen to compete in a Countdown Round where students face each other one-on-one to see who can answer the most questions correctly, having 45 seconds per question. The winning teams in the regional competition and the top four individual participants, from a non-winning team, advance to the state competition. The state competition follows the same format as the regional competition with the exception that the top four individual participants (not team) go to the national competition. Additionally, individual mathletes who score well on the written exams and during the Countdown Round also have a chance to advance to state if there is space to accommodate them at the designated State Competition venue. In 2015, OEF was able to offer at least two additional high performing students from each region the opportunity to attend the State Competition in an effort to provide additional learning opportunities and competition among all advancing mathletes. Engineering Oklahoma…one student at a time