EAST BAY NSBE JR CHAPTER
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Mission Statement
NSBE is a pipeline to engineering for under served and low income at-risk, high achieving minority K-12 scholars.
About This Cause
East Bay NSBE STEM & Robotics' mission is to increase the number of culturally responsible minority engineers and scientists who excel academically, succeed professionally, and positively impact the community. The vision is to establish itself as an incubator for our youth, where they can receive nurturing, mentoring, and guidance in their academic careers. We encourage under-resourced, underrepresented, motivated, pre-college students and their families to have a more positive attitude toward academic excellence, with interest in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) Education Program disciplines. Our mentor-based hands-on STEM workshops and tutoring are held 9:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. at Pittsburg High School Computer Labs, 20 Saturdays during the school year. We collaborate with National Girls Collaborative Project – CalGIRLs Lawrence Hall of Science for professional development, Black Girls Code a hands-on computer science program for girls to learn how to program; Contra Costa County Supervisor Glover’s Youth Summit for recruiting new students, Pittsburg Unified School District which, in August 2007, passed a resolution granting use of Pittsburg High’s computer labs; additionally, we collaborate with Contra Costa County Office of Workforce Development for job training, California Alliance of African American Educators who provide teachers and offer summer science and engineering camps, Young Scholars Program that offers College Tours, Diablo Valley College Summer Engineering Week for high school students, UC Berkeley School of Engineering Black Engineering & Science Students who volunteer as mentors and tutors East County Boys and Girls Club and Concord Community Youth Center for recruiting new students. We have ongoing efforts to secure new sources of funding through Guidestar.com, and we provide consistent, relevant and updated progress reports to our funders and individual donors several times during the program year and a final report. Since 2005, we have realized 100% high school graduation rates, 100% college, university or technical school going rates, and currently have over 2900 students who have matriculated through our program into colleges, universities and technical schools across the country and 379 that have successfully graduated college and of that number of graduates, 190 received undergraduate degrees in one of the STEM disciplines. Under the strict guidance of teachers, engineers, volunteers, technical and scientific professionals, eager students are taught how to use scientific inquiry to solve problems, with a ratio of (1) one coach/mentor per ten (10) students, about 35 people, including staff, engineers, scientists, teachers, volunteers and technical professionals, who administer our programs. Participants learn to build mobile apps, webpage design and games utilizing software curricula such as CodePop. Another project is Kid Wind, a comprehensive interdisciplinary wind energy curriculum, developed with Normandeau Associates for middle and high school students. East Bay NSBE evaluations and assessments use the SMART measures to inform our Program modules and we divide them into three stages: baseline assessment, formative assessment, and summative assessment. We utilize baseline assessment that establishes the "starting point" of the student's understanding. Formative assessment provides information to help guide the instruction throughout the unit, and summative assessment informs both the student and the coach about the level of conceptual understanding and performance capabilities that the student has achieved. Outcomes for the 1,500 annual participants in our STEM workshops: • 85% will increase their grade point average (GPA) by at least one-half point (e.g., on a scale of 4.0 a student with a 2.5 GPA would improve his/her GPA by .50 to 3.0 GPA); • 60% will enroll in advanced math, science, and language arts classes; • 95% will increase their basic math skills; • 95% will increase their writing skills; • 100% will advance to the next grade level; • 100% will pass the California High School Exit Exam; • 100% will graduate high school; and • 100% will enroll in college, university or technical school. Kid Wind Concepts • Explore energy transformations (Design, build, and evaluate devices that convert one form of energy into another form of energy) • Understand renewable Energy • Learn about circuits, electricity, and magnetism • Understand the relationship between energy and forces • Understand the relationship between forces and motion • Understand angles • Explore concepts of lift, drag, and torque • Develop and use physical models • Understand differences between energy and power • Design controlled experiments • Optimize designs • Analyze data Broader gains will be that students will: • Learn how to learn (identify different ways to study and capture notes); • Gain greater knowledge of past and present engineering giants; • Develop better written, presentation, and oral communication skills; • Develop a more positive self-image; and • Be exposed to positive images of engineers. CORE PROGRAMS AND SERVICES The program is the effort to promote college, academics, technology, and leadership to under served, underrepresented girls and 3rd-12th grade students. Our primary focus is to encourage interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). During Saturday workshops, students receive math tutoring with online access to websites and tutorials for skill building, tests, assessments and periodic quizzes that gauge student progression. Our key initiatives include Kid Zone Competition (KZC) a curriculum for grades K-5; Kid Wind, a comprehensive interdisciplinary wind energy curriculum, developed with Normandeau Associates for middle and high school students. Lessons have inquiry-based introductions and hands-on activities to develop analytical skills; MathCounts© Competition a curriculum designed by engineers at Raytheon for grades 6-8th;Try-Math-A-Lon (TMAL) Competition for 9-12th grade; and Contra Costa County Intel Science and Engineering Fair for grades 7-12. The program for which we are seeking funding is our math tutoring and STEM & Robotics programs for 350 students, a series of fall and spring, (20 weeks total), 5½ hour workshops where students assume roles as mechanical, software, electrical, and/or industrial engineer and to support the Science and Engineering Fair. Upon completion of the engineering design project, and PowerPoint documentation, teams will exhibit and/or compete with their designs at a Northern California First Lego League Regional Competition (FLL), NSBE Fall Regional Conference (FRC), and NSBE National Convention (Nationals) and the Intel Science and Engineering Fair where participants will showcase at the Fair held in March of each year. The program distinction is that the math and science tutoring available to this group is very costly averaging upwards of $125 per month, for example, at Kumon© a private tutoring entity. These students cannot afford to pay for tutoring, so we offer one-on-one tutoring in math, science, and language arts, as part of the weekly curriculum. Other programs such as UC Berkeley and Stanford Summer Lego EV3 Robotics Programs charge $349 a weekend, $799-$2,249 per week per student. Our facilitators receive their training from SAE International, engineering departments at universities such as Tufts, Oregon State University ROBOTC, Brandeis and Carnegie Mellon. NEED, PROBLEM AND OPPORTUNITY ADDRESSED The services and activities we provide are based on needs as documented by the State of California Department of Education for Ethnicity for Economically Disadvantaged, African American 2nd – 11th graders. In each category, Language Arts, Mathematics, Algebra, Geometry, Chemistry, Physics, Health Science, and Biology, African American students scored far below or below their grade averages. These are grim statistics and we address these issues with the implementation of our core STEM programs. There is also a 39% dropout rate amongst high school students and our programs address that problem as well by engaging parents in our programs. Results of testing from 2014-2018, African American students were performing at a proficiency rate of 16% in 2015, 16% in 2019, 20% in 2020, and 22% in 2021. In comparison with other students by subgroup show proficiency rates of American Indian or Alaskan Native students scored at 35%, 34%, 38%, 40%, 40%, and 42% in those same years; Asian students scored 71%, 70%, 73%, 76%, 76%, and 77% in those same years. Filipino students scored 46%, 46%, 52%, 55%, 55%, and 58 that shows a marked increase for these groups and groups to follow: Hispanic or Latino students scored at proficiency rates of only 29%, 29%, 33%, 36%, 36%, and 38% during those same years. Pacific Islanders scored at 37%, 36%, 40%, 43%, 44%, and 46% in those same years; Whites scored at 51%, 50%. 54%, 57%, 56%, and 58% in those same years.