Equipped with cutting edge technology, the STEM Explorer vehicle will make over 120 visits to Great Lakes Bay Region middle and high schools. It will also work with thousands of community members at local events each year.
Multiple stakeholders came together to discuss the creation and implementation of the new STEM Explorer project.
Great Lakes Bay area teachers and business professionals came in to participate in workshops designed to help determine how the STEM Explorer could be best implemented in local middle schools and high schools.
Teams of Delta and K-12 faculty came together to define the modules that would be used on the STEM Explorer vehicle. The hiring committee set out to find a STEM Explorer coordinator. The job was defined, posted, and the search began.
Various faculty within the Delta College STEM divisions were identified to lead development of various modules. Equipment for the STEM Explorer was determined and ordered. The search for the coordinator continued.
The manufacturer of the STEM Explorer vehicle was identified and the ordering and assembly of the vehicle gets underway. The interviews take place for the new STEM Explorer Coordinator.
Delta College hires Nathan Elder as the new STEM Explorer Coordinator. The coordinator begins the process of updating the STEM and STEM Explorer websites. The teams continue to develop and build the middle ("Surface Exploration") and high school ("Deep Dive") modules.
Design teams present preliminary ideas to the STEM Explorer Coordinator for review. Delta College division chairs briefed on the progress of the STEM Explorer program.
During this time the curriculum for the modules will be finalized. Creation of the curriculum will be a team effort. Those involved will be the STEM Explorer Coordinator as well as the design teams (K-12 + Delta faculty).
All modules will be built in preparation for the delivery and outfitting of the STEM Explorer vehicle in December.
The STEM Explorer vehicle will arrive from the manufacturer. The vehicle will be outfitted with state-of-the-art technology to help it accomplish its on of a kind purpose. The STEM Explorer social media pages will go online for the first time.
The STEM Explorer Coordinator ,the Director of The STEM Talent Intitute, and the Technical Trades and Manufacturing division chair will test the modules and equipment on the STEM Explorer vehicle. This is in preparation for pilot visits in March.
The STEM Explorer will make numerous pilot visits to schools in the Great Lakes Bay Region. The vehicle might also travel to local events during this "break-in" period. The goal is to determine what kinds of adjustments or modifications need to be made before the vehicle rolls out full-time in August.
Modifications to the STEM Explorer vehicle and modules will be made based upon what was learned in the pilot visits.
Teachers and other school personnel interested in becoming part of the STEM Explorer projects will be provided with professional development courses at Delta. One of the goals will be to provide guidance to school educators on what they can do to prepare their students for the STEM Explorer visits.
The STEM Explorer program will begin its "Surface Explorations" with middle schools and its "Deep Dive" projects with high schools.
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