Grant helps elementary schools boost engineering enthusiasm

eSchool News: Starting this fall, elementary schools in Ames, Iowa will begin integrating engineering into classrooms to challenge students to think creatively and problem solve, with hopes of encouraging more students, especially those of underrepresented groups, to envision themselves as the engineers of the future.

“This is about talking with kids that anyone can be an engineer, and an engineer is like an inventor that has a problem to solve,” said Kari Smith, an Ames math and science teacher on special assignment.

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