Summer Workshops

TechREACH trains instructors to deliver summer workshops with innovative, hands-on curriculum designed to increase student interest in science, technology, engineering, and math. The workshops introduce concepts that are relevant to students today, such as animation, game programming, podcasting, and more. Activities develop and reinforce critical-thinking, problem solving, and basic academic and communications skills. Workshops last one to two weeks and are tailored to meet the needs of the instructors and students.

As part of the training, instructors receive:

• Curricula correlated to standards
• Instructor guide
• Student materials and supplies
• Warm-up activities
• Software requirements
• Evaluation tools

The club as an economic equalizer
The students in Voyager Middle School’s sixth grade club were so excited about TechREACH that they asked to present information about what they had learned to the Mukilteo School Board. They showed the Board a PowerPoint presentation highlighting the work they had done on their school Web site, the presentation they created for incoming fifth grade students, and information about how they are a major resource for school technology projects now. Afterwards, the TechREACH teachers drove a few of the girls home. When one of the girls asked to be dropped off at a particular hotel, they learned that her family was homeless and had been living from hotel to hotel.