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The research publications on Best Practices provide a comprehensive summary of community college best practices for the diversity challenge in America's STEM workforce and best practices for student achievement in two-year Hispanic-Serving Institutions
click on the link above for the publications.
The Hermanas Conference is a one-day STEM outreach program targeting middle-school and high-school Latinas. Since it's inception in 2005, over 600 students have participated in this educational and academic conference sponsored by EMCC and Intel. This collaborative effort has grown to include additional sponsors such as Qwest, IBM and Texas Instruments.
click on the link above to read more about the conference.
The ACE Capstone Leadership Project marks the completion of the participants’ involvement in ACE Math Science Scholars program and the beginning of their full-time college careers. The interdisciplinary, team-based project is designed to provide the participants with valuable experience while fulfilling a need of a local company or organization.
2005 - The following digital stories are a result of the 2005 project for the ACE Summer Bridge students in cooperation with TGEN and Healthy Avondale 2010. ( English & Spanish ). They also produced a vignette digital story that provides a biographical snapshot of each student, an overview of the NASA Center for Success in Math & Science and the Math Science Scholars program. View here.
Disclamer: To view the videos you will need Quicktime, get the latest here
2006 - A team of bridge students worked with the City of Avondale engineering department to design a map consisting of bus routes, bike lanes, pedestrian paths and points of interests. (Map front & Map back)
2007 - Two student teams completed projects. One team worked with the City of Avondale Civil Engineering department to assist with a city-wide sidewalk improvement project. The other team worked with the APS Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station to create a digital story on the science of nuclear technology and a digital story about careers in the nuclear field.
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