Collab Lab 42: Learn Deep Fellows – Water Projects
WE Energies STEM Center at MSOE 1444 North Water Street, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesWhat if students could collaborate across schools to explore issues around sustainable, equitable access to water with a Milwaukee focus? This summer our first cohort of Learn Deep Fellows came together with the support of community partners to design a
Collab Lab 43: Prototyping and Testing Ideas
WE Energies STEM Center at MSOE 1444 North Water Street, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesWhat if students saw prototypes not as just a model of their solution, but as a way to understand the problem they are trying to solve? Too often we see students fixate on a single solution without taking the time
Collab Lab 44: Working with community partners
WE Energies STEM Center at MSOE 1444 North Water Street, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesHow can we work with community partners not just to give our students a richer set of experiences, but to help further partners' goals? Sustainable engagement with community partners requires not just that students benefit from that engagement, but that
Collab Lab 45: The student experience on real world projects
WE Energies STEM Center at MSOE 1444 North Water Street, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesWhat do we want students to get out of real world projects? Engaging students in real world projects creates opportunities to connect with students' passions, build connections to the broader community, and for students to see that they can have
Collab Lab 46: Connecting Projects Across Grade Levels
WE Energies STEM Center at MSOE 1444 North Water Street, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesWhat if students collaborated across grade levels to take on a real world challenge? In the real world, major projects require the collaboration of multiple teams across a rage of disciplines and depend on the ability of individuals with varied
Collab Lab 47: The Fellows Experience – What We’ve Learned
WE Energies STEM Center at MSOE 1444 North Water Street, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe first year of our Fellows Program is wrapping up. What have we learned along the way? Focus As we near the end of the first year of our Fellows Program, it's time to reflect on what we've learned so
Collab Lab 48: Fellows Celebration!
WE Energies STEM Center at MSOE 1444 North Water Street, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesWhat opportunities are created for students when teachers from different schools and different districts come together with more than 40 community partners to design, implement and support community-engaged, real world projects that run within the school day? The first year
Collab Lab 49: The Role(s) of Mentors
WE Energies STEM Center at MSOE 1444 North Water Street, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesWhat becomes possible when students can see a bit of themselves in someone else? The point of community-engaged learning isn't simply to connect students and teachers to expertise. It's an opportunity for students to find inspiration in the path someone
CL49 Debrief: What Comes Next?
Zoom Meeting , United StatesWhat can we take from our discussion about the roles of mentors at Collab Lab 49 that we want to act on? Our discussion at Collab Lab 49 brought out both a lot of passion about the value successful mentor/mentee
Collab Lab 50: Community Engaged Science
WE Energies STEM Center at MSOE 1444 North Water Street, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesWhat new possibilities do students see when their work supports a broader effort? Where are there opportunities to connect the work of students to support community engaged science efforts in Milwaukee? How might this broaden students' perspectives on who does
