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Advanced Manufacturing and Prototyping Integrated To Unlock Potential (AMP-IT-UP)
Advanced Manufacturing and Prototyping Integrated to Unlock Potential (AMP-IT-UP) is a partnership between the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) and the Griffin-Spalding County School System (GSCS) that focuses on grades six through nine. In this project, students in these middle grades explore their creativity in STEM Innovation and Design (STEM-ID) courses, using rapid prototyping equipment located on GSCS campuses. Students become inspired and drawn into the study of STEM as they watch their creations become reality.

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The Impact of a Middle School Engineering Course on Students’ Academic Achievement and Non-Cognitive Skills
"Engineering and integrated STEM experiences are being promoted at the K-12 level to increase interest and retention in STEM and to reinforce learning of mathematics and science content. However, research…
AMP-IT-UP Manufacturing Mathematics
Watch Video >> Advanced Manufacturing and Prototyping Integrated to Unlock Potential (AMP-IT-UP) is a NSF Math and Science Partnership to promote workforce development and to identify and cultivate the next…
Developing an Engineering Design Process Assessment Using Mixed Methods
"Recent reforms in science education worldwide include an emphasis on engineering design as a key component of student proficiency in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics disciplines. However, relatively little…
Developing an Engineering Design Process Assessment Using Think-Aloud Interviews
"Early exposure to engineering has been found to help students in their decision-making regarding engineering education and career pathways. Subsequently, an NSF-funded project is underway that is focused on development…
Advanced Manufacturing and Prototyping Integrated to Unlock Potential (AMP-IT-UP): An NSF Partnership to Cultivate The Next Generation of STEM Innovators
Advanced Manufacturing and Prototyping Integrated to Unlock Potential (AMP-IT-UP) is a National Science Foundation Math and Science Partnership …
The InVenture Challenge: Inspiring STEM Learning through Invention and Entrepreneurship
"The InVenture Challenge seeks to bring design, engineering, invention, and entrepreneurship to K-12 education by providing a framework, curriculum, and competition that can be used by teachers in different disciplines…
High School Engineering Class: From Wood Shop to Advanced Manufacturing
Posted by: Marion Usselman . The maker movements, a general term for the rise of inventing, designing, and tinkering, and the addition of engineering standards to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) have spawned a…
Advanced Manufacturing & Prototyping Integrated to Unlock Potential (AMP-IT-UP) Curriculum Highlight Featuring Middle School "STEM Innovation and Design" Course
This video highlights a middle school engineering and technology course sequence that promotes the engineering design process, …
Analyzing K-12 Education as a Complex System
"Schools and school districts are complex, dynamic systems affected by numerous factors, specific to the particular environment. These factors, which range from the stability of the home life of the…
Students Practice Hands-on STEM Activities To Define Problems And Determine Solutions
"In Georgia, young students often feel disconnected from the real world when studying math and science, a perception that poses serious challenges to the state's future economic and workforce development,…