Engineering and Math (STEM) NSF Summer

and typical students to explore STEM as a future career choice by building their confidence and efficacy in STEM, 2) develop empathy and better appreciation of diversity amongst students who would traditionally enter engineering programs and 3) develop understanding, better appreciation of diversity, and an elaborated sense of teaching and learning amongst the participants. Exciting hands-on activities based on the Society of Automotive Engineers ’ “A World in Motion”, smart balloon, civil materials, and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are designed to spark and capture the interests of participants in the STEM fields. The materials presented at the workshops will illustrate aspects of inclusive technology and engineering classroom education that will help the students succeed. The purpose of this paper is to describe, summarize the findings and assess the first year summer STEM workshop for SLD and typical middle school students. Data obtained from the participants and their parents via various surveys were used in the analysis