Outreach activities

Weaving African Culture with STEM

I am working on designing programs to recruit individuals not typically represented in STEM areas. I purposely want to blend the experience and knowledge I acquired working on the African continent with my STEM background to create innovative teaching strategies to reach students in non-typical settings, i.e. using African art and culture to leverage student historical background and draw them towards STEM. With the help of 2 UROP students, I have created teaching modules to be used in classroom or after-school settings. The teaching modules include hands-on activities using weaving cards and small looms to illustrate mathematical concepts, from symmetry to fractals.

COESSING - Summer school in Physical Oceanography in Ghana

Annual leadership camp for female engineering students in Liberia - collaboration between UM SWE and LSWE

LSWE - Student SWE chapter in Liberia

Also includes an engineering education study using the framework of psychological sense of community to look at the benefits to female students in Liberia, in terms of academic performance and professional development.