University of Maine Upward Bound Math Science
Channel: UMaine Upward Bound Math Science
Date: 19/03/2014

Each summer UBMS students work in groups of 5-7 students, led by a Group Facilitator. As part of the program they participate in a Group Design Project, during which they take part in innovative, invention-based STEM inquiry and group work grounded in current scientific problems presented by University of Maine graduate students and faculty. Scientific field experiences and short lectures with professors and graduate help students to identify problems scientists have encountered in their work. Students then work with the University of Maine Foster Center for Student Innovations, where they vet their favorite ideas, choosing the most interesting problems to tackle and generating ideas for possible solutions to these problems. Groups develop "works like" or "looks like" models of their inventions and presented their work in the form of a short paper