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IEEE Member/Engineer

How Do I Get Started?

• Get involved in your IEEE Section

• Approach your school to become involved

• Partner with teachers to hold a program or project

• Refer teachers to our teachers resource page

• Get engineering literature for teachers and students you might find useful

Participate in a Precollege Program

Provided below are a few examples of programs to participate in:

• Judge a science fair

• Start a science fair in your school

• Start an Engineering Club in your school

How Do I Get Funding for Precollege Activities?

• Ask your Section to fund the activity.
  Many of these programs and projects are relatively inexpensive and are often funded entirely by a Section.

• Get matching funds from your Region.
  Since precollege activities are considered to be a PACE (or professional) activity, additional funding may be available from your IEEE Region through PACE funding. Ask your Section to complete a PACE Project Funding Request Form and submit to the appropriate person(s) listed on the form. 

• Get matching funds from the IEEE-USA PEC Teacher Reward/Grant Program.
  If your Section is working/partnering with a precollege teacher to implement a unique program or project, additional funds may be requested from IEEE-USA’s Precollege Education Committee (PEC) through the Teacher Reward/Grant Program.

What If I Have More Questions or Need Help?

If you have any additional questions, please contact your Regional Precollege Education Committee Representative.

Section

How Do I Get Involved With My Section? 

Contact Your Section Precollege Representative

• Find Your IEEE Region

IEEE Regions are determined geographically. The U.S. is within Regions 1-6. Click on the link to find out to which Region you belong.

• Find your IEEE Section Precollege Representative
  Sections are geographic units within Regions.  Click on your Region's link and find your Section.  Then click on your Section's web site to find your Section Precollege Representative, latest Section news and activities, etc. 

• If you can not find your Section, please contact your Regional Precollege Education Committee Representative.
  
  
• If there is no Section Precollege Representative, work with your Section PACE Chair and/or the Section Chair. If you are a Section PACE Chair, or a Section Chair, you may want to appoint someone as the Section Precollege Representative.
  
  

Get Your Section Involved with Precollege Activities/Projects/Programs

Provided below are a few programs in which your Section may be able to participate:

• IEEE-USA Teacher Reward/Grant Program
  Partner with teachers to put on a program or project.

• IEEE Teacher In-Service Program
  Work with teachers and participate in "in-service" days to teach how to implement various engineering related lesson plans in classrooms. Each lesson is tied to education standards, and includes teacher summaries, student worksheets, and activities.

• Future City Competition
  The mission of the National Engineers Week Future City Competition is to provide a fun and exciting educational engineering program for seventh- and eighth-grade students that combines a stimulating engineering challenge with a "hands-on" application to present their vision of a city of the future.

• JETS Competitions
  Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS) National Engineering Design Challenge is a real world challenge, for high school students, to help people with disabilities enter or advance in the workplace. JETS TEAMS is an annual national competition for high school students with an interest in math, science, and engineering applications.

• TechXplore
  TechXplore is a high - impact education program and competition that connects teams of students with technology professionals from electronics, telecommunications, and high-tech companies to explore the world of technology.

• FIRST Robotics
  FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is a unique varsity sport of the mind designed to help high-school-aged young people discover how interesting and rewarding the life of engineers and researchers can be. There are other FIRST competitions as well such as FIRST LEGO League.

• BEST Robotics
  BEST is a non-profit, volunteer organization whose mission is to inspire students to pursue careers in engineering, science, and technology through participation in a sports-like, science- and engineering-based robotics competition.

• MATHCOUNTS
  MATHCOUNTS® is a national math enrichment, coaching and competition program that promotes middle school mathematics achievement in every U.S. state and territory.

How Do I Get Funding for Precollege Activities?

• Ask your Section to fund the activity.
  Many of these programs and projects are relatively inexpensive and are often funded entirely by a Section.

• Get matching funds from your Region.
  Since precollege activities are considered to be a PACE (or professional) activity, additional funding may be available from your IEEE Region through PACE funding. Ask your Section to complete a PACE Project Funding Request Form and submit to the appropriate person(s) listed on the form. 

• Get matching funds from the IEEE-USA PEC Teacher Reward/Grant Program.
  If your Section is working/partnering with a precollege teacher to implement a unique program or project, additional funds may be requested from IEEE-USA’s Precollege Education Committee (PEC) through the Teacher Reward/Grant Program.

What If I Have More Questions or Need Help?

If you have any additional questions, please contact your Regional Precollege Education Committee Representative.

Updated: 15 May 2007
Contact: Sandra Kim, sandra.kim@ieee.org