Essay Contest / The essay contest is designed to encourage youth to contemplate their future in a career of math, science, or related technology field. One essay question is generated for each educational level (i.e. middle school and high school). For consideration, an essay must be turned in before the established deadline. Once essays are received, select members from the scholastic community or NSBE-AE judge the essays. First and second place winners, from each educational level, are awarded savings bonds. / Sept - Dec
Try Math-a-Lon / This contest reflects NSBE-AE’s stated goal of providing encouragement, motivation and incentive for high school juniors and seniors to sharpen their interest and skill in mathematics, science and engineering. In addition, it exposes the student to real-life engineering problems and encourages teamwork. The “engineering contest” consists of math questions that build upon one another. The final event, a Quiz Bowl, is predominately mathematics competitions in the style of the television game show “Jeopardy”, where quick thinking and problem solving skills are proven. The goal is to see marked improvement in the math skills of the students that will allow students to score higher on standardized college admission tests and to get a head start on success in college freshman math and science courses. / Sept – Dec: Tutoring
Dec-Jan: Local/Zone
Competition
Feb 1, 2003: Regional Competition
Mar 22, 2003: National Competition
National Engineers Week / National Engineers Week program is designed to increase student and community awareness of engineering by providing interaction with engineers. The event may include hands on demonstrations, handouts, videos, and displays regarding the engineering profession. The program was established to peak interest in students to pursue engineering as a career by showing the students diversification of the field of engineering and how engineers work as teams. / Feb 16-22, 2003
African American Quiz Bowl / This program was designed to encourage young adults to learn more about African-American history and test their current knowledge through competition and teamwork. The format of the competition is similar to “Jeopardy” except it is a team competition vice an individual competition. An awards ceremony follows the competition for all participants. The competition is open to middle school and high school students and is usually one of our largest events! / Feb 22, 2003
Basketball/ Mentoring Camp / This program teaches teamwork skills as well as learning the fundamentals of the game of basketball. In addition, the mentoring portion allows coaches and NSBE-AE members to dialog with students regarding daily issues. Having this type of event within our program structure has allowed us to send our message to youth through athletics vice academics. The program is hosted and sponsored usually by joint efforts of NSBE-AE and local organizations. Local high school and/or collegiate coaches usually facilitate the basketball camp portion. / Apr/May
For more information regarding any of these programs please contact the following:
Ujima Chapter Programs Chairperson: Coolidge Hamlett
Ujima Chapter President: Robert Kestler
Nutrition Day - October 19, 2002
The seminar Know Your Nutrition: A Guide to Better Diabetes Management, presented by Debra Long, RD president of Crossworks, educates participants on how to gain control over diabetes and how the body uses food. The topics include: basics of good nutrition, carbohydrate counting (two methods), reading food labels, and keeping a food record. The American Heart Association, High Risk and Stroke Coordinator, Shantell Carter, MAEd conducts a food demo. Participants can trade in their blood glucose meter for new technology sponsored by Bayer Diagnostics. The seminar is open to the community.