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This 7-page paper, written by Amy L. Freeman and Anita Persaud, describes the PREF Summer Bridge Program designed to increase retention and graduation rates for underrepresented minority students in engineering. The PREF program is a residential, six-week, rigorous academic summer program in which...

This tip sheet from the National Center for Accessible Media provides guidelines for creating accessible PDFs in the source document as well as Adobe Acrobat. This guide covers topics like creating document structure, exporting, running accessibility checks, and creating accessible images and alt...

This tip sheet, provided by the WGBH Educational Foundation, includes guidance on creating accessible presentations. Tips are given for before, during, and after the presentation. The following are a few examples of the included tips: Arrange for live captions. Use good color contrast and large...

This tip sheet from the National Center for Accessible Media provides guidelines for creating accessible video content. It covers the topics of captioning, writing narrative descriptions, and choosing an accessible media player. The tip sheet also offers links to additional resources for creating...

This tip sheet, created by the National Center for Accessible Media, provides guidelines for creating accessible websites. It covers the topics of headings, descriptive link text and button labels, image descriptions, colors, and more. The tip sheet also offers links to additional resources for Web...

In this video from Mentor-Connect, Pamela Silvers explores ATE grant reward abstracts. Information on where to include abstracts, what abstracts are, who creates an abstract, who is the audience for an abstract, and what to include in an abstract is highlighted. Examples and samples are provided....

This 2-page document from the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) outlines the steps to creating an actively engaged business team to provide leadership to recent technology and engineering graduates. This resource provides guidance on the following eight steps: Determine which...

This webinar, provided by the Centers Collaborative for Technical Assistance, discusses dashboards for grants development and management. In this webinar, the presenters discuss dashboard elements, informational elements vs. trends and Key Performance indicators (KPIs), creating ownership to make a...

In this 3-page activity, provided by the Unmanned Aircraft System operations Technician Education Program (UASTEP), students work with point cloud data gathered by drones and processed with photogrammetry techniques. In addition, students explore point cloud data provided by the U.S. Geological...

This video from the CyberWatch Center presents a resume writing and job interviewing tips workshop. The workshop was created by Professor Michael Burt of Prince George's Community College. The material presented here would be useful for students in a variety of disciplines. Flash is required to view...