High School Engineering Class: From Wood Shop to Advanced Manufacturing (Evaluation)

This 21-page paper, provided by Georgia Tech Research Institute, discusses a new curriculum from Georgia Tech that attempts to bring the maker movement to high school students. "The curriculum is structured around engineering standards and learning goals that reflect design and advanced manufacturing content, along with employability skills, while borrowing best practices from 'wood shop' and 'technology education' classes." This paper explores the results from the first and second year implementation of the maker-infused Advanced Manufacturing course for high school students. 

The paper includes the following sections: Abstract, Introduction, Background: The Maker Movement and High School Technology Education, Advanced Manufacturing Course Development, Assessment, Evaluation and Methodology, Sample and Data Collection, Data Sources, and more.