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Jamie Tyson (right), Central Carolina Community College Electronics instructor and High School Cooperative Programs coordinator, and Alan Tancreti, a Connecticut high school teacher, assemble a watercraft robot during ‘An Engineering Challenge for the 21st Century,’ a Teacher’s Dissemination Program held July 12-17 at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, Conn. Twenty-four high school and community college instructors from around the nation took part in the program, which was sponsored by the Academy and a National Science Foundation grant to Connecticut Community Colleges’ College of Technology and Next Generation Regional Manufacturing Center. The instructors practiced teaching techniques to guide students in developing skills to become engineers and technicians, including problem-based robotic projects, effective teamwork, professional skills, interpersonal skills, and personal accountability. During the ‘Challenge,’ they also weighed and hoisted anchor aboard a Coast Guard tug vessel, used a ship simulator to command a vessel, beach seined, and took part in an earthquake survival simulation. 

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Jamie Tyson, Central Carolina Community College Electronics instructor and High School Cooperative Programs coordinator, uses a simulator to practice navigating a 110-foot Coast Guard Cutter assisting a nuclear submarine to port. The simulation took place during ‘An Engineering Challenge for the 21st Century,’ a Teacher’s Dissemination Program held July 12-17 at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, Conn. Only Tyson and one other person completed the simulation successfully. Twenty-four high school and community college instructors from around the nation took part in the program, which was sponsored by the Academy and a National Science Foundation grant to Connecticut Community Colleges’ College of Technology and Next Generation Regional Manufacturing Center.  The instructors practiced teaching techniques to guide students in developing skills to become engineers and technicians, including problem-based robotic projects, effective teamwork, professional skills, interpersonal skills, and personal accountability. During the ‘Challenge,’ they also weighed and hoisted anchor aboard a Coast Guard tug vessel, beach seined, took part in an earthquake survival simulation, and did robot construction of a watercraft related to Coast Guard missions.