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Students participating in APEGA Outreach are learning that innovation is a mentality. Regardless of the project, we pair students with mentors who will teach them how to succeed and work in teams. By tackling challenges alongside female and male Professional Engineers and Professional Geoscientists, students learn firsthand how they, like their mentors, can have an impact in the APEGA professions. The freedom to experiment and potentially fail is critical. APEGA Outreach teams up with professionals to guide and mentor students, but ultimately our goal is not to give right and wrong answers. Rather, we want to unearth passions for: • engineering and geoscience • the process of discovery • turning ideas into useful things that improve lives
PUTTING IT ALL INTO PRACTICE
APEGA’s new approach to outreach will be reflected in changes that Members, educators, and students see in the 2016 APEGA Science Olympics. APEGA prides itself on providing a fun yet challenging atmosphere for students in grades 1 to 12 to put their skills to the test while learning to work as a team. Some changes were already incorporated in 2015, so the reputation of the APEGA
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Science Olympics for spurring students towards creative thinking will only grow. Significant changes are being made to the way the science olympics will be judged in 2016. In the past, there have been two factors that determine the final ranking of a team: its ability and the ability of the other teams. If a team wanted to win gold, its members would need to create not only an incredible project but also one that was better than all the rest. Certainly, competition will be a big part of their futures. But at this stage, we think there’s a better message to send students. We don’t want our outreach participants fearing that they’ll be overshadowed. We want them to focus on developing the best projects they possibly can — while also being able to appreciate
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WISEST extends a special thanks to APEGA for their partnership and support of the tournament
9 TH Annual Golf Tournament & Silent Auction
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