Partnering with industry for rigorous and engaging STEM learning Dan Robinette, Clackamas High School Greg Smith, West Salem High School Jill Hubbard, South Metro-Salem STEM Partnership
What is the SMS STEM Partnership? 15 school districts 7 higher education institutions 10 industry partners 13 community organizations Helping Oregon students to achieve STEM degrees and certificates, and increasing access, excitement and engagement of students in STEM courses and learning.
What is STEM? Integrates Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Develops communication and literacy skills. Provides authentic, real-world experiences through contextual learning Forms partnerships with business, industry, agencies, and nonprofits Provides career awareness Fosters problem-solving , critical thinking, and argumentation skills Includes instructional strategies that develop collaboration and teamwork . Uses equitable instructional practices that are inclusive t o all students Uses standards-based performance/ proficiency assessments
What Are We Doing To Help? • Oregon Connections • Create a profile – Request a Volunteer • Supports in-person (regionally) and real-time virtual (national) • Companies can offer field trips, internship opportunities, job shadows • Being piloted now. Available more broadly next school year.
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Greg Smith Teaching Background: 25 Years North Salem -> West Salem High School Computer Programming Computer Applications Math Greg Smith Computer Support smith_greg@salkeiz.k12.or.us CISCO Networking Intro to Engineering Design Robotics (FLL, FRC, FTC, VEX, VEXiQ)
STEM Projects Over the Years
Partnering with Industry to Improve Teamwork using Scrum
Where Scrum Comes in • ‘Virtual Genius’ Brother -in-law, Scrum Advocate • Scrum? • Wanted an ‘Industry’ expert to help the transition. • But… Brother -in-law lives in Denver
Partnering with Industry for Help • Challenges • Time • Finding Right Match • Who am I to ask…? • What made it work • STEM Fair summer 2014 organized by the South Metro- Salem STEM Partnership : A venue for meeting several people from industry in a short period of time • Connected with Industry Partner : Max Arbow, ADP at the time
Ideas From Industry Partner • The Principle behind Scrum: Agile Manifesto • The Roles: Committed vs. Involved • The Process: From idea to product • The Parts: Artifacts and Ceremonies • The Potential: See how it could help students succeed.
The Principle: Agile Manifesto • We are uncovering better ways of developing products by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools • Working products over comprehensive documentation • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation • Responding to change over following a plan • That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.
Why Scrum? Industry Survey (Yahoo) on teams that Switched to using Scrum • Improved Productivity (Productivity up 38%) • Improved Morale (52% yes vs. 9% no) • Improved Accountability/Ownership (62% yes vs. 6% no) • Improved Collaboration/Cooperation (81% yes vs. 1% no) • Improved quality (44% yes vs. 10% no) • 85% of new users prefer to continue using Scrum
Some Companies that use Scrum
What is Scrum? Scrum is a way for teams to work together to develop a product. Product development, using Scrum, occurs in small pieces, with each piece building upon previously created pieces. Building products one small piece at a time encourages creativity and enables teams to respond to feedback and change, to build exactly and only what is needed.
From Industry to My Robotics Classroom Part 1. Pre-Scrum: Determined Initial Design Direction – Defined what the robot is to do – Set Specifications and Constraints – Researched and Brainstormed Solutions – Selected the Original Design Direction Part 2. Develop the product in Teams using Scrum - Establish Roles - Apply Process
Role: Product Owner • Represents the Customer to the Scrum Team. • Decides what will be built and in which order. (Organizes Product Backlog) • Maximizes the Return on Investment (ROI) of the team. • Decides when something is ‘Done.’ • Class: Role rotates between team members.
Role: Scrum Master (Manager) • Facilitates Ceremonies (Meetings) – Daily Stand up meeting (Scrum) – Sprint Planning Meeting – Sprint Review – Sprint Retrospective • Removes impediments/conflicts • Class: Rotate Role after each Sprint.
Role: Scrum Team • A Scrum Team is a collection of individuals working together to deliver the requested and committed product increments. • Scrum Master • Product Owner • Class: Your Student team.
Scrum 1) A Project Begins “We want to build Process a robot to …” 5) Sprint Review: Demonstrate 2) Product Owner potentially shippable with help from the product. team, prioritizes list of tasks into a ‘ Product Backlog .’ 6) Sprint Retrospective What went well? 3) Scrum Master leads team in the Sprint What did not Planning Meeting to create a Sprint go well? Backlog . A list of top Product Backlog What changes entries that can be completed in the next need to occur? Sprint .
Tracking Progress: Problems Sticky notes with problems faced. Task Board Un-groomed Product Sprint Backlog To Do Doing Done Stories Backlog (Tasks) (Tasks) (Tasks) The Tasks currently in Prioritized list Product Owner, with progress. of Stories/tasks help from the team, will to be Sticky notes on rank the stories and completed in board with: insert them into the this sprint. Task/Story Backlog. Scrum Master Retrospective: End of Sprint Updates the Chart Effort hours daily. remaining to After the Sprint answer complete the Sprint Stories. the questions: What went well? What did not go well? What can we do better?
End of the Sprint: Sprint Review • Showcase Ceremony : Run by the Product Owner demonstrating to the stakeholders. – Demonstrate what is done – Show your shippable product (working robot) – Show your Journal – Robot Skills – Class: Take a picture of your product and add to engineering notebook.
End of the Sprint: Sprint Retrospective • Class: Rotate Roles within the • Retrospective Ceremony: Run team for the next Sprint. by the Scrum Master (Record in – Product Owner to Scrum Master, Engineering Journal) Scrum Master to Team Member, – What did your team do well? one of the Team Members to • Completed Stories … Product Owner. – What did your team not do well? • Uncompleted Stories … – What can your team do better?
Impact on Students • Exposed to real-world industry based teamwork model. • Increased productivity, collaboration, and accountability when working in teams. • Improved quality of the product being developed. • Increased ownership of their project including project management. • Students explored opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math in the context of real-world problems and applications.
Impact at West Salem: Results of Applying Scrum Implemented Scrum in my Robotics Projects class and on many levels the most successful season to date. Qualifying Tournament Champions: (8) Qualifying Tournament Excellence Award Winners (3) VRC State Co-Champion and Excellence Award Winners. Both teams qualified for VEX World Championship next week. It worked very well for teams with 5 students, not as well with 3 student teams and it was a wash with 4 student teams. ...
The Potential: Your School Beneficial when there are changing requirements and you can implement an iterative process. Computer Science: Developing a program in a team for a client. CTE: Team project where a new product is being created. Robotics Team (VEX, FIRST, ROV …) ...
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Appendix: Scrum Process
References • Max Arbow, ADP • http://scrummethodology.com/scrum-user-stories/ • http://www.brainstorming.co.uk/tutorials/brainstormingrules.html • http://scrumtrainingseries.com/ • http://amitsinghmalik.blogspot.com/2013/06/scrum-master-roles-responsibilities.html • http://theagileschool.blogspot.com/ • http://illustratedagile.com/sketches • http://www.collab.net/services/training/agile_e-learning • Case studies: http://lookforwardconsulting.com/2012/11/28/14-scrum-case-studies/ • Scrum Diagram: http://blog.xebia.com/2012/05/23/new-scrum-process-overview/ • Scrum Diagram: http://tech.pristine.io/a-peek-into-development-at-pristine/ • Airplane Factory Game: Flavipo Steffens de Castro (www.agileway.com. br) • Airplane Factory Game: Rafael Prikladnicki (http://www.inf.pucrs.br/~rafeal)
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