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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

• f 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 to 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.

Student/Educator Needs Focused

What Are Other Educators Doing?

Can I Connect Virtually?

Who’s Out There?

What Does A Volunteer Profile Look Like?

• Stay Connected - Follow STEMOregon on

Facebook and Twitter or subscribe to STEMOregon via email

• Talk To Your CTE Regional Coordinator
• Find out if your school district is part of a

STEM Hub

@stemoregon

stemoregon

Now What?

Greg Smith

Teaching Background: 25 Years North Salem -> West Salem High School Computer Programming Computer Applications Math Computer Support CISCO Networking Intro to Engineering Design Robotics (FLL, FRC, FTC, VEX, VEXiQ)

Greg Smith smith_greg@salkeiz.k12.or.us

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 Process

1) A Project Begins “We want to build a robot to …” 2) Product Owner with help from the team, prioritizes list

• f tasks into a

‘Product Backlog.’

3) Scrum Master leads team in the Sprint Planning Meeting to create a Sprint

• Backlog. A list of top Product Backlog

entries that can be completed in the next Sprint.

5) Sprint Review: Demonstrate potentially shippable product. 6) Sprint Retrospective What went well? What did not go well? What changes need to occur?

Tracking Progress: Task Board

Un-groomed Stories Product Backlog Sprint Backlog To Do (Tasks) Doing (Tasks) Done (Tasks) Retrospective: End of Sprint Problems Sticky notes on board with: Task/Story Product Owner, with help from the team, will rank the stories and insert them into the Backlog. Prioritized list

• f Stories/tasks

to be completed in this sprint. The Tasks currently in progress. Sticky notes with problems faced. Effort hours remaining to complete the Sprint Stories. After the Sprint answer the questions: What went well? What did not go well? What can we do better? Scrum Master Updates the Chart daily.

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

• Retrospective Ceremony: Run

by the Scrum Master (Record in Engineering Journal)

– What did your team do well?

• Completed Stories …

– What did your team not do well?

• Uncompleted Stories …

– What can your team do better?

• Class: Rotate Roles within the

team for the next Sprint.

– Product Owner to Scrum Master, Scrum Master to Team Member,

• ne of the Team Members to

Product Owner.

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 …) ...

Questions

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)

Dan Robinette – Clackamas High School

• Physics, AP Physics, Chemistry
• 25+ year experience
• Significant project-based component to class
• Large-scale integrated science, technology,

engineering, & math challenges

• Design
• Build
• Program
• Measure
• Interpret
• Reflect

Project: “Fan-drone”

Four Distinct Project Strands

• 1. Physics measurements and

calculations

• 2. Conceptual explanation
• 3. Engineering design
• 4. Personal, career and academic

reflection

Community Partnerships

• Jack Schmidt
• Silicon Forest Electronics
• Cress Merrill
• Medical testing technician

(retired)

Multiple Roles for Partners [1] “Nuts and bolts” of project [2] Presentation… careers in technology fields [3] Individual interviews [4] Revision and next steps…

Support Documents/Examples

• Grading Checklist
• www.nclack.k12.or.us/clackhiphysics >

Circuits, Robotics and Energy

STEM

• Next Generation Science Standards
• Cross-cutting challenge…tech, science, career,

math

• Career, real-world application
• Rigorous

South Metro-Salem STEM Support

• Standards and Integration Goals
• Practical Curriculum Support
• Partnership building

Contacts

• Melissa Dubois, SMS STEM Hub Director,

Melissa.Dubois@oit.edu

• Jill Hubbard, STEM Network Director

jill@jillhubbard.com

• Greg Smith, West Salem High School

smith_greg@salkeiz.k12.or.us

• Dan Robinette, Clackamas High School

robinette@nclack.k12.or.us