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Next Engineers Facilitator & Volunteer Newsletter - June 2023

June 22, 2023

To support the Next Engineers team, we've put together a newsletter with tips that will help everyone engage with students and stay up to date on the latest resources available to you. This quarter, we're sharing creative ways to strengthen the end of a session, along with a podcast from the University of Queensland's Women in Engineering discussing what a career in engineering really looks like. Check it out:

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10 Powerful Ways to End Your Lessons:
Got a few extra minutes at the end of a Discovery, Camp, or Academy session? Try these creative activities that can help students make sense of new material—and have fun in the process.

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But seriously, what is engineering?
There’s so much more to engineering than hard hats and building bridges. This podcast series from The University of Queensland’s Women in Engineering program is geared toward high school students to answer the question: What does a career in engineering look like?

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GE Volunteer Feedback Form

Spread the word! We want to hear about your experience volunteering with Next Engineers. Be sure to fill out this form after an event and share your feedback to help improve the program for other volunteers and students.

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Looking for more? Find past editions here. New editions of the newsletter will be available quarterly, and we hope that they will be an opportunity for you to engage with volunteers throughout the year. If you have a resource you'd like to share, email us at NextEngineers@fhi360.org.