Year and Award
1997 Honorable Mention

Institution
Rutgers University (NJ)

Program Title
Family Tools & Technology

Program Director
Arlene Chasek
Consortium for Educational Equity
Rutgers University
4090 Livingston Campus
New Brunswick , NJ 08903
908/445-2071
908/464-6284
achasek@aol.com

Program Description
This program is the third in a series of multi-generational, equity-focused programs conducted by the Center for Family Involvement in Schools, a unit of the consortium for Educational Equity at Rutgers University. Family Tools & Technology encourages middle school girls and their families to collaborate on hands-on projects integrating science, technology, and mathematics. The programs seek to demonstrate to a new generation of those who have been traditionally underrepresented and socialized away from these fields the relevance and importance of science and technology in everyday life, and to increase their self-confidence.

Update
Five-day FT&T Training Workshops are offered twice a year to prepare educators to plan and conduct FT&T in their own schools. The workshop fee is $1,600 for a team of two and includes:

1. Hands-on training and practice in specially designed FT&T Challenges and Warm-Up activities;
2. Career, historical, cultural, and equity games, resources, and activities;
3. Information on how to recruit families, and plan and conduct FT&T classes;
4. A comprehensive FT&T Teachers Manual (in English or Spanish);
5. A complete FT&T tool box (per team);
6. LEGO Data #9645 set (per team);
7. On-going technical assistance;
8. Membership in the FT&T Resource Center; and
9. Breakfast and lunch each day.

Additional information about the Family Tools and Technology program is available online.

Status
Program is active

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