Toys and Mathematical Options for Retention in Engineering (Toys’n MORE) Intermediate Outcomes for STEM Students Who Participated in Math Tutoring, a Toy-Based Freshman Engineering Design Course, or a Summer Bridge Program

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where she received her Ph.D. in Workforce Education and her M.S. in Architectural Engineering. She is co-PI on the NSF-sponsored Toys'n MORE grant and currently manages several retention programs targeting over 2000 women and underrepresented technical students at all levels of the academic and career development pipeline. She is also an executive member of the National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates (NAMEPA) organization.

Promising Practices for the Expansion and Sustainability of Summer Bridge Programs for Underrepresented Engineering Students at Pennsylvania State University

“…We demonstrated that offering the Campus College Connection math-intensive summer bridge programs for underserved STEM students at three regional campuses resulted in increases in retention that exceeded the 10% target (Cohan et al, 2014). We aggregated the data for the three bridge programs and examined the efficacy of the new regional summer bridge programs for STEM students in three ways and found evidence for higher retention in Engineering for incoming underserved Engineering students.…”