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Pioneers in Engineering Annual Report 2014–2015 Contents PIONEERS IN ENGINEERING Annual Report 2014–2015 Contents 4 Year Seven Berkeley: where the #1 public university in the world is next to some of the 6 Prep most under-served public schools in the nation. UC Berkeley’s College of 8 Robotics Competition Engineering is among the finest in the nation, but for students in surrounding communities, there are high barriers to exploring and pursuing STEM 12 Financials (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) careers. 13 Donors Pioneers in Engineering (PiE) is a UC Berkeley 501(c)(3) student organization 14 Looking Ahead that combines public service and engineering projects to address this disparity. Our mission is to create engaging STEM experiences for East Bay students that provide them with the tools, resources, guidance and SHOWING SPIRIT| Although they were inspiration to build their own future. eliminated early on in the competition, REALM students went right back out to inspire kids by letting them drive around their boldly decorated robot. This great attitude won REALM the We build to inspire. Texas Instruments Spirit Award. 2 3 1. Albany High School studentReduced/Free demographics Lunch Gender 20 2. Alameda Community Learning Center 3. Arroyo High School Pinole Yes Male 59% 4. Aspire California College Prep Academy 9 No or Female 5. Balboa High School of schools 6. Berkeley High School Declined 30% to State 7. Bishop O’Dowd High School reduced/ are Title 1 Richmond 45% gender 8. Community Day School 55% free lunch 15 9. De Anza High School El Cerrito 10. El Cerrito High School 70% 10 11. Encinal High School 1 to 5 12. Head-Royce School 1 13. Lighthouse Community Charter High School mentor to 14. Aspire Lionel Wilson College Preparatory Freshman Hispanic/Latino Albany GradeYes LevelNo Male Female 15. LPS Richmond Sophomore White student ratio 24 schools 22 4 6 16. McClymonds High School Junior Asian American 17. Nea Community Learning Center 9% 6% 18. Oakland School of the Arts Senior African American 350 students Berkeley 25% 19. Oakland Technical High School 34.5% 22% over 1,120 19 20. Pinole Valley High School 34.5% 78 mentors 21. Ralphe Bunche Academy grade ethnicity 16 hours of 21 12 22. REALM Charter School 50 staff 18 23. San Lorenzo High School mentoring 24. Raoul Wallenberg Traditional High School 44% 25% Oakland 8 2 17 24 11 Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior PiE Schools Year 7 Alameda San Leandro 7 2014-2015 Seven years ago, PiE started with four In this report, you will read about what we 13 new schools this year founding members and served six schools. have accomplished: our staff built a hovercraft San Francisco 14 Since then, we have expanded to four as part of our PREP Program (Pg. 7); revamped returning from last season times that amount with over 350 students the robotics kit provided to students for our 5 participating in our events. This year, PiE’s annual competition (Pg. 8); and engineered a goal was not only growth, but also providing fully autonomous field (Pg. 10). We are pleased students with a more sophisticated and to share these achievements with you, as well 23 challenging STEM experience. as our initiatives for the next year. 3 4 San Lorenzo 5 “My students have very limited access to STEM outside of school. The school is under resourced and serves an at risk community. This is one of the few hands-on science extracurricular programs that the students will ever be exposed to.” Dr. Adam Siegel Ralph Bunche High School Student Demographics Prep partnered with two alternative education schools located in the We debuted a new Oakland Unified School District (OUSD): project, the leaf-blower Community Day and Ralphe Bunche. hovercraft, during Prep Student Demographics the Prep field trip to African American 1% Cal (see facing page). Hispanic/Latino The students from Mixed Race 6% 4% Community Day were Prep Asian American Staff members designed so excited about it that OtherAfrican American they ended up building The Prep Program is a semester- and built two fields, one for 25% Hispanic their own hovercraft at long 2-unit field work class led by a each school, to use in the the Mixed Race school with PiE mentors. team of PiE staff members. This year, Mindstorm programming Asian challenge. mentors introduced STEM concepts Other with activities like Snap Circuits, 64% Mindstorm Tug-of-War, Mindstorm Mindstorm Maze Field Trip and Maze Challenge, and Hovercraft. Challenge Hovercraft 6 7 CHAMPIONS|The winning alliance self-reported feeling more comfortable self-reported feeling more comfortable this year was Albany High School with mechanical skills. On average: with programming skills. On average: Robotics Competition and Head Royce. Albany also 62% 46% won two more awards, for before PiE 4.5 before PiE 3.5 Our goal is to create a fun and challenging 8-week competition engineering professionalism and after PiE 5.5 after PiE 4.2 that gets students excited and more confident about pursuing their engineering journal. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) STEM fields.This year marked the first RC in which students were not at all somewhat very not at all somewhat very provided with an off-the-shelf robotics system. We introduce a Teams learn the Students get their Teams test their “My favorite Students, especially first-time participants, liked the kit’s reliability, quick code deployment, and pre-drilled parts, which soccer mini-game game, Fast Food designs reviewed robots and moment was final facilitated prototyping. However, some students felt that the at Kickoff. Teams Frenzy, by playing by industry, UC strategies out in competition! It was kit’s size and parts constrained their design choices. use their base another mini- Berkeley faculty, practice matches awesome! Very kits to compete. game: COMPact. and PiE staff. against each other. intense!” Based on this feedback, we intend to move to a hybrid base kit, to capitalize on the benefits of off-the-shelf products and the design 100% flexibility of in- of teams left house parts. Kickoff with a working robot, compared to around 80% in previous years #pierobotics Kickoff Game Design Scrimmage Final snapshots Day Reviews Competition 8 9 2 1 .25 .50 Automated2 Field 1 PiE Alumni Scholarship .25 Meet Pedro Becerra, the winner B .173 B of our second annual PiE Alumni About the Scholarship The PiE Alumni Scholarship is our way of .50 Scholarship. .35 directly supporting students as they move into .397 THRU (X Drill) higher education. Any high school student Pedro passed through several One of his teachers summed who has participated in at least one of PiE’s high schools in the OUSD him up perfectly: “The Pedro programs is eligible to apply. The application before arriving and excelling you’ll meet today is still gentle process begins with an online application, and B .173 B at Community Day, where he and sweet, but he has found ends with an interview with PiE alumni at the .42 Reflective participated in two seasons of his voice and is a leader PiE RC Final Competition. .35 the PiE Robotics Competition. amongst his peers.” .397 THRU (X Drill) tape for line Rotating Despite his rocky start, Pedro following Pictured alongside Pedro are three members Turntable has grown to be quite the We hope that our $1,500 of the scholarship committee, from left to 1.006 1.50 energetic and inspirational scholarship will help support right: Vanathi Ganesh, Frank Chuang and Peter participant. Pedro showed us him as he starts a new chapter Nakamoto. how the right opportunities .42 in his educational career at and environment can Chabot Community College! .42 empower students to achieve Turntable great success. Buttons Flippable 1.006 1.50 1.69 Tables DRAWN NOTES: JOSE SANTOS 3/3/2015 A -MAKE 2 PARTS. THERE WILL BE MORE IN CHECKED PIONEERS IN ENGINEERING A THE WAT.4E2RJETTED SHEET. THESE ARE BACKUP. QA TITLE MFG 1.69 APPROVED ARM MOUNT DRAWN NOTES: JOSE SANTOS 3/3/2015 SIZE DWG NO REV A Button-activated A -MAKE 2 PARTS. THERE WILL BE MORE IN CHECKED A PIONAEErmRS M IoNu nEtNGINEERING SCALE THE WATERJETTED SHEET. THESE ARE BACKUP. QA gates SHEET OF TITLE 1 1 2 MFG 1 APPROVED ARM MOUNT 10 SIZE DWG NO REV 11 A Arm Mount SCALE SHEET 1 OF 1 2 1 Financials Donors $5,000 $2,930 PiE’s program is not possible without generous donations $1,730 from our sponsors. Our biggest donors from Year 7 were: How many kits? $2,170 The average cost per kit $3,410 $10,060 $10,000-$25,000 is $1,260. To put our top donors’ gifts in context: SanDisk: $15,000 = one kit Texas Instruments: $10,250 $4,660 $59,460 12 $42,160 $5,000 - $9,999 Qualcomm Foundation: $7,500 $8,720 Robert Luan (Microsoft Volunteer Hour Matching): $6,112 $32,750 UC Berkeley College of Engineering: $6,000 $30,190 Yahoo Employee Foundation Spark Grant: $5,000 $1,260 $1,260 $1,000 - $4,999 8 Expenses Income UC Berkeley ME Department: $3,250 Kit Extension RC: Kit and Kit Extension Corporate Sponsorship UC Berkeley Engineering Student Council: $3,083 $735 Ryan Julian (Google Volunteer Hour Matching): $2,360 RC: Kit Development Volunteer Hour Matching Vanathi Ganesh (Qualcomm Volunteer Hour Matching): $1,650 UC Berkeley Departmental Allocations RC: Events UC Berkeley EECS Department: $1,000 Grants and Awards Base Kit Prep Program 6 $525 $100 $100 Organizational Earned and Other Income Avg Kit Cost What Per Team* Teams Pay *rounded up slightly, from $1,257.91 All donations to PiE are tax-deductible.
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