NYLF Engineering Curriculum
The forum’s curriculum is designed to provide motivated students with the opportunity to explore a future career and get a leg up on the competition. Students gain academic and career insights into engineering fields through informative seminars, interactive simulations and workshops, and challenges that require students to apply their newfound skills to create low-cost, sustainable solutions.
Capstone Impact Challenge
During this competitive design challenge, students work to solve a real-world problem. After analyzing the challenges and constraints, the students utilize their creativity and various technologies, such as ArcView GIS, to plan, ideate, and prototype a solution. The challenge culminates in a multi-round presentation where the best solutions are determined.
Career Immersion
Students experience the full life cycle of an actual engineering project and gain insights from engineers who were integral to its execution and delivery. During this real-life engineering experience, students actively explore all phases of product creation as they participate in small group workshops and hands-on stations while receiving instruction from an engineer who worked on the project.
Speaking Engagements
Students hear from academic faculty and professional leaders in various engineering disciplines during speaking events and visits to engineering facilities. These interactions with subject matter experts provide them with insight into recent innovations in engineering and the keys to achieving a successful future career in this dynamic field.
NYLF Engineering Sample Schedule
Helicopter Electronics Workshop
Applying electronics concepts, your students will program a microcontroller to independently fly a model helicopter in this activity developed by Andrew Barry, Ph.D., a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) grad and Founder of Stage One Education.
The helicopter workshop manages to pack the best parts of robotics—circuits, programming, and autonomous control—into an amazingly fun package.
-Andrew Barry, Ph.D.
Search #heliworkshop in Instagram or click here to see what previous program attendees were able to accomplish during this educational and entertaining workshop.
The Impact of Nominating
Since 1985, Envision by WorldStrides has helped more than 800,000 high-achieving students, ranging from elementary school through college, expand their leadership abilities, discover their passion for a future career, and realize the power of their potential. A majority of those students were nominated by caring, inspiring teachers who recognized their potential for a bright future and rewarded them with a nomination to an Envision program.
The value and positive impact your nomination has on a student cannot be overstated. Even if your nominees decide not to attend a program, just being selected is an empowering and often a life-changing event. You have the power to make an impact—your vote of confidence in their hard work and dedication builds confidence and inspires them to keep reaching their goals.