ADVENTURES IN ENGINEERING INC.
TAMPA, FLORIDA

Adventures in Engineering is a not-for-profit educational organization headquartered in Tampa, FL. We provide a K-12 introduction to Engineering via summer camps, school programs, and online distributed content. Our Mission To help K-12 students prepare for the changing world by learning problem solving skills through STEAM curriculum. ), today only 16 percent of American high school seniors are proficient in mathematics and interested in a STEAM career. This is a tragedy for the United States, its children, and its future. Programs like those developed by Adventures in Engineering will help to improve this statistic. Engineering involves the application of Science, Technology, Art and Math to make products that are useful to people. Thus, when your children learn Engineering, they are really learning about all aspects of STEAM in their most useful, day-to-day form. If you look at the items you use today, chances are that an engineer was involved in its design or production… your alarm clock, your toothpaste, your breakfast cereal, your vitamin, your shoes, your make-up, your car, the roads, the bridges, the building where you work, your smartphone and all of its apps… you get the idea. Engineering is everywhere! Once children see the world in this way, learning about Engineering becomes an exciting and fun world of endless possibilities. Adventures in Engineering would love to bring engineering enrichment to your school! Our after-school programs and in-school fields trips can be tailored to your needs, age group, timeframe, and specific interests. To inquire, please contact us at The Adventures in Engineering Community Outreach Program serves as a way for us to reach our Vision. Our goal is to partner with local children’s homes, hospitals, and underprivileged schools to allow these students the opportunity to learn and flourish through developing the problem-solving skills used in STEAM programs. In the school year 2012-13, Mary’s STEM 2 class was given the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams Award. Approximately 15 high school InvenTeams are selected annually to invent and prototype a product. The class presented their work, a turbine for capturing shear wind energy from traffic flow, at MIT in June 2013. Upon moving to Tampa, Mary and Leslie Wall founded Adventures In Engineering, a Tampa non-profit organization, whose mission is to introduce young students to Engineering concepts, applications, and career paths in an exciting and accessible way. Leslie holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University. Leslie co-founded Adventures in Engineering with Mary while also stay-at-home mothering her two children. Prior to AIE, Leslie used her love of math and science while tutoring at a local elementary school in Tampa, serving as an educator for the Great American Teach-In and Junior Achievement, and judging the Hillsborough County STEM Fair. Leslie has extensive experience with both organizational development and curriculum design. Co-creator of a national customer service center for a major logistics company, she trained representatives, colleagues, and customers on newly developed processes. Leslie was also on the LEAN Six Sigma team at Granite Services, a GE affiliate, and taught both local and South American counterparts about standardized IT procedures. In high school, Leslie participated in the National Science Foundation Young Scholars Program at Northeastern University, where she was first introduced to engineering concepts. Leslie and Mary believe that all students in grades K-12 should be able to have such an opportunity to learn about the many exciting and varied opportunities available to an engineer, and they aim to reach that vision through Adventures in Engineering. My son really benefitted from Mrs. Saville's STEM classes and her hands-on approach. STEM classes are the future of engineering and it's important that students develop skills that help them think outside the box, approach a problem creatively and learn to work with others to maximize each team member's talents. Mary Saville's enthusiasm and passion for STEM classes is contagious and the students not only learn the core concepts, but are able to extend and demonstrate that learning! I would definitely recommend taking a class from Mrs. Saville because she uses STEM activities all the time, and those are the activities that help you learn how to solve real world problems. She shows how STEM classes will help you succeed in the real world! I did a teacher education seminar on the weekend for Makedo and showed off your handy work. Teachers were totally inspired. Thank you and thank your class. Your outputs have exceeded my expectations! It’s so exciting to see, and I love how you say that you don’ see it as trash but as materials – that was always our intention with this product. I would absolutely love your lesson plans for these classes. Thank you so much for making this possible by taking an interest in our son during class time - he really enjoyed learning from you. Mrs. Saville’s Engineering knowledge and STEM approach was invaluable to our son during his high school years. Her enthusiasm and engaging approach helped direct him into pursuing a mechanical engineering degree in college at a school that is in the top 20 engineering programs in the country. Adventures in Engineering is a not-for-profit educational organization headquartered in Tampa, FL. We provide a K-12 introduction to Engineering via summer camps, school programs, and online distributed content. Our Mission To help K-12 students prepare for the changing world by learning problem solving skills through STEAM curriculum. ), today only 16 percent of American high school seniors are proficient in mathematics and interested in a STEAM career. This is a tragedy for the United States, its children, and its future. Programs like those developed by Adventures in Engineering will help to improve this statistic. Engineering involves the application of Science, Technology, Art and Math to make products that are useful to people. Thus, when your children learn Engineering, they are really learning about all aspects of STEAM in their most useful, day-to-day form. If you look at the items you use today, chances are that an engineer was involved in its design or production… your alarm clock, your toothpaste, your breakfast cereal, your vitamin, your shoes, your make-up, your car, the roads, the bridges, the building where you work, your smartphone and all of its apps… you get the idea. Engineering is everywhere! Once children see the world in this way, learning about Engineering becomes an exciting and fun world of endless possibilities.