The title of the program is IEEE WIE Project-Based Learning School Camp. This camp is mainly initiated to encourage pre-university students to have hands-on experience with emerging technologies. For this 1st Edition, we focused on providing hands-on training sessions with diverse competition on “Website Development without Coding”. We created this program as a motivational tool for pre-university students to give them some insight into the professional world.

This Program can be conducted once or twice a year (dividing mainly among Summer and Winter Camps). This is a new initiative conducted collaboratively by Ramneek Kalra (IEEE Impact Creator) with the support of IEEE WIE Gujarat, Madras, Bombay, and Uttar Pradesh Affinity Groups, India (R10). This can be followed by all the countries to bring or create more awareness among the pre-university students on the Project-Based Learning Approach.

The goal for this camp is to elevate the practical implication of cutting-edge technologies and how it relates to Pre-University Curriculum. The impact of this program is on pre-university students to enrich the Project-Based Learning Approach around the Globe. We believe that the success of this event is defined by bringing active participation from the students. We as organizers have to make sure about arranging the apt sessions through which the interests of students remain intact.

One of the main factors through which the program got emulated to other countries was by collaboration with the IEEE TryEngineering Initiative and Junior Einstein Track (IEEE YESIST12-2021). Their support provided us with many resources to reach out to professors/pre-universities in different countries. Also, we were fortunate to have an amazing team who pro-actively reached out to their personal connections to share the word ahead.

IEEE WIE PBL School Camp Team is open to welcoming wonderful volunteers to the team, so that they can connect with experts and volunteers in the WIE Affinity Groups, globally. This can be achieved by staying connected with us through below mentioned contact details or through Camp’s Social Media Handles. Any volunteer in IEEE if interested can lead the same kind of event, if they hold the zeal and motivation to spread out knowledge through means of PVN Model of IEEE i.e., Participation, Volunteering and Networking (A Model proposed through personal experience of our Program Chair).

“How To” FAQs that would help volunteers/members run similar events:

• Where I can get information about IEEE WIE PBL School Camp?
  • Please explore at: https://attend.ieee.org/wie-pbl/ or at IEEE
    TryEngineering Portal: https://stemportal-tryengineering.ieee.org/programs/detail/2c1d2718-77c5-45ff-a8d0-5f4ff5209e0d
  • How to increase the visibility of event among Pre-University Students?
  • You can follow below tips to increase the outreach of this event among Pre-University Students:
  • Collaborate with Pre-University Programs under IEEE or Non-IEEE Banner including: IEEE TryEngineering, IEEE WIE
• Affinity Groups which are focused on STAR Programs, Country-Specific Governmental or Non-Governmental initiatives (for say in India, Atal Tinkering Labs)
  • Share the Call for Registrations among your Region’s Heads of Pre-Universities.
• How I can form committees for Pre/Production/Post Event for executing and implementing the event?
  • You can form committees like Designing, Social Media, Content & Communication, Publicity, Website, Advisory, and any more if required.

Website Link: https://attend.ieee.org/wie-pbl/
IEEE TryEngineering STEM Event Link: https://stemportal-tryengineering.ieee.org/programs/detail/2c1d2718-77c5-45ff-a8d0-5f4ff5209e0d

Program Chair: Ramneek Kalra
Email ID: ramneek.kalra@ieee.org