Completing the K-12 Engineering Pipeline by Creating College Pathways (Work in Progress)

One of the largest school districts in the State of Colorado, Denver Public Schools, has partnered with a university of science and engineering, Colorado School of Mines, to improve the education that precollege students receive in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). This partnership spans the kindergarten through twelfth grade STEM pipeline. The manner in which students and teachers learn STEM, at all levels, is being challenged and changed. Additionally, graduate students are learning communication skills and the importance of recruiting the next generation of scientists and engineers. This article describes a work in progress that is designed to include the entire kindergarten through twelfth grade pipeline within one school district in STEM learning.