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A lesson plan created by two technology education majors at Millersville recently received first place in “The Alaska Design Challenge,” a competition sponsored by the Anchorage school district of Anchorage, Alaska. Seniors Jon Jarrett and Thomas Flick submitted their entry, “Innovation and Design: Communications Systems,” to this national competition.
Together, Jarrett, of New Columbia, Pa., and Flick, of Elimsport, Pa., competed against technology education students from all over the United States to design a 10-day lesson plan to be used in a modern communications systems course. Students graduating in the spring or summer of 2011 worked individually or in teams of two to complete this challenge.
Required activities in each of the plans included the engineering design process and concepts of design (function, form, principles and elements) for making informed decisions based upon mathematical data. The instruction also had to include a design brief, titled “Emergency Communications Challenge,” as an activity in the unit.
The two spent a great deal of time working together on constructing the plan and their efforts will be recognized at the 21st Annual Anchorage Career and Technology Education Conference, February 4-5. Jarrett and Flick will each receive $1,000 for winning first place as well as an all-expense paid trip to Alaska for the conference.
Jarrett and Flick both felt the entire experience was, “a great opportunity to demonstrate what we learned through our courses and time spent at Millersville University.”
