USING A CAMPUS-WIDE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE TO SUPPORT K-12 ENGINEERING OUTREACH

This paper describes the first phase of MISO (Maximizing the Impact of STEM Outreach through Data-driven Decision-Making), a campus-wide project, funded by the Nation Science Foundation, at North Carolina Sate University. This project seeks to both better understand and support the collective impact of K-12 STEM outreach efforts of the university. Described are the processes for creating a campus-wide community of practice of STEM outreach providers and the development of data-driven decision-making tools to help support the continuous improvement goals of these programs. This process including the creation of logic models for each program and the developing a set of common survey instruments that measured outcome goals for the programs. The collaboration of the MISO project and the Engineering Place outreach program is used to demonstrate this work.