Welcome to USU's Junior Engineering Program

We are excited to be coming to your school. The following information will help you to prepare for your Junior Engineering day.

Your teachers will be teaching the lessons. Junior Engineering staff are present for support, not to teach.

The Sign-up Sheet allows you to sign up for the lessons your teachers would like to present. Go there: Sign-up Sheet Link.

A timeline for the three week before Junior Engineering comes to your school is provided below. We are hoping that this timeline will relieve some of the anxiety that is common the few weeks proceeding the program.

What to expect during the three weeks before Junior Engineering
comes to your school:

The morning of your scheduled day:

• The USU Program Coordinator will be on-site a minimum of one hour prior to the start of your school day.  Contact them if you have questions.

• Teachers should call the office if they need the USU Program Coordinator in their classroom once the day starts. The office staff will have the cell phone number for the Program Coordinator.

• Teachers should arrive to school early for setup.

• Remember ice for Sense and Nonsense & Clouds, Wind and Weather lessons.
  
  
• Remember two-liter bottles for Rockets and Hurricanes
  
  
• Enjoy your Junior Engineering Day!

• Teacher's selected module will be delivered the day prior (weather permitting) at a central location in your school

• Teachers should roll their box to their classroom, inventory contents and immediately report any shortfall to your staff coordinator.

Two+ days prior to your scheduled day:

• Teachers download lesson plans from the USU website:

• Teachers view the video for their lesson from the lesson plan page (if available)

• Contact your site/staff coordinator with questions.

Turn in Lesson Sign-up Sheet!

Get it here: Lesson Sign-up Sheet

The Program Coordinator will call to help you prepare for your Junior Engineering Day.

The following is a link to the contact sheet the Coordinator will use when he calls you. Please review this sheet. Press the back button on your browser when you have finished reviewing it.

Begin asking for two-liter soda bottles.

• The Rockets lesson requires 50-60 two-liter soda bottles

• The Hurricanes lesson requires about 30 two-liter soda bottles.

1. An invoice and instructions will arrive at your school

2. Our Videos are now ONLINE! The videos correspond to certain lessons plans and links to those videos can be found in the lesson plans. Not all lesson plans will have videos. If you need a hard copy of the videos, please contact our office so we can send them to you in a timely manner!

3. Teachers Choose Lessons and start reviewing lessons plans and videos (if the lesson has a video)

4. If you are not familiar with how the lessons are taught, read this link, Lesson Instructions

5. The lesson plans can be accessed here:
   Lesson Plans: K-2 / 3-4 / 5-6

6. It is recommended that the teachers review the lessons and videos, at least one week before we deliver the program to your school. Remember not all lessons have a video

7. Decide if your school will host an evening family fair. If yes, begin advertising your evening family fair in your school bulletin or newsletter

8. Each school has the opportunity to showcase their school with an evening family fair. This is an opportunity for parents to come and experience what their children are learning. Attendance is usually high, depending on how much effort is put into informing parents about the evening fair.