January 24, 2020
After the earthquake in Puerto Rico, the TRIO Upward Bound student participants — members of the T3 Alliance — began their project to set up quake early warning stations for residents.
The Earthquake in Puerto Rico was devastating. The area most affect is the southwest area of Ponce. Homes have collapsed and there is structural damage to areas, including this bridge.
The TRIO program and student participants are members of the T3 Alliance and they began connecting and building sensor stations to notify residents of future quake activity.
Teaching Through Technology (T3) Alliance is a hands-on curriculum designed through a collaboration with the National Science Foundation (NSF), the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, the Council for Opportunity in Education (COE), Educating4Leadership, and Federal TRIO college access programs across the country to increase students STEM identity and prepare them for successful STEM career trajectories.
The T3 Alliance model engages pre-college students from under-represented groups in after-school and intensive summer programs to teach them the skills to successfully deploy three emerging technologies — Raspberry Pi computers, 3-D printers, and unmanned systems (US).
(1) UB Student in the Inter American University, Barranquitas Campus UB program builds a Raspberry Shake seismograph. (2) Students in the above San Germain UB program building their computer with Raspberry Pi.
(1) Once the computer is built and connected to the internet, the Raspberry Shake is also connected. Raspberry Shake is a motion sensor that detects quakes that also connects to a national database. (2) This is program confirmation and connection of the Raspberry Shake sensor on the student computer. (3) The time chart and graphics are represented on this screen. This graphic represents the jump test.
(1) This is Saraliz González, the UB program Director at the Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico Recinto de Barranquitas, showing a real time graph with an earthquake that had just occurred right after the raspberry shake was installed. (2) This is a picture of some of the students during external site installation on the campus grounds. (3) This is site installation to include piping and wiring.
(1) Students installing the Raspberry Shake. (2) The completed installation before closing.
(1) and (2) Instructors and staff in San Germán UB program building their computer with Raspberry Pi. This is an above ground Raspberry Shake installation with the UB T3 instructor Luis Barriento Lopez from San Germán University in the light t-shirt. (3) This is the completed above ground installation.
(1), (2) and (3) Students from the UIPR Barranquitas Campus help UB Students from the UIPR Aguadilla Campus to install their Raspberry Shakes and test them with successful results.
(1) Programming test success.
The learning outcomes of T3 are reflected in the evaluation, which reported that 231 students (67.7%) responded “I used Raspberry Pi technology to solve a problem.” Instructors at each site choose an appropriate learning project for their student given time, resources and student knowledge. Additionally, non-STEM professionals reported their preparation to teach basic technology changes significantly from an average range of 2.57 “Slightly prepared,” to 4.36 on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being “Not at all prepared” to 5 being “Very prepared.” TRIO programs follow students for a minimum of 4 years to acquire longitudinal data about participants’ college success. By working in conjunction with TRIO programs, the T3 Alliance is able to record students’ participation in STEM courses and degree interest over many years. Evaluators also measure STEM efficacy and participation of students in STEM majors in college.
If your program is interested in learning more, or becoming a member of the T3 Alliance, reach out to Nicole Norfles at (nicole.norfles@coenet.org) or (t3allianceorg@gmail.com).
Please click here to support relief efforts to benefit the TRIO community in Puerto Rico. This initiative is organized by the Caribbean Association of Educational Opportunity Programs.
November 11, 2019
My life would not be the same without the Upward Bound program. I spent three summers as a participant, living and learning alongside other students who dreamed of becoming the first person in their families to attend college. Upward Bound was my support system.
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July 25, 2019
My life would not be the same without the Upward Bound program. I spent three summers as a participant, living and learning alongside other students who dreamed of becoming the first person in their families to attend college. Upward Bound was my support system.
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June 26, 2019
On June 8-13, the Council for Opportunity in Education (COE) hosted the 30th Annual National Student Leadership Congress (NSLC) at Georgetown University. This year, nearly 200 Talent Search, Upward Bound, and Upward Bound Math/Science students from across the country, Puerto Rico, and Guam came to Washington, D.C., to learn, be inspired, and share their stories.
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November 15, 2018
On November 8, 2018 — the 53rd Anniversary of the signing of the Higher Education Act of 1965 — the Council for Opportunity in Education once again partnered with the Center for First-generation Student Success for the second annual First Generation College Celebration.
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October 3, 2018
During the Council for Opportunity in Education’s 37th Annual Conference in New York City, Texas Christian University (TCU) was honored as the winner of the Student Support Services 50th Anniversary Student Video Contest.
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June 15, 2018
On May 17, 2018, The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Education (Pell Institute) of the Council for Opportunity in Education (COE) and the University of Pennsylvania Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy (PennAHEAD), released the Indicators of Higher Education Equity in the United States — 2018 Historical Trend Report at a meeting at the National Press Club.
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May 7, 2018
On April 4-6, 2018, the MO-KAN-NE (Missouri-Kansas-Nebraska) Chapter of the Educational Opportunity Association (EOA) celebrated its 40th Anniversary at their Annual Conference.
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March 16, 2018
TRIO Day began on February 24, 1986, when a congressional resolution (H. Con. Res. 278) declared that Saturday, February 28, 1986, should be designated as "National TRIO Day" to commemorate the annual achievements of the Federal TRIO programs.
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January 29, 2018
On October 28, 2017, the University of Connecticut's Center for Academic Programs (CAP) celebrated 50 years of Changing Lives through Educational Access with a gala on the Storrs campus.
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November 22 2017
Here are just some of the activities that occurred around the country on November 8, 2017. Check out #celebratefirstgen on social media to learn even more!
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November 13, 2017
On November 8, 2017, the Council for Opportunity in Education, in partnership with NASPA-Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, hosted the first annual celebration of First-Generation College Students on Capitol Hill.
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November 2, 2017
Any criminal conviction puts significant barriers before those wanting to improve their lives. It also reduces the pool of job candidates unnecessarily, according to two women who are working to help former inmates become college-bound students.
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October 10, 2017
Despite a childhood of limited opportunity, Davarian Baldwin dreamed that he could become a politician or lawyer with predictable success.
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July 21, 2017
Julia Gusse can't tell you much about her service in the United States Air Force. She had top-secret clearance.
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June 14, 2017
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity, said the Roman philosopher Seneca. And Eddie Chambers, Upward Bound program director for 40 years at Wittenberg University, was plenty prepared on March 22nd when he landed in Chicago and glanced at his cell phone before making his connecting flight back home to Ohio.
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May 15, 2017
To sense the passion that Christal Graham-Jones has for her job as a Talent Search counselor, one only has to look at what she calls her "wall of fame," outside her office door at Sharon High School in Pennsylvania.
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March 31, 2017
Living in Greenville all my life helped me believe in the American Dream. But belief isn't enough. You also need hard work.
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March 14, 2017
After her first year of college, Jessica McCormick got the dreaded letter from the dean: pull your grades up or you'll be dismissed.
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February 27, 2017
"There's something special that happens when you get a group of powerful women in a room... and shut the door," wrote Andrea Wong in the forward of her book, "Secrets of Powerful Women: Leading Change for a New Generation."
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January 26, 2017
Ten years ago Hunter Lin was 11 years-old and working two jobs in China. Today he's a graduate nursing student at Johns Hopkins University and founder of a biomedical start-up company that hopes to launch technology at the end of 2017 to change how diseases are diagnosed around in the world. He credits TRIO with giving him a chance.
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January 3, 2017
When internationally-acclaimed actress Viola Davis gains her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Jan. 5, two special people will be among the many around the world cheering her on: Her older sister, Deloris Grant, and the sisters' earliest acting coach, Ron Stetson.The federal Upward Bound program links all three.
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