Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - Laurel, Maryland:EduSerc’s newest initiative to excite students into a career
in STEM is a journey in research, technology and leadership.Called the EduSerc Super Hero STEM Summer
Training Program, elementary students learn about the importance of
being an engineer, enhance their math skills, study computer technology,
develop a career plan in engineering and improve on their leadership skills all
by learning how to become a super
hero and save the earth!
“Most people don’t realize that allsuper heroes were engineers, scientists or related that
dedicated their lives to saving lives or the planet “, said Brian K. Smith,
Executive Director and Founder of EduSerc.“Our students are learning how leadership skills and technology development
were the two main keys to all super heroes.We are guiding student’s interests in super hero development to not only
see the entertainment side of fantasy, but to funnel their imagination on why
these heroes had a true love for engineering: to use it for good reasons in the world.”EduSerc uses the real passions of each
student to fuel their storyline to learn how they can become an engineer or a
super hero!
Leadership training in the program involves aspects of
teamwork and identifying the leadership lessons in current episodes of
Spiderman, Fantastic Four, and other programs on TV.Students are tested every day for their English
and writing abilities to develop storylines, physical fitness at 8am every morning
for 1 hour to determine their hero stats, and leadership/intelligence level
through repeated exercises in statistics, probability, logical thinking,
geometry and word scenario problems.This program pushes the limits for our elementary school super heroes to
become the best they can be.In the
afternoon, students learn how to develop their own gadgets and technology to enhance
their costume or abilities.Students
develop technology involving communications, electronics, computer programming
and developing products using circuit boards.
“I loved super heroes and still do!Peter Parker (Spiderman) was a BioChemistry major.Bruce Wayne (Batman) was a business man and
engineering technology mogul.Tony Stark
(Iron Man) was the owner of a defense contracting firm and designed military
weapons for the government.Bruce Banner (Hulk) was a Lab Scientist.Many super heroes even had multiple science
and engineering degrees that fueled their passions to be who they were”, said
Smith.“So, there are many aspects of
engineering in all super heroes that we don’t even realize that give us another
reason to glorify super heroes!”
This program has taken off to be a huge success for parents
that have registered their child in this program.EduSerc has we identify with a cool way to
stay interested in STEM while reaching a multitude of youth through their excitement
behind their own real heroes.The organization
is historically known for creating unique and innovative ways to engage
students over a long period of time in various career industries.EduSerc plans to take its concept nationwide
and train more elementary students to be our future super heroes of society and
continue to push their imagination to a degree in engineering in reality.
All students in the super hero program will be showcasing
their abilities at a final ceremony on Friday, June 25, 2010 at EduSerc’s
Conference and Training Center.For more
information, contact Yvette Smith, Community Relations at 301-498-2899 ext. 105
or visit http://www.eduserc.org
Current Super Heroes Our newest super heroes are as follows:
T.E.X.T. Storyline: After buying a cell
phone from the Apple store, Xavier decides to go back to the Apple store to
learn how to text message his friends.It begins to thunderstorm when he leaves, but Xavier gets the shock of
his life when gets struck by lightning while texting his friends.After this strange event, he calls for help
only to realize that he is communicating to authorities through text messages
from his brain waves.
Now, Xavier’s adventures begins as he fights crime as a new
super hero called T.E.X.T with the new ability to text messages and control any electronic
device with the very words he thinks of in his brain!
Villain:T.E.X.T.’s villain is called “Static”: a known
criminal that is determine to interfere with all wireless communications and is
focused on disrupting T.E.X.T. from helping people via electronic mind texting
control.
VIPER Storyline: As a cool and
star pro athlete and MVP for the Washington Redskins, Justyn is the best player
on the field with the most money and fame to win every game.His friends called him Mr. VIP since he was a
very important person to the team and always hit really hard on the field that
he “stung” his opponents.Although with
a Masters in Mechanical Engineering, no one knew that his secret to his success
on the field was that he created mechanical devices to enhance his strength and
agility.He secretly worked with plastic
surgeons to implant his inventions in his muscles and skin to become a living
cyborg.
Now, Justyn has become addicted to developing new technology
and uses his athletic abilities and mechanical engineering degree to design
super soldier weapons and products to become a super hero called “VIPER!”
Villain:Viper’s villain is called “Dead Eye EMP”:
a rejected one-eyed electronics specialist fixed on stopping anything electronic
through explosive Electromagnetic Pulse devices he plants around the earth.
Dr. Ditto Storyline:A mild manner veterinarian,
Dontrell has been asked to work late and file papers for his clients after a
long days work.Not wanted to stay after
work, he starts to make copies of files and ends up falling asleep on the
copier while it was running.As the
copier light runs and continues to run against his eyes while he sleeps, he wakes up to realize that he now
has this ability to mimic any person, ability and attribute of anything he can
see with his eyes.
Now, Dontrell learns that he must use his newly found powers
of duplicating to save the world by backing up their data and any information
that is important to keep the world from losing their history as the super
hero, “Dr. Ditto.”
Villain:Dr. Ditto’s villain is called “White Out”:a crazy-minded disaster-recovery reject that
enjoys erasing information from everyone’s memory, hard drive and even
existence altogether.
All students in the EduSerc Super Hero STEM Training program enhance their academics through this program and have already expressed becoming an engineer as a result.
About EduSerc
EduSerc (pronounced “ej-u-serk”) stands for Educators Serving the Community. EduSerc is a 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt, non-profit organization that dedicates itself to the development and advancement of youth and the community across the nation. Founded in 1996, the focus of the organization is to build an infrastructure of resources to strategically and creatively address needs in the community that involve education.
EduSerc’s primary directive and core capability is career and professional development. Through our network of corporate and community resources, EduSerc leverages partnerships to streamline community service efforts and enhance the value of corporate initiatives that benefit young people.
EduSerc’s newest initiative to excite students into a career
in STEM is a journey in research, technology and leadership.
T.E.X.T. 
