The Summer Transportation Institute (STI) at UMass Amherst is sponsored by the
Federal Highway Department and the Executive Office of Transportation, and is
designed to expose rising 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th graders to the field of
transportation. We are actively recruiting students for this summer
and hope that
it may be of some interest to your current students. The program is
Federally funded
so there is
no cost to the students if they are accepted.
To give you some idea of what STI is the program runs Monday to
Friday from 9:30am
to 4:30pm for the from June 30th to July 25. We use one of the
interactive classrooms in the college of engineering, so every
student gets a new
computer with a flat screen and high speed internet. UMass faculty, staff,
and graduate students provide lectures and lead discussions
throughout the program.
Students also participate in preparing project presentations in teams,
and all sorts of hands on activities. We take about a half dozen field trips,
including things like a cruise of Boston Harbor and a visit to the State House
to see the govenor speak. We also include some purely recreational
activities such
as indoor rock climbing, and kayaking on the CT. River.
Interest particpants or those with questions should feel free to
contact Dr. Michael
Knodler in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at
UMass-Amherst
via phone or email at 413.545.0228 or mknodler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, respectively.
