From Akamai Intern to PDP Instructor: The Coupled Impact on Becoming a STEM Professional

dc.contributor.author Chu, Devin
dc.contributor.author Barnes, Austin
dc.contributor.author Sueoka, Stacey
dc.contributor.author Irvine, Joshua Lelemia
dc.date.accessioned 2022-11-30T19:49:19Z
dc.date.available 2022-11-30T19:49:19Z
dc.date.issued 2022-09-03
dc.description.abstract The Akamai Internship in Hawai‘i and the Professional Development Program (PDP) address key issues of sustaining a diverse, equitable, and inclusive STEM workforce in industry and academia. Established in 2002, the Akamai program builds capacity to overcome the brain-drain workforce problem that Hawaiʻi faces by connecting local undergraduate students with internship opportunities in the STEM industries on the islands of Maui and Hawaiʻi. The PDP provides opportunities for graduate students, early-career scientists and industry leaders to learn effective andragogical practices for teaching science and engineering to the next generation at the undergraduate level. A unique, grounding aspect of the Akamai program across all cohorts is a week-long course preparing interns to work with their local industry partners and build an inclusive community. The course is co-led by Akamai program staff and PDP alumni in collaboration with PDP design teams who run complementary inquiry learning activities. Since the first cohort of 2003, 451 interns and around 100 design team members have participated in Akamai. Of the 451 interns who participated in the Akamai program, at least 8 participants have become PDP design team members. The purpose of this panel discussion is to feature four of those alumni that participated in both Akamai and PDP programs. The panelists will share the factors that influenced them to become a PDP instructor as well as highlight the impacts that both programs had in shaping their respective life and career pathways. en_US
dc.format.extent 11 pages en_US
dc.identifier.citation Chu, D.S., Barnes, A., Sueoka, S., & Irvine, L. (2022). From Akamai intern to PDP instructor: The coupled impact on becoming a STEM professional. pp. 437–446 in S. Seagroves, A. Barnes, A.J. Metevier, J. Porter, & L. Hunter (Eds.), Leaders in effective and inclusive STEM: Twenty years of the Institute for Scientist & Engineer Educators. UC Santa Cruz: Institute for Scientist & Engineer Educators. https://escholarship.org/uc/isee_pdp20yr en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10790/7295
dc.language.iso en-US en_US
dc.publisher UC Santa Cruz: Institute for Scientist & Engineer Educators en_US
dc.relation.uri https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5mv3k3p7 en_US
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States *
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ *
dc.subject Akamai en_US
dc.subject Internship programs en_US
dc.subject Hawaii--Maui en_US
dc.subject STEM Identity en_US
dc.title From Akamai Intern to PDP Instructor: The Coupled Impact on Becoming a STEM Professional en_US
dc.type Book Chapter en_US
dc.type.dcmi Text en_US
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