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

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dc.contributor.authorChu, Devin
dc.contributor.authorBarnes, Austin
dc.contributor.authorSueoka, Stacey
dc.contributor.authorIrvine, Joshua Lelemia
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-30T19:49:19Z
dc.date.available2022-11-30T19:49:19Z
dc.date.issued2022-09-03
dc.description.abstractThe 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.extent11 pagesen_US
dc.identifier.citationChu, 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_pdp20yren_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10790/7295
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dc.publisherUC Santa Cruz: Institute for Scientist & Engineer Educatorsen_US
dc.relation.urihttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5mv3k3p7en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectAkamaien_US
dc.subjectInternship programsen_US
dc.subjectHawaii--Mauien_US
dc.subjectSTEM Identityen_US
dc.titleFrom Akamai Intern to PDP Instructor: The Coupled Impact on Becoming a STEM Professionalen_US
dc.typeBook Chapteren_US
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