Why has this guide been written?
ASME has developed this guide to hosting meaningful teacher workshops in an effort to help individual sections more effectively support their local teachers and schools.  

This guide has been assembled to assist ASME member engineers in planning, budgeting, promoting and evaluating workshops or almost any activity they might conduct for middle school educators.

Who should read this guide?
If you're an ASME member interested in putting together a workshop to help middle school educators integrate engineering and technological applications into their science, mathematics and technology curriculum, you should read this guide to help you streamline the planning process, learn from others who have hosted similar events, and help insure a successful workshop.

What's the best way to use this guide?
The guide is designed to be user friendly, and to walk you through the steps and issues you should consider when planning an educator workshop.  You may want to share it with other engineers and volunteers who will be working with you in planning your workshop.  It includes timelines and checklists as well as topics you should consider prior to selecting activities, such as the curriculum guidelines and standards for schools in your community.

ASME's Board on Precollege Education (BPC) has held workshops for a decade that bring engineers together middle school science, mathematics, and technology teachers.  With support from the ASME Foundation, in 1999 the BPC began to support local sections wishing to hold similar events to strengthen their support for K-12 education in their communities.  This guide captures the lessons of those early section workshops and is intended as a resource for similar endeavors.