Outreach | Community Service Community Outreach

Each semester, Pi Tau Sigma organize outreach and community service programs in Berkeley and the San Francisco Bay area. Our current Lego Mindstorms™ outreach program aims to introduce the concepts of engineering, technology, and learning to the youth of our communities. Furthermore, we serve our local community by providing tutors and mentors to students at Berkeley High School.

Our Outreach Programs

We are currently working on a program geared towards teaching engineering to pre-college age children. This program, generously sponsored by National Instruments, uses Lego Mindstorms™ kits as a means of teaching the computing programming necessary to create a robot for different task.

In addition, we have an active role in community service and tutoring at Berkeley High School. If you are interested in tutoring, please come and talk to us during the general meetings where we can make arrangements for you.

BEAM Berkeley Engineers and Mentors

Pi Tau Sigma is a sponsor of Berkeley Engineers and Mentors (BEAM), a new organization created to provide students at low-income schools and afterschool programs with engaging engineering activities that stimulate their interests in pursuing careers in math, science, and engineering. UC Berkeley students volunteer their time mentoring younger students, learning about science education, and building relationships with their mentees.

Professors Jeff Reimer, Dorian Liepmann, and Albert Pisano have also thrown their full support behind the launch of BEAM and their new decal, ChemE 97/197. Read an excerpt of their letter below, inviting all interested students to join BEAM as a mentor this semester - or, read the full text [pdf].

"We are pleased to announce a new engineering youth mentorship DeCal/program - ChemE 97/197 - Berkeley Engineers and Mentors, which starts in the Fall of 2008. If you have some interest in mentoring the youth, applying science and engineering skills to lead and develop stimulating activities, planning and leading youth outreach effors, or just want to give teaching a try and have fun bettering the communities around you, we strongly urge you to consider ChemE 97/197. If your interes in engineering began with similar outreach programs, now is your chance to influence other students to give engineering a try."

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