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Item Enhancing PBL authenticity by engaging STEM professional volunteers(Purdue University, 2021) Nicholas, Celeste; Scribner, J. Adam; Global Health, School of Public HealthThe article profiles a project addressing a central issue in reform-driven STEM education – the need to align educational experiences with real-world STEM. We profile an interdisciplinary project which aimed for authenticity by: 1) purposefully designing an authentic PBL project and 2) incorporating STEM professional volunteers as facilitators. Volunteers enhanced authentic elements of the project task (e.g., open-ended task, accountability) and context (e.g., autonomy, collaboration). Volunteers alleviated pedagogical barriers to PBL – their expertise allowed both volunteers and teachers to take up the facilitator roles foundational to PBL. Professional volunteers can play vital roles in STEM capacity-building initiatives, including those seeking to broaden participation. Further research is needed to understand how to best prepare and utilize volunteers in a variety of classroom roles, including as PBL facilitators.Item Microfinance/Women’s Empowerment in Sierra Leone: Civic Entrepreneurship, Advocacy and the Power of Partnerships(2017-04-11) Hook, Sara Anne; Tonsing, BettyThis poster will highlight microfinance/women’s empowerment projects in Sierra Leone, administered by Right Sharing of World Resources (RSWR) and funded by the Rotary Club of Indianapolis. This example of civic entrepreneurship will demonstrate how providing women with the opportunity to start their own small companies contributes to building a support system and sense of community and addresses the need for social, economic and political stability in a country recovering from civil war and devastating disease. The poster will feature the results of efforts to redesign the RSWR website and develop a social media marketing strategy.