Engineering For Kids featured in The Huffington Post

Engineering For Kids featured in The Huffington Post in an article titled, "Women in Business: Q&A with Dori Roberts, CEO and Founder of Engineering for Kids." The article is about Dori as a leader in franchising and education. Dori elaborates on maintaining a work/life balance and issues for women in the workplace. Click here for the entire article or begin below.

Women in Business: Q&A with Dori Roberts, CEO and Founder of Engineering for Kids
By: Laura Dunn

Engineering for Kids comes from the mind of educator Dori Roberts. With an extensive educational background in math and technology education, Roberts taught engineering at the high school level for 11 years. During her teaching career, she saw a dire need for math, science and engineering programs. To fill this void, she started an afterschool club that participated in various engineering and science-based competitions.

After membership hit 180 students and the group won multiple state championships, she decided to tailor the program and apply it to a wider age demographic. Engineering for Kids offers a suite of programs for children ages 4 to 14 introducing them to science, technology, engineering and math through a variety of workshops all aimed at developing problem solving skills.

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Engineering for Kids in the Queens Chronicle

Engineering for Kids in the Queens Chronicle in an article titled, "Boro youth show off engineering skills." The article begins with some details about the Saturday classes offered by De and Lupita Chen and how it’s making kids excited to learn the STEM fields. The article goes into detail about the specific egg drop activity that took place during this particular session, and how the kids engineered their egg vessels. The article then gives more information about Engineering for Kids, how it supplements STEM education, and ends with information about the future of the Chens’ program. Click here for the entire article or begin below.

Boro youth show off engineering skills
By: Domenick Rafter

It’s Saturday morning in Jackson Heights. Outside the Renaissance Charter School at 81st Street and 37th Avenue, young children begin filing into the facility for class.

But there is little resistance to going into a classroom at 10 a.m. on a weekend. Instead, these kids, who range in age from 6 to 13, are excited and anticipatory.

Lupita Chen, one of their two instructors, tells a parent the plan for today.

“They’re going to develop protective packaging for eggs and drop them from different heights,” she said. “The kids are going to have fun with it.”

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Engineering For Kids on Daily Worth

Engineering For Kids on Daily Worth in an article titled, "How We Turned Our Passions Into Profits." The article is a compilation of stories from women who turned their passion into a business. Dori is the third woman featured and talks about how Dori founded Engineering For Kids, details about the business, and how Dori continues to stay passionate about providing STEM education to the next generation of engineers.  Click here for the entire article or begin below.

How We Turned Our Passions Into Profits

By: Nancy Mann Jackson

Dori Roberts, 39, Stafford, Va.

Her passion: A mother and a teacher, Dori Roberts is passionate about education — specifically, science, technology, engineering and math, also known as STEM subjects. Frustrated about the lack of STEM education available for her students and her ownchildren, Roberts started an after-school club to give them more exposure to math, science and engineering.

Turning it into a business: The after-school STEM club was so popular and grew so much that Roberts turned it into a business in 2009. Engineering for Kids provides enrichment programs to children ages 4 to 14 through preschool programs, after-school classes, workshops, in school field trips and birthday parties. Children learn engineering concepts and problem solving through hands-on activities such as LEGO robotics, designing and building rockets and developing their own electronic games.

Finding success: After starting with one location in Stafford, Va., Roberts has built the business into 84 franchised locations across the country.

Maintaining the passion: “The children inspire me,” Roberts says. “I am always looking for new ways to inspire the next generation ofengineers. This is where my passion comes from.”

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Engineering for Kids in Entrepreneur Magazine

Engineering for Kids in Entrepreneur Magazine in an article titled, "Intel Engineer Shares Her Passion With the Next Generation." The article talks focused on Shu-ling Garver, a native of China, who came to the U.S. in 1986 after receiving a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from a university in Shanghai. Once arriving in the United States, she received both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science and Engineering. Garver has worked for Intel since 1989 as an engineering manager and marketing manager enabling the industry with Intel Architecture. At Intel, she also dedicated herself to engaging female engineers, mentoring them and getting young girls involved in the industry. With this background, becoming an owner for Engineering for Kids was a perfect fit.  Click here for the entire article or begin below.

Intel Engineer Shares Her Passion With the Next Generation

By: Jason Dailey

When Shu-ling Garver was growing up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, opportunity was not a word she understood. Her father, an English teacher by profession, was labeled a political enemy and forced to dig tunnels. The family lived in a Shanghai back alley. It was a terrible time, but the little girl studied hard and learned English from her father and the radio.

Garver appeared to have no chance of making it out of the slums. But when she turned 17, she was surprised to learn that she was allowed to apply for college. After completing two years at a technical school in Shanghai, she transferred to Portland State University in Oregon, where she graduated in 1989 with a degree in computer science. She was recruited by Intel and has been working for the chip manufacturer ever since.

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Allentown Engineering For Kids in The Messenger-Press

Engineering For Kids featured in The Messenger-Press in an article titled, "After-school program helps to encourage engineering." The article focuses on how Engineering for Kids in Central Jersey – Mercer and Monmouth Counties offers enrichment programs for children ages 4-14 at Stonebridge Middle School in Allentown. The article also talks about the Lego Robotics Olympiad program that is offered at the middle school and the different Olympic games that the children play with them. Furthermore, the article talks about how Neha looks to add more after school programs in the area next year and to get local children into robotic competitions.  Click here for the entire article or begin below.

After-school program helps to encourage engineering

By: Amy Batista

ALLENTOWN — A new program is being offered in summer camps and after-school programs where kids can discover the world of engineering and have fun in the process.

”Engineering for Kids” is an enrichment program offered for children ages 4 -14 at Stonebridge Middle School in Allentown and Millstone Elementary School.

The Fredericksburg, Virgina-based program is typically six to eight weeks long and can range from an hour to hour and half in length.

The program is part of national franchise offering a range of learning-based classes including after-school programs, camps, evening classes, in-school field trips, workshops and birthday parties.

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Engineering For Kids in The Southern Illinoisan

Engineering For Kids in The Southern Illinoisan in an article titled, "Business focuses on teaching kids about engineering." The article focuses on how Engineering for Kids is looking to expand across the state of Illinois and about the first location opening in Naperville. The article also talks about how Dori began her business in 2009 and expanded the Engineering for Kids to 22 states and three international locations since 2009. Furthermore, Chris LeBreck talks about the excellent opportunity in being a franchisee, and how him and his wife were looking for an educational focused business in Naperville to open up. Overall, the article describes what Engineering for Kids is and what the brand could offer to communities in Southern Illinois.  Click here for the entire story or begin below.

Business focuses on teaching kids about engineering

By: Scott Fitzgerald

A business designed to enhance student interest in engineering is looking to expand in Illinois by way of franchising. 

“We have several prospects from Illinois across the state. Once we opened one location in Naperville, word gets out. It kind of grows organically,” said founder/owner Dori Roberts of Engineering for Kids, an enrichment program for students ages 4 through 14 that offers a curriculum program during afterschool hours and summers.

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Engineering For Kids launches Structures We Love Contest!

Send us photos of you and monuments, bridges, or landscapes from your travels into our Structures We Love contest here: http://bit.ly/EFKLove! Enter to win this and more: http://bit.ly/184IHSL