This page contains recruitment resources for TAME Regional Leadership, TAME Club Leaders, and anyone in the TAME Ecosystem who would like materials to help spread the word about TAME’s free programs.
Who belongs in engineering? Briana Cuero’s story
2-min video interviewing a TAME alumna about how TAME helped her belong in engineering
Family pictures you’ll be proud to share!
2-min video interviewing two West TX students about how TAME is a family & inspired them to pursue engineering
Email & social media text
Subject line: Toolkits & funding for engineering Clubs in [Location]
- Free Engineering Clubs for students in grades 6-12
- Club Toolkits
- Flexible schedule
- Free Engineering Competitions
- Scholarships
- Register your club: TAME.org/clubreg
- Register at least 8 students: TAME.org/studentreg
TAME is excited to offer toolkits for Engineering Clubs serving Title I campuses and clubs with 60% student members who are underrepresented in STEM (Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, Indigenous/Native American, or girls). Register your club and at least 8 students to get your own TAME Toolkit. TOOLKIT CLOSING DATE: October 12.
Our popular STEM Competitions are free events held in January and February around Texas. Students practice being an engineer for the day and team up to solve real-world challenges.
See Steps for Getting Started: www.tame.org/club
Toolkits: www.tame.org/toolkit
STEM Competitions: www.tame.org/compete
Additional Resources: www.tame.org/resources
Social media examples from previous years
Funding and supplies for STEM clubs across Texas!
Register for free with the Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering (TAME) to get your own #TAMEToolkit shipped to your school or home. DEADLINE 3/31!https://t.co/nPk9OjXolS #LonestarSTEM #TexasStrong pic.twitter.com/x1sQOdfwwI
— TAME (@TAMESTEM) February 24, 2021
Last chance! 1st time TAME Clubs can submit their Club Registration & register the 8 students needed until the end of day today, 11/12! Free, virtual Texas STEM Competitions & STEM club toolkits & funding! Register at https://t.co/hY8ILsFXSU #LonestarSTEM #STEM4all #TexasSTEM pic.twitter.com/m3MoDHtbds
— TAME (@TAMESTEM) November 12, 2020
Printable handouts & brochures
What benefits does a student receive from joining TAME?
Ana’s Story, inspired by true events
A two-page printable PDF handout following a student through 11+ years of free TAME support. We walk you through the experience of one student through middle school, high school, college, and her journey back to TAME later in life as an engineer.
All parts of this story have been inspired by the lived experience of TAME alumni who have shared the impact of TAME on their lives and the lives of their children and grandchildren.
TAME Club Sponsor Guide:
Best Practices & Recipes for a Great TAME Club Meeting
Many Club Sponsors ask us for advice on how to structure meetings, schedules, and activities. We’re offering a guide for TAME Club Sponsors that includes timing, funding, recruitment, suggested guidelines, and many “recipe ideas” for fun in person & virtual meetings:
- past Engineering Design Challenges from Divisionals and State
- guest speaker training and questions
- STEM leadership discussions
- STEAM art project & contest
- college & scholarship workshop
- discussion on science fiction & STEM ethics, and more!
We hope these “recipes” will help you envision some of the ways that your TAME Club can help foster exploration and build a supportive network for your students. (Updated Fall 2023.)
TAME Club Hall of Fame
Here are some of the many activities TAME Clubs have taken on in recent years. (See photos below!)
- Divide the club into teams to practice Engineering Design Challenges from past STEM Competitions
- Invite local engineering professionals and college students to the club as guest speakers
- Host a Family STEM Event
- Gamify your prep for Engineering Competitions with TAME’s design challenges
- Build a Little Free Library based off a famous science fiction character
- Design, build, and race solar cars, then host a local Electrathon to mentor other local schools to start their own programs
- Design, build, and compete with rockets, then visit science fairs to share your work
- Partner with a local library, museum, or university to learn coding, 3D printing, and more
- Challenge students grades 6-12 to mentor elementary-age students by running an informal engineering competition
- Host an engineering challenge in an unusual setting, like designing rafts to float on a swimming pool
- Help your local theatre with projects like designing a replica steam engine prop with working lights and steam
- Volunteer with eco-cleanup days for local parks or run a recycling club
- Learn how to do water quality monitoring or run environmental safety tests on local rivers
- Take the whole club on a field trip to a local university to tour the campus
- Connect with a local engineering employer to bring students on a tour
- Offer extra credit, snacks, and help students with homework and tutoring
- Help graduating seniors apply for TAME Scholarships
- Anything and everything STEM-related that students want to explore!
Many clubs draw ideas from TAME’s curated content on Pinterest.
