About MOTOR
The Missouri Teaching Outreach (MOTOR) Program is the hands-on education program of the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT). At it's most basic level, MOTOR is a program designed for integration into science, math, and social studies classes.
In actual practice, MOTOR sends volunteer MoDOT professionals into secondary schools. This consists of a computer, electronic data collection and analysis instruments, hands-on modeling materials, and more than three dozen other types of activities based on real-world transportation problems.
By engaging students in solving real-world problems, MOTOR connects kids to the work world of transportation. And MOTOR's specific focus of improving work force diversity helps in resolving one of the most pressing problems faced by this predominately white male profession: how to draw talented women and minorities into the field of transportation. MoDOT has implemented the program in middle and high schools throughout the state of Missouri, including our Partner in Education, Thomas Jefferson Middle School in Jefferson City, Missouri.
For more information about the MOTOR Program please contact the MoDOT Equal Opportunity and Diversity Division at 573-526-5611 or via email at equalopportunity@modot.mo.gov |
