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October 2009 STEM related EVENTS
Date: Oct 13th,2009
Location: Lakeshore Technical College (LTC)
Contact: Karen.showers@wtcsystem.edu
A pilot project is being conducted in the Lakeshore Technical College(LTC) District cooperatively between Sheboygan North and South High Schools, Plymouth High School, the Manitowoc School District and LTC to examine data, course taking patterns and more to identify potential root causes for low participation of girls in STEM and STEM-related programs at the secondary and post-secondary levels. These schools/districts and technical college are building on relationships established as a result of past experience conducting and supporting career exploration activities. This multi-year project, with a more intense year-long commitment, will impact future strategies, school-based or school/community-based, to support students in STEM career choices. The participants' experience with a five-step improvement process brings together data analysis to inform future instructional and service delivery.
Date: October 10th, 2009
Location: Room E101 and E102, Northcentral Technical College Wausau, WI.
Map and directions: www.ntc.edu/maps/index.htm
Time: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Register at: http://www.ngcproject.org/events/events.cfm?eventid=152
Event Flyer: view or downlaod (.pdf)
Sponsor Flyer: view or downlaod (.pdf)
This project, funded by the National Science Foundation and administered by the Great Lakes Girls Collaborative, offers the chance for schools and organizations committed to informing and motivating girls to pursue classes and careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) to come together to share best practices, develop new collaborations, and share resources. The successful career transition of students and the economic future of Wisconsin are tied to increased participation of all students in careers that rely on STEM skills and competencies.
Date: October 20th, 2009
Location: Milwaukee Area Technical College, Room M616
Time: 8:30am- 4:00pm
A day-long meeting of the Wisconsin State Team, STEM Equity Pipeline Project. The meeting will highlight accomplishments of Year 1, review tools under development for STEM equity work, provide an introduction to professional development learning modules and their potential use. Review Wisconsin data. All materials will be posted to the Wisconsin section of the STEM Equity Pipeline Project web site. Any interested individual can register with the Virtual Learning Community by joining the State Team. Participation at the face-to-face meeting on October 20th is not required of all state members and will be most beneficial to those who have been working on the project in Year 1.
Visit the website for more information about the STEM Equity Pipeline Project in Wisconsin. http://www.stemequitypipeline.org
Date: October 20th – 21st, 2009
Location: MATC Milwaukee and the Bradley Center
Time: Day #1- 7:30am – 9pm; Day #2- 8am – 3:15pm
Event Website: http://esmke.jobing.com/default.asp?PageID=10009388
The 6th Annual sySTEMnow Conference is a two day event held at MATC Downtown Campus and the Bradley Center. With the theme “Transition,” the two day conference will feature a STEM Summit at MATC and tours of STEM in Action through the M7 Region. Evening event at the Bradley Center includes a cocktail hour, dinner, presentation of the Stemmys and keynote address by Jon Abele, founder and chairman of Boston Scientific and chairman of FIRST. The second day at the Bradley Center features "Benchmarking Wisconsin's STEM Efforts", a panel discussion moderated by Mike Gousha. In addition to the panel discussion, there will be breakout sessions on critical STEM topics, and exciting project demonstrations by Generation STEM students. For a more detailed agenda and to register, please visit http://www.systemnow.org.
Date: Friday, October 23rd and Saturday, October 24th
Location: Department of Chemistry University of Wisconsin – Madison 1101 University Avenue, Madison
Time: Friday: 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Oral Sessions (General Topics)
Saturday: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Hands-on Workshops 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Oral Sessions (Teaching Techniques for Students with Visual Impairments)
Register at the Event Website: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/greenberg2/web/Science%20Education/Multi-Sensory_Science_Education/Home.html
Event Flyer: view or downlaod (.pdf)
Are you interested in learning about new and exciting teaching techniques to reach your students?
Are you unsure about how to engage students with different learning styles?
If you answered YES to either of these questions, you will be interested in joining us for the first in a series of annual conferences on Multi-Sensory Science Education. This year’s conference will have a theme of teaching students with visual impairments, but also include talks and workshops on science demonstrations, science theater, using haptics for students with disabilities, and kinesthetic teaching techniques. Through a series of talks and hands-on workshops your learn how to integrate these exciting teaching techniques into your classroom and hear about new research findings on multi-sensory teaching and learning.
The conference is free, but pre-registration is required.
Hosted by:
The Institute for Chemical Education
The University of Wisconsin - Madison
The UW-Madison Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center
Independent Laboratory Access for the Blind Project – The Pennsylvania State University
Date: October 26th, 2009
Location: Ullsvik Hall, University of Wisconsin-Platteville campus
Time: 8:15am - 3:15pm
Application Deadline: Monday October 12, 2009
Event Website: http://www.uwplatt.edu/wep/career_day/index.html
Event Flyer: view or downlaod (.pdf)
The program is designed to provide the participants and their guest(s) information about the engineering profession. Participants can expect engaging presentations and activities from UW-Platteville students and faculty as well as the opportunity to get to know other students who are also interested in learning more about engineering. The program is designed to answer questions about UW-Platteville, engineering, and the college experience.
For more information about this event please contact the Director of the Women in Engineering Program, Tammy J. Salmon-Stephens at 608.342.1563 or e-mail her at salmont@uwplatt.edu