NYU Poly Fellows + 400 Students + Robots = Fun
Fellows from NYU Poly joined students and teachers from elementary and middle schools in Brooklyn for the FIRST Lego League competition. NYU Poly has sponsored this event for 12 years. GK-12 fellows worked with teams from their schools.
Read the article. [pdf]
Posted on January 18, 2012
Congressman Miller Meets UNC Greensboro GK12
GK12 Fellows and faculty from UNC Greensboro met with Congressman Brad Miller during a campus visit. Fellows discussed their partnerships with students and teachers in the Guilford County Schools.
Read article in UNC Greensboro Campus Weekly.
Posted on December 8, 2011
Fellows Submit STEM Research Abstracts
GK12 Fellows are invited to submit abstracts about their STEM research for presentation on Friday afternoon, March 16, in the Atrium at the National Science Foundation. 25 to 30 Fellows will be chosen to present by a committee of program staff from NSF and AAAS. To be considered, Fellows must describe their STEM research as well as how they integrate aspects of it into K-12 classrooms, schools, or out-of-school settings. The deadline for submitting research poster abstracts is January 30, 2012. The selections will be announced on or before February 13, 2012.
Submit your STEM research abstract.
Posted on December 7, 2011
Submit a Workshop Proposal for 2012 GK-12 Conference
Projects are invited to submit proposals for workshops to be presented on Saturday and Sunday, March 17-18, 2011. Workshops should focus on activities that were vital to the success of your project and that represent “promising practices.” Could these “winning” strategies be adapted by other GK-12 projects as well as other efforts that seek to engage graduate students in schools and K-12 students in STEM? The target areas listed in the application are suggestive only. If you have an idea other than those shown, please propose it. The deadline for submitting workshop proposals is January 30, 2012 with notification on or before February 6, 2012.
Submit your workshop proposal.
Posted on December 7, 2011
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Announces Collaborative Research Travel Grants
This program provides up to $15,000 in support for researchers from degree-granting institutions to travel either domestically or internationally to a laboratory to acquire a new research technique, to facilitate a collaboration, or to attend a laboratory/lecture course. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. or be currently studying in a Ph.D. program in mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science, statistics, or engineering and interested in investigating research opportunities in the biological sciences. Biologists interested in working with physical scientists, mathematicians, engineers, chemists, statisticians, or computer scientists to incorporate their ideas and approaches to answering biological questions are eligible. Apply by December 1, 2011.
See information and online application.
Posted on September 28, 2011
NYU-Poly GK-12 Reports on Mechatronics Mania in IEEE Magazine
Fellows N. Abaid and C. Yuvienco and PIs V. Kapila and M. Iskander describe Mechatronics Mania in the October 2011 issue of IEEE Control Systems Magazine. The NYU-Poly team presented this informal learning exhibit at the inaugural USA Science and Engineering Festival Expo held in Washington, DC in October 2010. In the article, they report on the formulation and components of the projects in the exhibit, the reflections of participating fellows and teachers, and the results of a survey of visitors that included demographic information, interest in STEM, and knowledge of mechatronics gained from interactions at the exhibit.
Read Mechatronics Mania at the Inaugural USA Science and Engineering Festival from IEEE Control Systems Magazine, October 2011.
Posted on September 27, 2011
Boston U GLACIER Fellows Seek Presenters for Poster Session at AAG Meeting
GLACIER Fellows have organized a poster session, “Geospatial Technologies in the K‑12 Classroom,” for the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, in New York City on February 24‑28, 2012. The session will highlight how geospatial data and tools used in higher education and scientific research can be incorporated into K-12 curricula. Topics include uses of GIS and remote sensing data, Google Earth functionality and layers, and GPS. Current and alumni Fellows are invited to join the BU Fellows at this session.
Interested? Contact Valerie Pasquarella, valpasq@bu.edu, for information on registration and abstract submission. Abstract deadline is September 28, 2011.
Posted on September 13, 2011
Stevens Institute of Technology Highlights GK-12 Fellows’ Research
Fellows Milan Begliarbekov and Jon Belkowitz have been recognized for their research studies as well as their work with high school teachers in the greater Hoboken area to develop standards-based teaching modules. Begliarbekov has published two papers on his ground-breaking research of graphene. Belkowitz is doing research into the optimal use of nanosilica to create a new concrete mixture.
Read about Fellows Begliarbekov and Belkowitz.
Posted on September 13, 2011
Study Says Grad Students’ Teaching Experiences Improve Research Skills
An article in the August 19 issue of SCIENCE describes a study whose results showed that graduate students who both taught and conducted research demonstrate significantly greater improvement in their abilities to generate testable hypotheses and design valid experiments. The authors believe that these results indicate that teaching experience can contribute substantially to the improvement of essential research skills.
Read the SCIENCE article. [pdf]
Posted on September 7, 2011
2012 Meeting for Projects – March 16-18
The annual meeting for GK-12 projects will be held on March 16-18, 2012 in Washington, DC at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill. All members of GK-12 projects are invited to attend. Single and double rates at the Hyatt are $194 plus tax. You can now reserve a room using the Passkey online system.
The deadline for reserving a room is February 16, 2012.
Posted on August 15, 2011
