Looking to the Future of STEM in Afterschool: The Time is Right
Q + A with Paul Sereno from the Eodromaeus Announcement
Two of Project Exploration’s partner schools got a sneak peek at the science – and prepared questions for Paul Sereno for the January 13, 2011 press announcement and live webcast.
Their questions are below. Watch the video for Paul’s answers to the questions during the press announcement.
We are extremely grateful to Project Exploration’s Neil Campbell Fellows Graciela Macias, Marianne Madsen and the Haugan Science Team here in Chicago and Sarah Barnum and the girls at our Palo Alto, CA partner school, Castilleja, who worked… Continue reading
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From Sci Foo to You
Here it is as promised: the report back from Sci Foo 2010.
When three information-powerhouses (Google, O’Reilly and Nature) convene a bunch of scientists and science-thinkers one of the immediate results is that even waiting on line becomes fun.
I barely boarded the bus taking campers from the hotel to the Googleplex before I had Tom Fuller of nextjump willingly introducing me to the world of internet-based rewards and loyalty programs – which, in turn got us talking about new ways Project Exploration can pull tools… Continue reading
Commencement: Innovate to Educate; Update 4 from Washington, DC
On January 6th, the day the 22 Presidential Mentors received their awards for excellence in science, mathematics and engingeering mentoring, the Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation, Cora Marrett, closed the ceremony with the following words. “This is a commencement.”
A commencement. The beginning of starting something.
None of us who spent four days in Washington for the award symposium and ceremony knew the following when we arrived:
That we’d be part of an extradordinary group of passionate educators dedicated to making change at all levels of the… Continue reading
President Obama Recognizes Project Exploration’s Junior Paleontologists in Remarks to the Nation – Update 3 from Washington, DC
January 6th, 2010
9:30pm EST
Today President Barack Obama commended Project Exploration’s Junior Paleontologists program in his remarks to the nation during the second “Educate to Innovate” event. He said,
“…whether it’s helping young people from tough neighborhoods in Chicago to become “Junior Paleontologists,” or creating a mentoring program that connects engineering students with girls and minorities, who are traditionally underserved in the field — all of you are demonstrating why teaching and mentoring is so important, and why we have to support you, equip you, and send in… Continue reading
“It’s not a pipeline, it’s a watershed.” Update 2 from the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, Engineering Mentoring Symposium
January 5, 2010
Today launched bright and early with group work. The question on the table: what’s up with mentoring?
I was part of a group of Awardees mentoring at a programmatic level (in contrast to working as individuals at an institution or looking at how to build mentoring communities institionally, though as we got into the thick of things it became clear that these three strands- individual, prgorammatic and institutional mentoring are inseparable.
The folks in the “program” group: Valerie Wilson, Leadership Alliance; Laura Bottomley,… Continue reading
“Did you ask a good question today?” Update 1 from the Presidential Award Symposium and Ceremony
Huffington Post Publishes OP-ED, “Can You Tell Me How to Get to Science Street?
Hot on the screen! Earlier this morning “Huffpo” (as I’ve learned it’s called by people way more in the “know-po” than me) published an Opinion Editorial piece I submitted.
Check out “Can You Tell Me How to Get to Science Street?” on the Huffington Post website. It’s a piece I wrote in response to the recent launch of “Educate to Innovate,” a major new national initiative that brings together corporations, foundations and education efforts to light a flame on the bunsen burner of science engagement.
My… Continue reading
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