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
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
Chicago LISC highlights Sisters4Science – and the value of after-school for student engagement.
In the new issue of LISC’s newsletter, there’s a feature article about the value of afterschool to student engagement at Perspectives Calumet Middle School. The featured program? Sisters4Science. Way to go girls!!!
LISC/Chicago organizes capital and other resources to support initiatives that will stimulate the comprehensive development of healthy, stable neighborhoods and foster their connection to the socioeconomic mainstream of the metropolitan region. As the Broader-Bolder Approach to Education (among others) has documented, access to high-quality out-of-school experiences is one of the key contributors to the persistence of the… Continue reading
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Project Exploration Cofounder Paul Sereno Interviewed on WTTW Chicago Tonight, 7:30pm
TUNE IN TONIGHT to Chicago Tonight!
October 16, 2009 from 7:30-8:00pm (CST) on Channel 11, WTTW
During this half-hour feature interview, journalist Phil Ponce interviews Project Exploration President and Cofounder Dr. Paul Sereno. Meet Paul’s newest dinosaur, Raptor rex. Hear about how Paul developed an interest in science and paleontology, and how he created Project Exploration to increase access to science for the kids most likely to be left of the wonders of science and discovery.
Click HERE to can see a preview of the Friday night… Continue reading
Wondering What Kids Can Do?
Check out Joanna Klonsky’s recent feature story on Project Exploration in What Kids Can Do. Her story profiles two Project Exploration students and our core youth development programs and traces the idea behind the launch of the organization. What Kids Can Do combs the country for compelling examples of young people working with adults in their schools and communities on the real-world issues that concern them most. You can check out Joanna’s story – and other voices and work from the next generation HERE.
Introducing the Project Exploration Science Teacher Field Institute Fellows (and a feature story in the Billings Gazette!)
Project Exploration’s Science Teacher Field Institute was featured in yesterday’s Billings Gazette. We’re 50 miles from the closest newspaper vendor and so the teachers heard it read out loud to them by Project Exploration’s resident Astronomer, Mark Hammergren, (who, among other things is a planetary geologist and named an asteroid after Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling). Surrounding Mark were this year’s Fellows, and the Project Exploration science crew -Dr. Jason Moore, paleontologist and geologist from Texas A&M University, geologist Erin Craney of Missoula, Montana and teaching assistant Matt… Continue reading
PROJECT EXPLORATION IN THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE – July 17, 2009
“Chicago-based Project Exploration wins a presidential award for science education
Project Exploration stirs interest in fields unfamiliar to many kids.”
Check out the full story in the Chicago Tribune article by Robert Mitchum.
(photo courtesy Michael Ramirez, for Project Exploration)
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