A Few More STEM Links Worth a Look
KIDS Consortium and the Maine Math and Science Alliance are collaborating on another two-part workshop in a couple of weeks for a group of out-of-school teachers and in-school teachers in Massachusetts called, Prepare and Inspire! Strategies for Blending Research-Based STEM Instruction with High Quality Service-Learning. The collaboration between KIDS and MMSA had yielded some great work over the last couple of years. You can learn more by visiting the Youth as Citizen Scientists: Data, Insight and Action through Service-Learning. While doing some prep for the workshop over the last couple of days I came across a few new links to STEM related information—all the links are relevant to integrating STEM and service-learning.
Links to get your STEM fix:
Out-of-School Time Drawing Girls Into STEM is an article this week’s in Education Week.
Go to the Education Week home page to register for a free webinar on STEM focused schools. The webinar is January 17.
This blog post on the STEM Connector site: January is Mentor Month! discusses STEM mentors helping students using the MentorNet program. MentorNet could help you find wonderfully qualified community partners for service learning projects.
The last link is to a blog by the Minnesota Campus Compact Network. The title of the post is Motivation. It has statistics that suggest the motivation students need to enter STEM fields and what we can all do to help.
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