Stamford STEM Conference Participants

Stamford Educators and Administrators at the 

GEF NASA/NSTA STEM Integration Conference 2012

Brian Butera's S'cool project on CBS web site.

The story of Brian Butera's class was just picked up by the AP and published on the CBS web site!  Pretty cool!

See the link... http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/06/23/connecticut-middle-school-students-provide-nasa-with-valuable-data/

Jim :-)

ps- Thanks to Louise McMinn for finding this link, and of course, to Brian and his students for all of their amazing work!

Brian Butera's 6th graders help NASA!!

Here is a great article about the work that Brian and his students are doing with NASA satellite data at TOR!

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/default/article/Sixth-graders-help-NASA-in-science-class-3637952.php

101 ways to get our kids unplugged this Summer!

Please pass these links along to your students to see if they might try any of these activities this summer.

Here are 101 Science things to do during the Summer!

Also, here is another link to explore ... Summer Science Fun

Have a great break!  You all deserve it for what you do for kids everyday.

All the best.

Jim :-)

Congrats to Westhill's FFA program!

     It was a thrill last night to attend the Westhill Agriscience program FFA Awards Dinner.  Many award and recognitions were distributed to the well deserving students, teachers and adult leaders.  To find out more about this amazing program based at Westhill please head to their web page @ http://www.westhillweb.com/agriscience-program.aspx   There you will find out how to join this program or how to connect to the doggy dare care/grooming and many argriscience related events that they sponsor annually!  (like the plant sale pictured above)

Stamford STEM team at CSTA event!

   Several member of the Stamford STEM community attended a CSTA sponsored - Beardsley Zoo Behind the Scenes tour yesterday.  It was a fun event that allowed us to get unique insights from the zoo team and unique access to spaces that are not open tot he public!  The event ended with a group discussion that touched on the topics of CCSS an NGSS.  Many interesting perspectives were shared.  I would encourage anyone to attend this when it is offered again!  Special tanks to Louise McMinn for promoting the event.  It was fun to be there with Mike, Dana, Carrie and Beth as well!

The picture above is of Kristen Record who manages the CSTA FB page and is a highly awarded and regarded science teacher in CT! 

Stamford Teachers present at the STEM FORUM in Atlantic City!

Scofield MMS teachers Eileen Wargo, Karen Kulish and Fran D'Agostino did a great job presenting their STEM project connecting math and science and the concepts of force and motion!

Here are some images from their well attended and well received session at the event last Friday morning!  People could not get enough of their ideas and materials!  Well done.