Alltech will host STEMposium 2015 on Sept. 26 at the Locust Trace AgriScience Center in Lexington. The event features breakout sessions with hands-on professional development opportunities for K-12 science teachers. The event allows teachers to learn how to incorporate engineering practices into all sciences, discover how Design Thinking can generate interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and engage [...]
Educators from 22 eastern Kentucky school districts have kicked off an education initiative aimed at building a STEM-based (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) by creating new opportunities for teachers through National Board Certification. They were joined by Gov. Steve Beshear and Rep. Hal Rogers, co-chairmen of SOAR – Shaping Our Appalachian Region, in a ceremony July 20 at Clay County [...]
The Center for Learning with Nature is offering a free online professional development workshop this summer for middle school and high school STEM teachers. The training will help teachers learn to use the new “Engineering Inspired by Nature” curriculum, which applies ideas from the natural world to human technologies. It will be held for five consecutive days in June or [...]
An after school bicycle club is sparking Holmes Middle School students’ interest in science, technology, engineering and math.
Students in Anderson County Middle School's STEM class are finding solutions for problems that might affect the world they live in years from now as part of an innovative project.
Students in grades 5-12 can design and propose real microgravity experiments to fly in low-Earth orbit on the International Space Station in the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Mission 9 to the International Space Station (ISS). This STEM education opportunity immerses about 300 students in an authentic, high-visibility research experience. One experiment in each community is selected for flight to [...]
Across the state 160 school districts as well as the Kentucky School for the Blind and Kentucky School for the Deaf are participating in Operation Preparation 2015. Four districts attended daylong events at Kentucky State University in Frankfort last week.
Kentucky State University’s College of Agriculture, Food Science, and Sustainable Systems is accepting applications for its Agriculture, Food and Environment (AFE) Academy for high school teachers June 18-19. Up to 20 teachers will have the opportunity to integrate innovative, hands-on experience with new and emerging STEM concepts and teaching strategies tied to the Kentucky Core Academic Standards and the Next [...]
Breckinridge County Area Technology Center students have joined a program in which they are creating training hardware for NASA.
The eCybermission web-based STEM competition is seeking more than 2,000 virtual judges to evaluate entries from the nearly 28,000 students enrolled in the competition. Sponsored by the U.S. Army, the competition involves teams of students in grades 6-9 are submitting entries in which they propose a solution to a real problem in their community. Volunteers will independently evaluate and score [...]