Outreach: SENCER Center for Innovation - Midatlantic
The host institution for SCI-Midatlantic is Rutgers University. With more than 50,000 students on campuses in Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick, Rutgers is one of the nation's major public institutions of higher education. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers has a unique history as a colonial college, a land-grant institution, and a state university. The university's 27 degree-granting units offer majors in more than 100 fields, with thousands of courses covering the full range of human experience. Photograph above, at right: Representative Rush Holt (NJ), keynote speaker at the 2010 Capitol Hill Poster Session, with University of Maryland faculty. Photograph by Alyssa Bloom. Areas of Expertise and Focus SCI-Midwest initiatives are open to participants around the U.S. but are primarily designed to address the needs and interests of individuals in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. The SCI-Midatlantic group has broad expertise among its members, but has a particular interest in the assessment of teaching and learning, K-12 STEM education, pre-service teacher education, articulation with two-year institutions.
Recent Events Preparing the Undergraduates of Tomorrow: How Informal Science Education Experiences Can Improve College Readiness Saturday, October 17th from 8:00am – 2:45pm, hosted by Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) The one-day symposium explored opportunities for collaboration and synergy between K-16 education and the informal science education sector in the effort to improve science literacy, graduation rates and college readiness. Featured speakers included David Ucko, deputy division director of research on learning in formal and informal settings for the National Science Foundation, and Alan Friedman, a consultant in museum development and science communication who served as Director of the New York Hall of Science, New York City's public science-technology center, for twenty-two years. Symposium Schedule 8:00-9:00am Breakfast and Registration at Life Sciences Building 9:00-9:15am Welcoming Remarks and Intro 9:15-10:30am Informal Learning and Synergies with Formal Education: An NSF Perspective - David Ucko, Deputy Division Director, Research on Learning in Formal & Informal Settings, National Science Foundation 10:30-10:45am Break 10:45-12:00pm What Can Informal Science Education Do For You? - Alan Friedman, Consultant in Museum Development and Science Education Noon-1:15pm Local Science Museum Resource tables and Luncheon 1:15-1:30pm Walk over to North Museum 1:30-2:45pm Option 1: Program for science educators by North Museum staff using their collections 1:30-2:45pm Option 2: Roundtable Discussion on Conference Topic and How to Move Agenda Forward at National Level Water, Water Everywhere: Connections for Research, Education, and Outreach Saturday, April 4, 2009, Hosted by Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ) Rutgers University hosted a day-long symposium, ‘Water, Water, Everywhere: Connections for Research, Education and Outreach,’ on April 4, 2009 from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm. Presentation topics included research on formal and informal science education, outreach programs for science education, and the SCI-Midatlantic regional water research project and grants program. Preparing the Undergraduates of Tomorrow: The Critical Role of K-8 STEM Education Saturday, October 4, 2008, Hosted by the Center for Liberal Arts and Society at Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster, PA) The conference provided an overview of K-8 science learning, which national reports have identified as the critical gateway to all later STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) achievement, and its specific implications for the improvement of science education at the college level. New York Regional Meeting Friday, June 27, Hosted by Trace Jordan and Godfrey Roberts at Kimball Hall, New York University Leadership Council Planning Meeting May 15, 2008, Hosted by Rutgers University SENCER-Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners Workshop October 19, 2007, Hosted by the American Museum of Natural History How Students Learn: The Implications of Learning Research for Science Education October 6, 2007, Hosted by Franklin & Marshall College SENCER-New York City Planning Meeting June 2007, Hosted by New York University
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