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STEM Innovator® Ed Camp brings teachers to campus
Annual STEM Innovator® Ed Camp for teachers gets under way the week of July 23 on the University of Iowa campus. Nearly 50 educators are registered for this year's camp, which is designed to help teachers get the most from their STEM Innovator®professional development, as well as build and evolve their innovation models.
Leslie Flynn, PhD, co-creator of STEM Innovator®and University of Iowa professor of STEM innovation and entrepreneurship, is lead facilitator of the camp. Jacobson Institute Director Dawn Bowlus, co-creator of STEM Innovator,® will be there as well.
Iowa, Minnesota teachers attempt to draw various lessons from printmaking
Teachers from Iowa and Minnesota watched intently last week as members of the Lasansky family — Tomas, Charlie, Rory, Heather and Diego — inked intricate prints with a 1970s-era press. The teachers, mostly math and science instructors attending the STEM Innovator program at the University of Iowa, were looking for ways they could incorporate the arts and entrepreneurship into their lessons. Read more online.
UI program explores the science of art
A years-long unexpected partnership between a University of Iowa chemist and a family of artists in Iowa City led a training discussion Wednesday for Iowa high school teachers about the intersections between art, science, engineering and technology. Read more online.
STEM Innovator course provides students with real-world puzzles
To blend public and private-sector expertise with traditional coursework in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), a new STEM Innovator Business Innovation course was developed at the Kirkwood Regional Center at the University of Iowa, which opened in fall 2015. Read more online.
Education, business, engineering colleges help power new Kirkwood Regional Center
Kirkwood’s name may get top billing on the sign in front of the community college’s fourth regional center, which formally opened with great fanfare Thursday, but beating in the heart of the 100,000-square-foot building is a strong University of Iowa presence. Read more online.
Davenport West students work on life-saving product
After nearly a year of researching, designing, engineering, building, programming and testing, Davenport West High School’s 11-member Endotherm team is close to serving up a final product: a bracelet for children that the students hope will prevent vehicular heat-stroke deaths. Read more online.
Students explore interests through Genius Hour
Riem Hassan wants to tackle poverty. Ivan Ramos wants people to stop killing spiders. Demetrious Ramirez wants improved education for American Indians on reservations. Using these interests as springboards, seventh-graders Hassan, Ramos and Ramirez are developing projects during a new activity at South East Junior High called Genius Hour. Read more online.
Entrepreneurship and innovation in the K-12 STEM classroom
There's good news and bad news about K-12 education in Iowa. The bad news of from Arne Duncan, the U.S. Secretary of Education (2011): "Iowa has started slowly slouching toward educational mediocrity." The good news? In response to Duncan's call to action, the Iowa Governor's STEM Council was formed to coordinate reform efforts. Read more online.
UI hosts Innovation Institute: tech, entrepreneurship camp
West High junior Michael Abdo is fascinated by science and technology. And someday, the 16-year-old says he will be an engineer. Read more online.
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