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STEM Innovator® Named IA Governor's STEM Scale-Up Program for Iowa Educators
STEM Innovator® was named an IA Governor's STEM Scale-Up Program for Iowa educators in the 2020 - 2021 academic year. Through legislative appropriation, the Iowa Governor's STEM Advisory Council is able to offer exemplary STEM programs throughout the state.
Buchanan earns STEM Innovator® certification
Jason Buchanan, Kenston Forest School director of technology, has become a STEM Innovator®Certified Teacher. He successfully completed the STEM Innovator®teacher certification from the University of Iowa. Read more online.
Hawkeyes hit the capital
A sense of pride permeated a University of Iowa outreach event in the nation's capital in November. The event included a presidential reception and a Hawkeye Caucus for policymakers to learn about some of the UI's exceptional people and programs. Jacobson Institute Director Dawn Bowlus was there. Read more online.
UI-developed STEM curriculum to be used in national teaching event
A curriculum developed at the University of Iowa that teaches STEM concepts to high school students will be used during the Day of Design, a national STEM education program, held on Oct. 6. Read more online.
Collaboration stems from university program
Through a rare integration of the University of Iowa’s Jacobson Institute for Youth Entrepreneurship and the Colleges of Education and Engineering, a new special program, STEM Innovator, has emerged. Read more online.
STEM Innovator program partners with USPTO
Iowa JPEC's Jacobson Institute for Youth Entrepreneurship has announced a landmark partnership with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). STEM Innovator, along with USPTO, will allow teachers and their students to take intellectual property concepts to the next level. Read more online.
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.
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