Thursday, May 3, 2012
Daisy Scouts prepare for Mother's Day
Erik LeDuc ebearer@ruidosonews.com
Posted: 05/03/2012 04:47:10 PM MDT
Gregg Russel, still recovering from a systemic surgical infection,... (Erik LeDuc/Ruidoso News)
Capitan students invited to pick up free flowers for mom
The Girl Scouts of America would not be possible without the tireless support of their mothers, who encourage them when they don't place first, chauffer them to meetings and clean up after them.
To show their appreciation, the Daisy Scouts of Pack 85 in Capitan are preparing a greenhouse full of "thank you" flowers for Mother's Day.
The idea sprang from two daisies of Pack 85, Jenna and Ella Herbert, who saw a familiar face in a mural - Erin Aubrey Weems, a student several years ahead of them in Capitan schools who had died three years previously.
"It's neat that the kids remembered, it's neat that they're doing something with it," said Capitan resident Gregg Russel, owner of the wall the mural was painted on.
The girls were visiting Russell while their mother and local nurse, Jessica Herbert, checked on Russel's health after his paralyzing illness. "They came running into the house saying 'Erin (Weems) is on the wall!'"
After seeing the girls' interest, Russel said he volunteered the use of his garden for the scouts to Ashley Ivans, troop leader for Pack 85.
The scouts will practice growing their own flowers as part of their gardening and community service projects, which will earn them two badges.
The flowers, donated by Wal-Mart, will be potted by the scouts on Tuesday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Russell's garden, where the girls will add their handprints to the memorial mural.
"I'm getting my garden a bit trimmed up, so to thank the girls I'm donating a pizza party," Russel said.
While potting and planting in their own corner of the garden the scouts also would learn how to prune grown flowers, he added.
Russel also had donated flower seeds for the scouts, who would be growing their own hollyhocks and sunflowers over the summer, Herbert said. "They're going to plant those in remembrance of Erin (Weems)."
Afterwards, Daisy Scouts will invite area students to stop by the Smokey Bear Historical Park greenhouse between 11 a.m. and noon May 11 to pick out a free flower for Mother's Day, May 13.
The greenhouse is an amazing resource in the village that was being neglected, Russel said. With automated sprinklers, climate control and vented doors, it was perfect for growing beautiful blooms.
Wal-Mart had been generous in previous years by donating flowers for Mother's Day in the village, he said. "I had so many flowers donated from (Wal-Mart) that I almost filled (the greenhouse) the first year."
Friday, April 27, 2012
Lincoln County "Robot Regulators"
Lincoln County ‘Robot Regulators’
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The Lincoln County “Robot Regulators,” a team of students composed of middle school and high school students from Capitan and Carrizozo competed April 14 at the New Mexico Regional Botball Tournament in Las Cruces.
The team consisted of Wade Stearns (Capitan- Grade 8), Clay Bob Stearns (Capitan, Grade 6), Sam Edington (Capitan, Grade 10), Harrison Moore (Capitan, Grade 6), Johnathan Smith (Carrizozo, Grade 10) and Rylah Zamora (Carrizozo, Grade 10).
The Robot Regulators was fully funded by generous support of the KISS Institute for Practical Robotics in Norman, Okla., and their supporters as well as the Society for Science and public donations. The team worked evenings and weekends during the course of several weeks to prepare for the competition.
Coordinator of the team, Ashley Ivins said, “I’m working to try to figure out how to make robotics, engineering and scientific research available to students of Lincoln County since it’s not currently offered in schools. With budget cuts and a back to basics of reading and math attitude, unfortunately it’s not on the horizon.”
The Robot Regulators won a “Judge’s Choice Award for Rookie of the Year” at the event and will be heading to the RoboRAVE state competition on May 5 at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
Read more: Ruidoso Free Press - Lincoln County ‘Robot Regulators’
Students gear up for RoboRAVE
Students gear up for RoboRave
Staff reports tvestal@ruidosonews.com
Posted: 04/26/2012 08:01:17 PM MDT
Gearing up for a competition that pits robot against robot, some local students are tweaking their designs, programs and 'bots to see which robot can deliver the largest payload in three minutes.
Veteran coach and third-grade teacher from Capitan Elementary School, Betsy Peralta, is coaching eight teams for the RoboRAVE International to be held next month in Albuquerque.
Peralta's daughter, Ashley Ivins, is coaching five teams. Ivins' students are from Carrizozo, Capitan and Mescalero.
And new coach Stacie Belcher will take two teams from the elementary and middle schools in Ruidoso.
Robotics has been called the leading integrator of science, technology, engineering and math in education today.
Russ Fisher-Ives, the director of the 11-year-old New Mexico-grown competition agrees.
"When these kids are analyzing torque versus speed, or comparing rates in fractions of a meter per second, they're applying math and science to something they've built," Fisher-Ives said. "And they're learning to think like engineers as they design, test and re-design their robots."
The robots are autonomous so the students also learn the 21st century language of programming.
But for students, the experience may be less about learning and more about fun. The competition will take place on May 5, or as some call it, Cinco De 'Bot-o.
The event will draw more than 1,100 students from 27 of New Mexico's 33 counties, as well as from Colorado, Mexico and Colombia.
The skills that students learn preparing for the competition are highly valued. A January 2012 WANTED Analytics report noted that hiring demand for robotics skills grew 44 percent over the year before, outpacing the supply.
Another report in November by Metra Martech indicated the robotics industry will create over one million jobs during the next five years.
RoboRAVE International will take place at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
Inquiry Facilitators created the program. The non-profit company has a mission to enhance STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education through academic competition, teacher professional development, and support of student research.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
ABQJournal Online » Students Learn To Build a Better Robot
The students at ASK Academy don’t just learn about robotics, they live it year-round.
The city’s first charter school opened in the fall of 2010 with a promise to focus on math, science technology and engineering by using hands-on experience and project-based lesson plans. The robotics program at the school is one of the ways they are trying to achieve that goal, and this year they have an award-winning teacher to help them do it.
Today, Ashley Ivins’ robotics students will take part in their first competition of the year, heading down to Las Cruces for the B.E.S.T. (Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology) robotics competition. It’s the first of four the group will compete in this year. The team is made up of students enrolled in the robotics class, who are also enrolled in the accompanying after-school club.
The Society for Science & the Public named Ivins a Science Fellow in 2010. The organization has been giving the award for three years and chooses only 10 science teachers from around the country each year. That makes Ivins one of only 30 recipients in the United States. Coworker Ray Nance received the award in 2009. As winners, they received training and attended society workshops.
Ivins said students have spent the past six weeks preparing for the robotics competition. Unlike others, where students use Legos to build their robots, the B.E.S.T competition requires students build a complex machine from scratch.
Sophomore Austin Reed, 15, has been the main programmer for this particular robot. He said he didn’t know much about programming when he started, but has learned along the way.
“It’s been a lot of trial and error,” he said. “Designing the robot was hard, too.”
Much of the design work was done by fellow sophomore Geoff Lawrence. Lawrence has worked with robots in the past and even has a robot kit at home. But he said building a robot for competition was much more challenging.
“We have had to manufacture all of our parts – wheels and all,” he said. “But I have learned a lot.”
And learn a lot, they do. Ivins said the class is about building robots, but students are using many other academic skills.
“They get to apply what they are learning in engineering,” she said. “They also use math and do tons of writing – against their will, of course, but I think it’s important.”
A huge part of today’s competition will be the presentation of the team’s engineering notebook, which outlines their procedure and process for building and testing their robot. They must also come up with a marketing plan and website.
To pay for the competitions, Ivins and Nance are holding monthly robotics workshops for non-academy fourth- through ninth-grade students in the community. The four-week workshop costs a $100 and the November session is already full.
The ASK robotics students will compete in three more robotics competitions throughout the year and travel to Hawaii this summer for a robotics workshop.
Ivins told her students she would give herself a purple Mohawk hairdo if they win, but for the students, the fun factor of the class is motivation enough.
“I love this class,” Reed said. “We are not constrained to seats watching PowerPoint presentations. We get to do fun stuff all the time.”
The city’s first charter school opened in the fall of 2010 with a promise to focus on math, science technology and engineering by using hands-on experience and project-based lesson plans. The robotics program at the school is one of the ways they are trying to achieve that goal, and this year they have an award-winning teacher to help them do it.
Today, Ashley Ivins’ robotics students will take part in their first competition of the year, heading down to Las Cruces for the B.E.S.T. (Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology) robotics competition. It’s the first of four the group will compete in this year. The team is made up of students enrolled in the robotics class, who are also enrolled in the accompanying after-school club.
The Society for Science & the Public named Ivins a Science Fellow in 2010. The organization has been giving the award for three years and chooses only 10 science teachers from around the country each year. That makes Ivins one of only 30 recipients in the United States. Coworker Ray Nance received the award in 2009. As winners, they received training and attended society workshops.
Ivins said students have spent the past six weeks preparing for the robotics competition. Unlike others, where students use Legos to build their robots, the B.E.S.T competition requires students build a complex machine from scratch.
Sophomore Austin Reed, 15, has been the main programmer for this particular robot. He said he didn’t know much about programming when he started, but has learned along the way.
“It’s been a lot of trial and error,” he said. “Designing the robot was hard, too.”
Much of the design work was done by fellow sophomore Geoff Lawrence. Lawrence has worked with robots in the past and even has a robot kit at home. But he said building a robot for competition was much more challenging.
“We have had to manufacture all of our parts – wheels and all,” he said. “But I have learned a lot.”
And learn a lot, they do. Ivins said the class is about building robots, but students are using many other academic skills.
“They get to apply what they are learning in engineering,” she said. “They also use math and do tons of writing – against their will, of course, but I think it’s important.”
A huge part of today’s competition will be the presentation of the team’s engineering notebook, which outlines their procedure and process for building and testing their robot. They must also come up with a marketing plan and website.
To pay for the competitions, Ivins and Nance are holding monthly robotics workshops for non-academy fourth- through ninth-grade students in the community. The four-week workshop costs a $100 and the November session is already full.
The ASK robotics students will compete in three more robotics competitions throughout the year and travel to Hawaii this summer for a robotics workshop.
Ivins told her students she would give herself a purple Mohawk hairdo if they win, but for the students, the fun factor of the class is motivation enough.
“I love this class,” Reed said. “We are not constrained to seats watching PowerPoint presentations. We get to do fun stuff all the time.”
Monday, October 10, 2011
ASK robotics team ready to compete
Posted: Sunday, October 9, 2011 12:00 am | Updated: 4:45 pm, Fri Oct 7, 2011.
BY GLEN ROSALES
Observer staff writer | 0 comments
With a wooden platform, some improvised wheels and a tangled web of wires, the contraption at the ASK Academy hardly looks like the stereotypical robot.
But, explains junior Blayne Beglue - who is in charge of the academy's strategy for the upcoming BEST 2011 competition that will be held in Las Cruces Oct. 22 - the current version is just a prototype used to determine what's needed for the final version.
BEST stands for Boosting Engineering, Science & Technology.
"It's still evolving," he said of the work. "We're still putting things together to see how it all will work."
This is the first time the ASK Academy team has entered the BEST competition, but the group is no stranger to robotics competitions.
Because of the nature of the competition, however, the ASK Academy team needed to form a pseudo company to deal with some of the logistics involved, said sophomore Samantha Kellogg-Howell.
That included creating a website askandroids.weebly.com, as well as a marketing plan.
Under the competition rules, the teams are vying for a government contract to track down genetically engineered bugs that had escaped their containment fields.
The enhanced flies, cockroaches and termites pose a threat to the community, and if the escape is not contained quickly, it could doom the research project, according to the competition prospectus.
To help preserve the research, the bugs need to be captured alive, segregated in separate containment fields and then fed to keep them healthy and content.
What's more, all of this needs to be done in three minutes, with a spotter helping a remote-control operator steer the robot on its mission.
The containment fields are progressively more difficult to reach, with the final one littered with mounds of construction debris.
That might require the addition of an extendable arm that can reach over the debris field to drop the bugs into the containment area, Beglue said.
The class has to design the motherboard and install the power strip to make the operation possible, said sophomore Austin Reed.
It's all "pretty challenging," said Reed, who plans to study engineering when he reaches college.
"I took a class in robotics and it was really fun, so when I saw this, I decided to join," he said.
Not everybody on the team was quite so enthused about it, said freshman Natalie Paulk.
"My dad made me join," she said. "But I'm enjoying it now. It looks good on a college application."
Sophomore Valeria Valencia succumbed to peer pressure in joining the group.
"I was advised by my peers to get involved," she said. "They kept insisting that I join, so I did. We're pretty much a family here. We have our differences but in the end, we all come through."
Ashley Ivins, who teaches robotics and biomedical science at the school, is the team's sponsor and said it's a positive experience for the school to be involved in the competitions.
"They have to work together to do all of this," she said. "It makes them use a lot of different things that they learn here."
In addition to showing their mettle in the competition on the field, the teams must also wow judges with their marketing and business plans.
"It's definitely a fun project," Kellogg-Howell said. "This is something that helps us get ready for everything after college."
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BY GLEN ROSALES
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With a wooden platform, some improvised wheels and a tangled web of wires, the contraption at the ASK Academy hardly looks like the stereotypical robot.
But, explains junior Blayne Beglue - who is in charge of the academy's strategy for the upcoming BEST 2011 competition that will be held in Las Cruces Oct. 22 - the current version is just a prototype used to determine what's needed for the final version.
BEST stands for Boosting Engineering, Science & Technology.
"It's still evolving," he said of the work. "We're still putting things together to see how it all will work."
This is the first time the ASK Academy team has entered the BEST competition, but the group is no stranger to robotics competitions.
Because of the nature of the competition, however, the ASK Academy team needed to form a pseudo company to deal with some of the logistics involved, said sophomore Samantha Kellogg-Howell.
That included creating a website askandroids.weebly.com, as well as a marketing plan.
Under the competition rules, the teams are vying for a government contract to track down genetically engineered bugs that had escaped their containment fields.
The enhanced flies, cockroaches and termites pose a threat to the community, and if the escape is not contained quickly, it could doom the research project, according to the competition prospectus.
To help preserve the research, the bugs need to be captured alive, segregated in separate containment fields and then fed to keep them healthy and content.
What's more, all of this needs to be done in three minutes, with a spotter helping a remote-control operator steer the robot on its mission.
The containment fields are progressively more difficult to reach, with the final one littered with mounds of construction debris.
That might require the addition of an extendable arm that can reach over the debris field to drop the bugs into the containment area, Beglue said.
The class has to design the motherboard and install the power strip to make the operation possible, said sophomore Austin Reed.
It's all "pretty challenging," said Reed, who plans to study engineering when he reaches college.
"I took a class in robotics and it was really fun, so when I saw this, I decided to join," he said.
Not everybody on the team was quite so enthused about it, said freshman Natalie Paulk.
"My dad made me join," she said. "But I'm enjoying it now. It looks good on a college application."
Sophomore Valeria Valencia succumbed to peer pressure in joining the group.
"I was advised by my peers to get involved," she said. "They kept insisting that I join, so I did. We're pretty much a family here. We have our differences but in the end, we all come through."
Ashley Ivins, who teaches robotics and biomedical science at the school, is the team's sponsor and said it's a positive experience for the school to be involved in the competitions.
"They have to work together to do all of this," she said. "It makes them use a lot of different things that they learn here."
In addition to showing their mettle in the competition on the field, the teams must also wow judges with their marketing and business plans.
"It's definitely a fun project," Kellogg-Howell said. "This is something that helps us get ready for everything after college."
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
APS Fellowship programs
Education
Forty-six Science Teacher Fellows From Across the Nation Participate in APS Fellowship Programs
This spring 46 teachers from across the nation are participating in the 2011 Frontiers in Physiology Professional Development Fellowship Programs sponsored by the APS (http://www.frontiersinphys.org). Seventeen teachers were selected as the 2011 Research Teacher (RT) Fellows and 29 teachers were awarded as the 2011 Online Teacher Fellows (OTFs). Frontiers in Physiology was recognized as a “Model for Excellence in Science Education” by the Center for Excellence in Education in 2010, and is sponsored by the APS, a Science Education Partnership Award from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
One component of the traditional Research Teacher fellowship that the APS has offered over the last two decades is a local partnership between the science teacher and an APS member, who jointly applied to the program and committed to contributing a portion of the teacher’s fellowship payments. APS members serve as hosts and mentors to the teachers by providing each teacher fellow with a physiology-based laboratory research experience for seven to eight weeks this summer. Through this opportunity, the RTs learn first-hand how the research process works, allowing them to enhance their own science teaching with their students in the classroom. The RTs will also be attending the “APS Science Teaching Forum,” an intensive workshop week focused on student-centered teaching methods at the Airlie Center in Warrenton, VA. Along with an invited APS member physiologist, the 2011 K-12 Outreach Fellows, past teacher fellows who serve as teacher mentor/instructors, and APS Education Office staff, the RTs will use APS curriculum units that explore inquiry-based teaching strategies, how to integrate technology into their classroom, and equity and diversity issues in science education. As part of the fellowship in the fall, the RTs will develop and refine their own inquiry-based, student-centered lab activity for the science classroom. Finally, the RTs conclude their fellowship year by experiencing a scientific meeting at Experimental Biology 2012 in San Diego, CA.
The Online Teacher Fellow program was made possible with a supplemental grant awarded to the APS last fall as part of the existing SEPA teacher professional development program. The award allows the APS to replicate the pilot Frontiers Online Teacher Program established 2010. The online program delivered on a course management system is an adaption of the more traditional comprehensive RT program, which includes not only the online program, but a summer research experience, a summer workshop week, and travel to EB 2012 for participation and an awards ceremony.
The lessons, assignments, discussions, and activities in both fellowship programs are structured in the APS Six Star Science framework for promoting excellence in science education. The Six Star Science principles address student-centered learning, equity and diversity, technology in the classroom, authentic assessment on content and pedagogy, updated content, and intentional reflection. As part of the both fellowship programs, the RTs and OTFs will develop and refine their own inquiry-based, student-centered lab activity for the science classroom.
The following are the 2011 APS Online Teacher Fellows, listed alphabetically by the teacher’s last name:
Katie Anderson, Dakota Middle School, Rapid City, SD; Myra Arnone, Redmond High School, Redmond, WA; Daniel Bartsch, Billings Senior High, Billings, MT; Sarah Berlinger, Littleton High School, Littleton, MA; Rebecca Block, Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences, Tulsa, OK; Wanda Bryant, Detroit Public Schools, Detroit, MI; Regina Cowan, Detroit Public Schools, Detroit, MI; Greg Dierson, Great Plains Lutheran High School, Watertown, SD; Mary Eldredge-Sandbo, Des Lacs-Burlington High School, Des Lacs, ND; Myriaha Felker, Cabell Midland High, Ona, WV; Charles Galarza, Nolan Richardson Middle School, El Paso, TX; Ellen Gant, Dakota Valley High School, North Souix City, SD; Denise Gipson, Jefferson High School, Shenandoah Junction, WV; Jennifer Gonzales, Tafolla Middle School, San Antonio, TX; Mary Haus, Los Osos High School, Rancho Cucamonga, CA; Kelly Hennessey, A.C. Davis High School, Yakima, WA; Cora James, Haskell High School, Haskell, OK; Cathy Johnson, Drayton Public School, Drayton, ND; Nancy Keller, Heritage High School, Vancouver, WA; Tami Kepshire, Portage High School, Portage, IN; Carla McFadden, Okanogan School District, Okanogan, WA; Jannette Moehlman, Dakota Middle School, Rapid City, SD; Melanie Shaver, West McDowell Jr. High, Marion, NC; Tara Veazey, Riverside High School, Charleston, WV; Darrell Walker, Elizabeth City Middle School, Elizabeth City, NC; Pete Whipple, Bowdish Middle School, Spokane Valley, WA; William Wilson, Clover Park High School, Lakewood, WA; Debora Wines, Central Catholic High School, Billings, MT; and Daniel Zielaski, Phelps ACE SHS, DC Public Schools, Washington, DC.
The following are the 2011 APS Research Teacher/Host Partnerships, listed alphabetically by the teacher’s last name:
Sandra Bickerstaff, South Carolina State Univ., Orangeburg, SC; Sweitzer M. Sarah, and L. Britt Wilson, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; Laura Carlino, Upper St. Clair High School, Upper St. Clair, PA; Bill Yates, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Elizabeth Charleston, York Country Day School, York, PA; Leonard S. Jefferson, Penn State Univ., Hershey, PA; Nelia Delos Reyes, Hartman Middle School, Houston, TX; Rolando E. Rumbaut, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Laura (L.B.) Fogt, Olathe North High School, Overland Park, KS; Shrikant Anant, Kansas Univ., Kansas City, KS; Elizabeth Hunt Esco, Olathe High School, Olathe, KS; Norberto C. Gonzalez, Kansas Univ., Kansas City, KS; Ashley Ivins, Mescalero Apache High School, Mescalero, NM; Nancy Kanagy, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Julia Lawrence, DeSoto Independent School District, Glenn Heights, TX; Tony G. Babb, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas/UT Southwestern Medical Center; Fredrica Nash, Hillside New Tech High School, Durham, NC; Amy M. Pastva, and Jo Rae Wright, Duke Univ., Durham, NC; Jane Raabis, North High School, Worcester, MA; Stephen Doxsey, Univ. of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA; Devalyn Rogers, Pershing Middle School, Houston, TX; Patrick M. Dougherty, Univ. of Texas, Houston, TX; Pauline Schork, Clinton High School, Clinton, WI; Kathryn M.S. Johnson, Beloit College, Beloit, WI; Stacy Schurtz, Pike Township School District, Indianapolis, IN; C. Subah Packer, Indiana Univ., Indianapolis, IN; Sue Speirs, Grosse Pointe Public Schools, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI; Patrick Joseph Mueller, Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI; Christopher Stotts, Lincoln Memorial Univ., Harrogate, TN; Stan C. Kunigelis, DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine, Harrogate, TN; Lucina Velasquez-Lopez, Flowing Wells High School, Tucson, AZ; Thomas L. Pannabecker, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and Leslie Worton, Edison High School, Fresno, CA; Henry A. Lester, California Inst. of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
Forty-six Science Teacher Fellows From Across the Nation Participate in APS Fellowship Programs
This spring 46 teachers from across the nation are participating in the 2011 Frontiers in Physiology Professional Development Fellowship Programs sponsored by the APS (http://www.frontiersinphys.org). Seventeen teachers were selected as the 2011 Research Teacher (RT) Fellows and 29 teachers were awarded as the 2011 Online Teacher Fellows (OTFs). Frontiers in Physiology was recognized as a “Model for Excellence in Science Education” by the Center for Excellence in Education in 2010, and is sponsored by the APS, a Science Education Partnership Award from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
One component of the traditional Research Teacher fellowship that the APS has offered over the last two decades is a local partnership between the science teacher and an APS member, who jointly applied to the program and committed to contributing a portion of the teacher’s fellowship payments. APS members serve as hosts and mentors to the teachers by providing each teacher fellow with a physiology-based laboratory research experience for seven to eight weeks this summer. Through this opportunity, the RTs learn first-hand how the research process works, allowing them to enhance their own science teaching with their students in the classroom. The RTs will also be attending the “APS Science Teaching Forum,” an intensive workshop week focused on student-centered teaching methods at the Airlie Center in Warrenton, VA. Along with an invited APS member physiologist, the 2011 K-12 Outreach Fellows, past teacher fellows who serve as teacher mentor/instructors, and APS Education Office staff, the RTs will use APS curriculum units that explore inquiry-based teaching strategies, how to integrate technology into their classroom, and equity and diversity issues in science education. As part of the fellowship in the fall, the RTs will develop and refine their own inquiry-based, student-centered lab activity for the science classroom. Finally, the RTs conclude their fellowship year by experiencing a scientific meeting at Experimental Biology 2012 in San Diego, CA.
The Online Teacher Fellow program was made possible with a supplemental grant awarded to the APS last fall as part of the existing SEPA teacher professional development program. The award allows the APS to replicate the pilot Frontiers Online Teacher Program established 2010. The online program delivered on a course management system is an adaption of the more traditional comprehensive RT program, which includes not only the online program, but a summer research experience, a summer workshop week, and travel to EB 2012 for participation and an awards ceremony.
The lessons, assignments, discussions, and activities in both fellowship programs are structured in the APS Six Star Science framework for promoting excellence in science education. The Six Star Science principles address student-centered learning, equity and diversity, technology in the classroom, authentic assessment on content and pedagogy, updated content, and intentional reflection. As part of the both fellowship programs, the RTs and OTFs will develop and refine their own inquiry-based, student-centered lab activity for the science classroom.
The following are the 2011 APS Online Teacher Fellows, listed alphabetically by the teacher’s last name:
Katie Anderson, Dakota Middle School, Rapid City, SD; Myra Arnone, Redmond High School, Redmond, WA; Daniel Bartsch, Billings Senior High, Billings, MT; Sarah Berlinger, Littleton High School, Littleton, MA; Rebecca Block, Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences, Tulsa, OK; Wanda Bryant, Detroit Public Schools, Detroit, MI; Regina Cowan, Detroit Public Schools, Detroit, MI; Greg Dierson, Great Plains Lutheran High School, Watertown, SD; Mary Eldredge-Sandbo, Des Lacs-Burlington High School, Des Lacs, ND; Myriaha Felker, Cabell Midland High, Ona, WV; Charles Galarza, Nolan Richardson Middle School, El Paso, TX; Ellen Gant, Dakota Valley High School, North Souix City, SD; Denise Gipson, Jefferson High School, Shenandoah Junction, WV; Jennifer Gonzales, Tafolla Middle School, San Antonio, TX; Mary Haus, Los Osos High School, Rancho Cucamonga, CA; Kelly Hennessey, A.C. Davis High School, Yakima, WA; Cora James, Haskell High School, Haskell, OK; Cathy Johnson, Drayton Public School, Drayton, ND; Nancy Keller, Heritage High School, Vancouver, WA; Tami Kepshire, Portage High School, Portage, IN; Carla McFadden, Okanogan School District, Okanogan, WA; Jannette Moehlman, Dakota Middle School, Rapid City, SD; Melanie Shaver, West McDowell Jr. High, Marion, NC; Tara Veazey, Riverside High School, Charleston, WV; Darrell Walker, Elizabeth City Middle School, Elizabeth City, NC; Pete Whipple, Bowdish Middle School, Spokane Valley, WA; William Wilson, Clover Park High School, Lakewood, WA; Debora Wines, Central Catholic High School, Billings, MT; and Daniel Zielaski, Phelps ACE SHS, DC Public Schools, Washington, DC.
The following are the 2011 APS Research Teacher/Host Partnerships, listed alphabetically by the teacher’s last name:
Sandra Bickerstaff, South Carolina State Univ., Orangeburg, SC; Sweitzer M. Sarah, and L. Britt Wilson, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; Laura Carlino, Upper St. Clair High School, Upper St. Clair, PA; Bill Yates, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Elizabeth Charleston, York Country Day School, York, PA; Leonard S. Jefferson, Penn State Univ., Hershey, PA; Nelia Delos Reyes, Hartman Middle School, Houston, TX; Rolando E. Rumbaut, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Laura (L.B.) Fogt, Olathe North High School, Overland Park, KS; Shrikant Anant, Kansas Univ., Kansas City, KS; Elizabeth Hunt Esco, Olathe High School, Olathe, KS; Norberto C. Gonzalez, Kansas Univ., Kansas City, KS; Ashley Ivins, Mescalero Apache High School, Mescalero, NM; Nancy Kanagy, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Julia Lawrence, DeSoto Independent School District, Glenn Heights, TX; Tony G. Babb, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas/UT Southwestern Medical Center; Fredrica Nash, Hillside New Tech High School, Durham, NC; Amy M. Pastva, and Jo Rae Wright, Duke Univ., Durham, NC; Jane Raabis, North High School, Worcester, MA; Stephen Doxsey, Univ. of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA; Devalyn Rogers, Pershing Middle School, Houston, TX; Patrick M. Dougherty, Univ. of Texas, Houston, TX; Pauline Schork, Clinton High School, Clinton, WI; Kathryn M.S. Johnson, Beloit College, Beloit, WI; Stacy Schurtz, Pike Township School District, Indianapolis, IN; C. Subah Packer, Indiana Univ., Indianapolis, IN; Sue Speirs, Grosse Pointe Public Schools, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI; Patrick Joseph Mueller, Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI; Christopher Stotts, Lincoln Memorial Univ., Harrogate, TN; Stan C. Kunigelis, DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine, Harrogate, TN; Lucina Velasquez-Lopez, Flowing Wells High School, Tucson, AZ; Thomas L. Pannabecker, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and Leslie Worton, Edison High School, Fresno, CA; Henry A. Lester, California Inst. of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
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