Outreach in STEM

ORAL

Abstract

This workshop constitutes a brainstorming/networking session on incorporating a variety of sources into science outreach activities designed to produce more physics, or in general, science teachers. The presenters will outline useful resources they used in presenting science to over 30,000 K-12 students while involving student, community, and state support. The use of undergraduate students of any discipline, from both the community college and university level, to promote science, will be considered as a mechanism to adapt non-science and non-education majors into pre-service science teachers. Involving other grant-initiatives, such as Communities in Schools, will be considered as well, along with pitfalls and suggestions. Finally, participants will make a set of goals to accomplish over the next year to initiate the workshop findings into practice.

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Authors

  • Phil DiStefano

    Hamline University, Florida International University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Kentucky, APS, San Diego State University, Green River Community College, California State University, Long Beach, University of Arkansas, Aibilene Christian University, American Chemical Society, Rutgers University, University of Maryland, University of Colorado-Boulder, Western Washington University, University of Arizona, Center for Astronomy Education (CAE), ACS, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Colorado

  • Al Bennett

    Centennial High School, SUNY Stonybrook, Towson University, University of Texas at El Paso, Xavier University, Moorehouse, Pioneer High School, North Carolina State University, California State University, San Marcos, Chicago State University, University of Arkansas, University of Texas at Austin, Middle Tennessee State University, APS, Virginia Tech, California State University, Long Beach, National Science Foundation, Seattle Pacific University, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Florida International University, Rutgers University, New Mexico State University, University of California, Irvine, University of California, Santa Barbara