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Northwest Regional Advisory Board Members
A special thank you to the STEM Advisory Board
of NW Iowa
Teresa Alesch, Emmetsburg
John Bedward, Storm Lake
Kathleen Bottaro, Sioux City
Benjamin Bouza,
Hawarden
Derek Brower, Orange City
Beth Bunkers, Primghar
Eric Forseth,
Sioux Center
Linda Gray, Everly
Ginny Gunderson, Spirit Lake
Kiana Johnson, Primghar
Nancy McDowell, Sheldon
Jordan Menning, Sioux Center
Teresa Putnam, Sanborn
Brenda Welsh, Sioux City
Mark Zabawa, Spencer
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Your Community -
Your Events
Learning happens inside and outside of the classroom.
Learning can happen to anyone at any age.
so
learning can happen anywhere, anytime, for anyone.
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STEM is the foundation for innovative problem-solving and discovery through exploratory learning. It is important for teachers, students, parents, businesses and communities to connect and have awareness, and access to world-class STEM education opportunities. In Northwest Iowa, we are committed to growing STEM education and opportunities.
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NW STEM Teacher Externs learn at
Iowa Lakeside Laboratory
This year two teachers from Northwest Iowa had the opportunity to work at Iowa Lakeside Laboratory in Milford as part of the Iowa Teacher Externship Program. The goal of the Iowa STEM Teacher Externship program is to connect class to career. Marc Benedict and Art Hellert spent six weeks this summer working with the CLAMPS program, the Cooperative Lakes Area Monitoring Project, a volunteer lake monitoring program started in 1999 as a collaborative venture by Iowa Lakeside Laboratory and the Friends of Lakeside Laboratory group. Volunteers collect water samples throughout the summer on nine lakes in Dickinson County. The goals of CLAMP are to provide long-term monitoring data on algae conditions in area lakes and to educate local citizens about lake ecology.
Marc Benedict is a high school science teacher at Graettinger-Terril CSD who plans to take the knowledge gained and data collected back to his students, to expose them to real-world program solving in their communities. A local farmer wants to test water quality on his farm so students will collect water samples, analyze the samples and make predictions.
Art Hellert is a middle school science teacher at Spirit Lake Middle School. Art plans to take the data and research he gathered from water samples collected from area lakes from the 1970's through the present, and have his students analyse trends in water quality over time.
For more information on the Externship program, check out Iowa STEM Teacher Externships.
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Iowa STEM Professional
Development-Palooza held in
Waukee
In 2016, the Iowa Governor's STEM Council solicited proposals from professional developers across the state who could help support educators trending toward STEM. As a result of this action, K-12 educators and administrators from around the state gathered for the Iowa STEM Professional Development (PD)-Palooza held at the Waukee Innovative Learning Center from July 17 - 21. Twenty-three participants were informed of best practices in professional development opportunities in STEM while gaining cutting-edge knowledge from these experts.
During one of the sessions, Kris Kilbarta, State Science Supervisor for the Iowa Department of Education, provided information on the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) as well as the Iowa Science Standards. Kris spoke about the three dimensions of science learning within the NGS Standards: the science and engineering practice, crosscutting concepts and disciplinary core ideas. Additional information on science standards (NGSS and Iowa Core) can be found through the links listed below. Each site offers grade-level specific information.
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STEM Scale-Up Award Professional
Development Begins
Thousands of Iowa educators are gearing up to bring STEM education to their students this fall. The 2017-18 Scale-Up programmers have fanned out across the state to quip and train in-school and out-of-school teachers in the latest and greatest STEM learning platforms. Seventy-eight different workshops across Iowa's six STEM regions spanning the next four months will prepare nearly 2000 new members of Iowa's STEM community to spark the imaginations of youth. In the NW STEM Region, over 260 educators will be able to share their expanded STEM knowledge with youth in 80 area organizations.
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Check out NW STEM Website!
Northwest STEM Calendar
- Stay up-to-date on all Northwest STEM
regional opportunities and even a few state-wide. Use this calendar to share your STEM events with others.
Don't forget to connect with NW STEM on social media as well!
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