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Attention Delaware Educators and Parents!
Included in this issue are downloadable STEM CAREER PROFILES from our partners that highlight STEM career pathways for students. Each career profile shows at-a-glance information about each career and how students can get a head start in their studies during their middle and high school years.
If you have STEM-related career or job positions to share, we are happy to talk to you. Contact Randy Guschl, DFSME Executive Director: 302-547-2256 or guschlrj@gmail.com.
Apply Now! for the Delaware Educator STEM Awards
There is still time to apply, deadline is October 1, 2020.
Register Now! for Virtual STEM and Math Equity Conferences
Please join us for this fall’s Equity Conferences Oct. 9-10.
Introducing New DFSME Board Members
Min Chong, Dr. Kevin Dickerson, and Dr. Daniele Kidd, Ed.D.
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Ashland™
Over the past decade, Ashland™ has transformed from a diversified oil and chemicals company into a global specialty materials company. We are passionate, tenacious solvers who thrive on developing practical, innovative, and elegant solutions to complex problems in applied chemistry, always pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, and advancing the competitiveness of our customers across diverse industries.
Ashland positions include the following STEM career pathways.
Click on the careers below to download profiles containing job outlook, salary range and more.
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Corteva Agriscience™
Corteva Agriscience™ is the only major agriscience company completely dedicated to agriculture. We’ve harnessed agriculture's brightest minds and expertise gained over two centuries of scientific achievement. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of those who produce and those who consume, ensuring progress for generations to come. We are driven by our beliefs and our purpose.
Corteva Agriscience™ positions include the following STEM career pathways.
Click on the careers below to download profiles containing job outlook, salary range and more.
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To learn more about at Corteva Agriscience™, click here.
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EDIS
EDiS provides diverse services including planning, building and operation expertise centered on our customer’s building and property assets. We offer positions including architects, engineers, construction managers, general contractors, trade contractors and facilities managers.
EDiS BIM Services, or “Building Information Modeling” professionals build systems in a 3D virtual space.
For a career profile working with this sophisticated technology using laser-scanners, drones, virtual reality and more, click here:
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ILC Dover
ILC Dover is about flexible, protective solutions. We improve efficiency while safeguarding people, product, and infrastructure in hazardous conditions. Our industries include Bulk Packaging, Personal Safety, Pharm and BioPharm, Flood Protection and Aerospace.
Interested in working with us? ILC Dover positions include the following STEM career pathways.
Click on the careers below to download profiles containing job outlook, salary range and more.
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Spekciton™
Spekciton™ Biosciences LLC is a biotech measurement science and technology company based in Wilmington, Delaware. We strive to ensure safe and sustainable food, medicine and materials while reducing global warming. Our products and services relate to helping our planet by improving the health of plants, water and soils. We help crop growers with growing healthier plants. We increase crop safety and productivity.
Spekciton™ positions include the following STEM career pathways and more.
Click on the careers below to download profiles containing job outlook, salary range and more.
To learn more about Spekciton™ BioSciences LLC, click here.
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Click here for a complete listing and access to all
STEM Career Profiles and other teacher resources.
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Apply Now! Application Deadline is October 1, 2020
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Delaware STEM Educator Awards 2020
All application materials must be received by Oct. 1, 2020.
The Delaware STEM Educator Awards recognize a teacher, or team of teachers at Elementary (K-5), Middle (6-8) and High School (9-12) levels
that demonstrate STEM innovation and excellence through teaching,
academic collaboration, and student engagement.
Winners at each level are eligible for a
cash award up to $7,500 as a thank you
for their commitment to STEM in Delaware
and the success of our students.
For Uncertified Educator (Community Educator) Application, click here.
The Community Award is open to organizations that coordinate and organize STEM activities to youth in grades pre-K through 12 that typically, but not exclusively, takes place outside the school environment.
For questions about completing an application or to contact an Awards coordinator,
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Winners will be honored at the Live Virtual Event!
6th Annual Delaware STEM Educator Awards
For more information about the live virtual event, please click here.
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Conference strands will provide K-12 educators, administrators, higher educators, business leaders, government officials, and non-profit stakeholders with opportunities to grapple with classroom and systems-based challenges, network and problem solve solutions, and share best practices.
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STEM and Math Equity Conferences
Please join us for one or both of this fall’s Equity Conferences:
October 9-10, 2020
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STEM EQUITY CONFERENCE
October 9, 2020
8AM - 2PM
“Rehumanizing the Classroom:
Empowering ALL Students as Thinkers and Doers of STEM.”
Co-hosted by the STEM Council and DFSME
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MATH EQUITY CONFERENCE
October 10, 2020
8AM - 3PM
“Rehumanizing the Mathematics Classroom: Empowering ALL Students as Thinkers and Doers of Mathematics.”
Hosted by the Delaware Mathematics Coalition
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Register for One or Both Zoom Conferences
Attend Both Conferences $40 / One Day Only $25
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Zoom invitation and detailed agenda will be sent prior to the events.
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Please join us in welcoming three
DFSME Board members within the last quarter:
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Min Chong
Sr. Vice President and General Manager
Global Specialty Additives & Intermediates and Solvents
Ashland Global Holdings, Inc.
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Dr. Kevin Dickerson
Superintendent
Milford School District
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Dr. Daniele Kidd, Ed.D.
Chair, Dept. of Applied Agriculture/Collegiate FFA Advisor
Delaware Technical Community College, Owens Campus
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STEM Legacy
STEM Sustainer
STEM Network
STEM Business
Corteva
STEM Friends
EDIS
STEM Gifts in Kind
Beebe Healthcare
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Contact Information:
Delaware Foundation for Science and Math Education
100 W. 10th Street, Suite 612
Wilmington, DE 19801
Tel: 302.397.0034 | Fax: 302.397.0036
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©2020 Delaware Foundation for Science & Math Education
501(c) Education nonprofit dealing with K-16 STEM education in Delaware schools.
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