👩‍💻 Statewide STEM Advisory Council Meeting 🧑🏾‍💻

The Governor's STEM Advisory Council spring meeting was held on Tuesday, May 24th, with members attending in person and virtually. The meeting was held at the DMACC Urban Campus in Des Moines.

The afternoon meeting included:

A look into the STEM BEST® program at MFL Mar Mac
STEM Regents Alternative Pathway to Iowa Licensure (RAPIL) Impact presented by scholarship recipient David McMurrin a former engineer and U.S. Air Force veteran
A review of the 2021-22 Annual Assessment Report share by Dr. Erin Heiden (UNI)
Updates from each of the 5 Working Groups: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Implementation; Creativity and Innovation Task Force Implementation; Career Guidance Implementation; Rural Iowa STEM Education; and Computer Science is Elementary
Review of STEM Council input from January meeting
Closing remarks by Student Representative Emily Wilkerson, ISU Chemical Engineering Student

Interested in learning more about the Iowa Governor's STEM Advisory Council Meetings? Visit the Iowa STEM archives at: https://iowastem.org/archive

The BEST STEMposium

Southwest Iowa STEM had awesome representation from our region’s STEM BEST districts at the first BEST STEMposium held at the UNI campus on June 13-14. The STEMposium brought together STEM BEST programs from across the state to network, share ideas, and strengthen partnerships.

☀️Summer Scale Up PD ☀️

Southwest Region Scale Up PD Sessions Schedule

Dates	Program
July 18	Project GUTS
July 18-20	Project Lead the Way
July 18-22	Soapy Cilantro
July 27-29	Ready Set Drone
July 28	Daily Math Fluency
August 1	Tiny Techies
August 2	Waterworks
August 8-9	ILED
August 10	Tiny Techies
August 11	Ioponics
October 15	Waterworks (pt.2)
Virtual-multiple dates	Nepris
Virtual-multiple dates	Storytime STEM Packs
Virtual-multiple dates	Robot Investigations with Finch Robot
Virtual-multiple dates	Computational Thinking with Micro:bit

Note to Awardees

Congratulations on this award! It takes time and effort to apply and integrate hands-on, innovative curriculum, like Scale-Up. We appreciate all you do for your students!

The training dates listed above are subject to changes and additions based on venue and provider availability. If you're an applicant and not sure when or where you should be attending the training session, please contact Joni Ehm at jehm@iowastem.org

The Hub is here to get you connected. In addition, if you have implementation challenges, we're here to support you through those. Finally, we'd love to visit your program in action. When you're ready, please send us a date and time!

📆 Mark your Calendars! 📆

🔬K-12 Teachers Interested in STEM 🔬

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Community STEM: Email us details on your STEM Event so we can help you share it!

Thank you to the Southwest Regional STEM Board for your service and support!

Jane Chaillie
Misty Grey
Denise Hoag
Larry Jonson
Stephanie Lane
Janell Leinen
Deb Sprecker
Terry Thoreten
Kristin Sheffield
Kathy Somers