One of Socrates' newest fellows has had his lab's research featured on the front page of UCSD's website. Chris Kopp's research sheds light on plant responses to climate change in high alpine communities.
Socrates participated in two booths this year at the San Diego Science and Engineering Fair. Eight fellows ran and coordinated student volunteers for the Science of Sports booth. One fellow helped run a station and designed materials for the Can You Conquer Cancer Booth.
Fellow Zephen Specht (2010-11) and teacher partner Duke Raley (Eastlake High School) were featured in an article about the American Chemical Society (ACS) Science Coaches program. Zephen, along with fellows Emily Satkiewicz, Kristina Mitchell, and Carmen Velez, received funding for an after-school club that introduces scientists into the classroom.
This year's San Diego Science Festival had two booths with Socrates Fellows! The booth planned and run by fellows was themed San Diego's Next Top Science Model. Fellows also helped with the Can You Conquer Cancer? booth put on by Celgene and run by San Diego High, with help from the Eastlake science club students.
For 2011, two Socrates Fellows alumni were inducted into the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, which recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate.
CyberBridge teachers Dr. Donna Ross of Health Sciences High and Stephanie McCormack of Castle Park High discuss the role of student-produced media when teaching bacterial transformation, one of the ScienceBridge Labs.
Read the article in the National Science Teachers Association journal The Science Teacher.
(Journal article requires NSTA membership)
San Diego Science Festival Receives National Recognition
October 6, 2010
Changing the Equation: San Diego Science Festival Receives National Recognition for Advancing STEM Education
The San Diego Science Festival and Agilent Technologies, a major sponsor of the Festival, were recently recognized for their efforts to increase student interest and achievement in science education by President Obama’s nationwide “Change the Equation (CTEq)” initiative, which seeks to improve science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in the United States.
On July 16, a special group of high school students was the first to test the 2010-2011 Socrates Fellows' newly created classroom activities and hands-on experiments.
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