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P-16 Dinner Hosts Nobel Prize Winner

Dr. Carl Wieman, Nobel Laureate in Physics (2001) and U.S. Professor of the Year (2004), gave the keynote address at this year's P-16 Math and Science Leadership Banquet titled: Constructing Bridges to STEM Education on Friday, May 1st, 2009 at Vista Grande Restaurant. The dinner celebrated the success of two new initiatives: the P-16 Science Leadership Collaborative and the P-16 Math Leadership Collaborative, and brought together educators from across San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties representing K-12, Cuesta College, Cal Poly, UCSB, industry representatives, and business leaders focused on teaching and learning in STEM education. Slide handouts from the keynote address are available as a pdf (Dr. Wieman's PPT Presentation).

STEM Leadership Panel

Dr. James Gentilucci, Dr. George Petersen led the 2nd Annual STEM Education Leadeship Symposium on examining the critical role leaders play in creating and sustaining excellent science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in K-20 schools. The symposium was held in Cal Poly’s business rotunda and included panelist Dr. Susan Elrod and Dr. Shirley Magnusson.

Successful Year of the Learn By Doing Lab (LBDL)

The LBDL is a place where Cal Poly students become instructors and 4th- 8th graders become scientists. Through the LBDL (SCM 302), over 60 Cal Poly students have had the opportunity to test out the teaching career in a safe, supported atmosphere. These Cal Poly students design lesson plans and activities and then teach hands-on, demonstration-filled lessons to visiting 4th – 8th grade students. Since the launch of the Learn By Doing Lab in Spring 2008, nearly two-thousand and five hundred elementary and middle school students have participated! These students arrive to our university campus, put on lab coats and goggles and learn enormous amounts of science content while having fun. Local teachers and students alike thoroughly enjoy every minute of their experience at Cal Poly’s Learn By Doing Lab. The Cal Poly students who instruct the courses are always thankful for their "Learn By Doing" experience they have as teachers in this SCM 302 course.

New STEM Teach Fellows Program for Cal Poly Students Pursuing Teaching Career

This program was developed during the 2008/2009 academic year and was piloted Spring 2009. Cal Poly students who are actively pursuing a teaching career can receive up to $1,000 in financial support as well as become a part of a community of students and faculty dedicated to developing the BEST science and math teachers of California. Students can apply to become a Fellow at the end of each quarter. Details can be found on the STEM Teach Fellows Program webpage: http://cesame.calpoly.edu/programs-stemteach.html

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