STEM in 21st CCLC 2012 Showcase Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics in 21st Century Community Learning Centers
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“When students excel in math and science, they help America compete for the jobs and industries of the future.�
- President Barack Obama
Through its STEM in 21st CCLC
The STEM Showcase, along with a
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CCLCs nationwide to better meet the
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interested in implementing quality STEM components.
Presentation Title:
All Students Become Gifted in STEM
Presenters:
Jim Hartman and Erica Beasley
Organizations:
Pendergast ED/Amberlea Elementary School and Arizona Science Center
Grade Level: 4–5
Presentation Title:
Indian Reservation STEM in Rural Arizona
Presenters:
Jennifer Otting and Anderson Yazzie Jr.
Organization:
San Carlos USD, Rice Elementary
Grade Level: 6–8
CALIFORNIA Amberlea Elementary students (97 percent of whom are Hispanic) love science, but they can’t get enough during the day! They find STEM-specific afterschool clubs and summer camps especially engaging. Students love activities such as “Lemonade Chemistry” and “Capturing Energy From the Arizona Sun.” At Amberlea,
“Everyone who comes to STEM becomes a gifted student.” A partnership between the Arizona Department of Education and the Arizona Science Center supports this STEM program, from the initial teacher training in inquiry-based/project-based practices to day staff cross-training.
Indian Reservation students in Arizona love science! They find STEMspecific afterschool clubs and summer camps especially engaging when aspects of their culture are woven into the learning. Outdoor desert activities that consider the environment are favorites. One example of cultural consideration: cacti are dissected, not
animals, bones, or scat. Of course, with just a little imagination, these characteristics are transferrable to any setting, any culture. A partnership between the Arizona Department of Education and the Arizona Science Center supports this STEM program, from the initial teacher training in inquiry-based/project-based practices to day staff cross-training.
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Presentation Title:
LAUSD Cyber Careers: A Hands-On Teaching Tool for the 21st Century Learner
Presenters:
Brad Lupien, Harry Talbot, Stu Semigran, Ben Fernandez, Jaishri Mehta, and Alvaro Cortes
Organizations:
arc and the Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) Beyond the Bell Branch
Meet and talk with a team of high school afterschool providers and LAUSD administrators to learn how to replicate a robust, year-long, hands-on series of events and competitions specifically designed to teach high school students about careers in computer science, college course
work, and how to navigate firewalls and networked systems. Partners in this LAUSD program include the Air Force Association, Southwest College, Cal Poly Pomona, Raytheon, Northrup Grumman, and the Honda Foundation.
Grade Level: 9 – 12
“Everyone who comes to STEM becomes a gifted student.”
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Presentation Title:
Scientists for Tomorrow — Collaboration Between University and Afterschool Programs
Presenter:
Marcelo Caplan
Organization:
Science Institute in the Department of Science and Mathematics, Columbia College Chicago
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Illinois The Scientists for Tomorrow program is a collaboration between higher academic institutions (Columbia College Chicago), community centers and organizations (Enlace Chicago), and informal science education providers (museums). The program is funded for 2 years by the National Science Foundation, with the objective to
incorporate STEM-oriented academic enrichment in community-center based afterschool programs in Chicago (Enlace Chicago: Rosario Castellanos Middle School and Francisco I. Madero Middle School). In total, Scientists for Tomorrow is running in 14 community centers; many of them are affiliated with the 21st CCLCs.
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Presentation Title:
Underwater Robotics: Discover the Possibilities
Presenters:
Felix Bahena, Jorge Ruiz, and LaTina Taylor
Organization:
Chicago Public Schools, Eli Whitney Technology Magnet Cluster School
Grade Level: 6–8
Presentation Title:
A Unique STEM Collaboration: Tap In Leadership Academy and the University of Illinois Champaign
Presenters:
Sally K. Carter and Shameem Rakha
Organization:
Tap In Leadership Academy
Grade Level: 6 – 12
Through a partnership with Chicago’s John G. Shedd Aquarium, Chicago public school teachers were provided with ongoing immersive professional development focused on STEM principles and robotics. At this exhibit you will learn how middle school students at Chicago
Public School’s Eli Whitney Technology Magnet Cluster School made STEM connections and underwater discoveries with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). Students built their own ROV, conducted field research with it, and observed how STEM inspired their inquiry.
Tap In Leadership Academy has worked to create purposeful collaborative partnerships with the University of Illinois. Through these partnerships young scholars now learn a multiplicity of STEM skills. At this exhibit you will learn how to make the connections needed to create and maintain similar partnerships. Tap In Leadership
Academy’s executive director and founder, Sally K. Carter, along with graduate student and Ph.D. candidate Shameem Rakha, will discuss successes and difficulties of their partnership-building process. In addition, you will have an opportunity to role-play situations that organizations may experience while trying to build collaborations with large institutions.
Through these partnerships young scholars now learn a multiplicity of STEM skills.
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Presentation Title:
Martin Education Village STEM Program
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Organization:
Martin Education Village
Grade Level: K–8
Presentation Title:
STEM After School, Through the Summer, and Beyond…
Presenter:
Karrie Hamilton
Organization:
North Adams Community Schools
Grade Level: 5–8
The Martin Education Village (MEV) is a collaboration led by Martin University, the Edna Martin Christian Center, and Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church. Partnering local education agencies include the Indianapolis Public School District and The Project School, a charter school in Indianapolis. The partnership was created in January 2010
with three primary student goals: (1) improved student behavior, (2) increased academic performance, and (3) increased family involvement. MEV seeks to achieve these goals through strengthened supplemental academic supports for K–8 students in Martindale-Brightwood and surrounding communities.
Opportunities for engagement in STEM are often lacking for underrepresented populations. This exhibit will address innovative ways for creating partnerships that support and engage these students in STEM learning, both after school and during the summer. Participants will see examples of after school STEM clubs, including NASA
Club, Mad Scientist Club, Science Central Club, and Rocketry Club, as well as summer NASA Camp. In addition to involvement from NASA, Wisdom Tools contributed a space-themed video game to this North Adams Community Schools afterschool program.
Presentation Title:
Making Natural Connections: Exploring Science Through Visual Art
Presenters:
Jenny James and Roscoe Reddix, Jr.
Organization:
Young Audiences of Louisiana (YALA)
Grade Levels: 1–6
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Presentation Title:
Robotics – Really Outrageous But Otherwise Technological Ingenious Curriculum Strategies
Presenters:
Sal Miletello IV, Pierre Rubben, and Rhonda Rubben
Organization:
Fully Devoted Developer of Children (FDDOC) Winners Circle, Inc.
Grade Level: 4–8
Natural Connections is a highly participatory, hands-on exhibit designed for teaching artists, curriculum writers, and teachers who are interested in finding new ways to engage students in science learning. YALA’s partners in this effort include Hands On New Orleans, Trouser House, the Preservation Resource Center, and the Louisiana Comprehensive
Curriculum. Participants will discuss the natural connections between art and science, learning how to integrate their own work into local science curricula. This exhibit includes a visual arts-integrated science project as well as a section on brainstorming and writing lesson plans.
Robotics in afterschool classes have provided excitement for students, parents, teachers, and schools in the FDDOC Winners Circle programs, which are conducted in partnership with Sci-Port Discovery Center. In this class, the children utilize all their critical thinking and problemsolving skills to program
robots. Students develop computer programming skills to perform such tasks as rotations and angles for turns. STEM applications, as well as higher-level thinking and problem-solving skills, are involved to accomplish each mission of the robot.
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Presentation Title:
Middle School Motor Heads, Engineers, and Aviation Experts in Afterschool
Presenter: Organization:
21st CCLC, Nebraska City Middle School
Grade Level: 6–8
Presentation Title:
Undercover With CIA STEM
Presenters:
Lorna Eliason and DeeDee Grant
Organization:
21st CCLC, Chadron Public Schools
Grade Level: 3–8
interest in the clubs and their success. Come visit with the program’s project director and learn about the NASA BLAST Club, the Engineering Club, and the Motor Head Club—just a few of the Nebraska City Middle School’s exciting STEM-focused clubs offered in their afterschool program.
Chadron Public Schools has had an ongoing focus on STEM education in both the elementary and middle school programs. The project director, along with the activities coordinator for the elementary program (who is also an elementary classroom teacher), will share some of the strategies, successes, and lessons learned as they
built an interest in STEM fields among their students and formed partnerships with the community. The presenters will also talk about their community “Star Parties,” where they join with members of their local astronomy club to experience the excitement of the stars and the night sky.
Presentation Title:
“No One Who Works Here Looks Like Me”: Motivation via Student Mentors
Presenters:
Rosemarie Aviles and Brian Talledo
Organization:
Paterson YMCA
Many urban students complain that STEM programming is run by people who don’t look, sound, or act like them. Come see how developing student mentors from within the community has increased student engagement and motivation
in out-of-school-time STEM programming in Paterson, New Jersey. Participants will receive recruitment and training materials, as well as curricula developed by this YMCA program.
Grade Level: 4–8
Presentation Title:
STEM and the Arts: “The SmArts Project”: The production of intelligent, competent, STEM-minded citizens who will teach others to be, to know, and to do likewise through the medium of the Arts and beyond. Thinking SmArter, not harder!
Presenters:
Jenee M. Farley and James Greatorex
Organization:
Hope Cares After School Program: An activity of Hope Academy Charter School
Grade Level: 4–8
The SmArts Project takes a unique approach to STEM by emphasizing the arts and ways in which technology can be used as a means of exploring creativity. The project seeks to enable students to achieve a deeper understanding and appreciation of STEM through the medium of the arts. This exhibit will focus on designing and implementing
“SmArt” STEM programming that will engage students and foster partnerships between parents, school-day staff, and the community. Lean about how the SmArts Project works with local partners such as the Arts Coalition of Asbury Park, Supplemental Educational Electronics, and local community organizations and businesses.
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Partnerships are a key factor of the STEM content in the afterschool clubs at Nebraska City Middle school. The program focuses on being active in the community and getting members of the community involved in the afterschool clubs in order for partners (e.g., local auto businesses, a local extension office, and parents) to have a vested
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Presenters:
Kristie Maher, Jill Cotton, Deanne Jensen, Brittany Postma, Kristy Messner, and Stacy Booth
Organization:
South Dakota 21st CCLC
out a component of the science kit loan program at the heart of the partnership, and visit with site coordinators to learn how they have used this opportunity to bring more STEM opportunities to their students.
E4 Youth — Engagement, Education, Employment & Entrepreneurship for Youth
Presenter:
Carl Settles
Organization:
Austin Independent School District (ISD)
Grade Level:
Grade Level: K–8
Presentation Title:
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CH3 STEM activities encourage students to stretch their horizons.
Presentation Title:
Ft. Worth STEM Explosion!
Presenter:
Miguel Garcia
Organization:
Ft. Worth Independent School District
Grade Level: K – 12
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Austin ISD’s E4 Youth — Engagement, Education, Employment, and Entrepreneurship for Youth — is a scalable model that addresses key educational pipeline issues. Through a combination of teacher training and incentives, embedded professional mentors, tours, and an online social network, E4 Youth helps students bring learning into context. Visit
this exhibit to learn how students explore careers, build professionally reviewed portfolios, and seek meaningful employment opportunities solving real problems in the community. Austin ISD’s partners for the E4 Youth program include the University of Texas at Austin Intellectual Entrepreneurship Consortium.
Experience for yourself the STEM explosion that is occurring in Ft. Worth, TX. Test your skills with your avatar in the Elven Fire Game. Become a geocaching expert. Let robots teach you motor skills. Learn how to get along with aquaponics. Embrace your inner tree-hugger environmental self. Learn how to build a life-size boat from cardboard. You don’t want to miss this fun,
hands-on opportunity to experience STEM activities that encourage students to stretch their horizons. Ft. Worth ISD has developed partnerships with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Ft. Worth’s Community Services Planning Department, and multiple community-based organizations and local businesses.
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The South Dakota 21st CCLC program has been effective in installing daily STEM opportunities at a great number of sites in the state through a partnership with the South Dakota Discovery Center. Visit this exhibit to view the structure that supports an entire rural state’s 21st CCLC sites, try
Science Center and 21st CCLC Partnership
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Presentation Title:
STEM to STEAM: Integrating the Arts, Impacting Academics, & Changing Lives
Presenter:
Tameka Thomas
Organization:
Manor Independent School District
Grade Level: K – 12
Presentation Title:
Students Taking Real Action With STEM
Presenter:
JoAnn Barcak
Organization:
Taylor Independent School District
Grade Level: K – 12
texas If you know anything about theater, you know that it is not just about the show you see. The amount of science, engineering, and math that goes into the backgrounds is enormous. Learn how to move from STEM to STEAM and integrate not only science, technology, engineering and math into your after school program or summer camp, but add in the arts to help make it stick! In this program, students work together for 6
This Taylor Independent School District project, in partnership with Girlstart, gives girls the opportunity to master the scientific method and learn STEM skills through intense, informal enrichment activities. Attend this exhibit to engage in discussion and hands-on learning opportunities pertaining to building
fast-paced, fun-filled weeks to put on their very own production of “School House Rocks.” Visit this exhibit to learn how the behind-thescenes work leads up to the dress rehearsal and final curtain. STEM to STEAM allows you to embed STEM into your program in ways that excite students and leave them craving more.
strong partnerships in rural communities to implement specific STEM activities for girls. In addition, the exhibit will also focus on best practices for STEM activities that girls can use to gain confidence in developing their career path options.
Presentation Title:
Using Afterschool to Promote STEM
Presenter: Eli Crow
Organization:
University of Texas at Tyler Ingenuity Center
Grade Level: K – 12
Afterschool is a setting to help students who lack confidence in STEM find success both in the classroom and out, and the Ingenuity Center has used the afterschool setting to engage students in STEM education who would not otherwise have taken advantage of these opportunities. This 21st CCLC
project is a partnership of the University of Texas at Tyler Ingenuity Center, the Tyler Independent School District, and the Fruitvale Independent School District. At this exhibit, strategies for recruiting and engaging students will be discussed, as will ideas for innovative STEM activities.
Afterschool is a setting to help students who lack confidence in STEM find success both in the classroom and out.
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STEM Showcase Floorplan
STEM Showcase Booths 1 Arizona All Students Become Gifted in STEM
8 Indiana STEM After School, Through the Summer, and Beyond…
2 Arizona Indian Reservation STEM in Rural Arizona
9 Louisiana Making Natural Connections: Exploring Science Through Visual Art
3 California LAUSD Cyber Careers: A Hands-On Teaching Tool for the 21st Century Learner 4 Illinois Scientists for Tomorrow— Collaboration Between University and Afterschool Programs 5 Illinois Underwater Robotics: Discover the Possibilities 6 Illinois A Unique STEM Collaboration: Tap In Leadership Academy and the University of Illinois Champaign 7 Indiana Martin Education Village STEM Program
10 Louisiana Robotics—Really Outrageous But Otherwise Technological Ingenious Curriculum Strategies 11 Nebraska Middle School Motor Heads, Engineers, and Aviation Experts in Afterschool 12 Nebraska Undercover With CIA STEM 13 New Jersey “No One Who Works Here Looks Like Me”: Motivation via Student Mentors 14 New Jersey STEM and the Arts: “The SmArts Project”: The production of intelligent, competent, STEM-minded
citizens who will teach others to be, to know, and to do likewise through the medium of the ARTS and beyond. Thinking SmArter, not harder! 15 South Dakota Science Center & 21CCLC Partnership 16 Texas E4 Youth—Engagement, Education, Employment & Entrepreneurship for Youth 17 Texas STEM to STEAM: Integrating the Arts, Impacting Academics, & Changing Lives 18 Texas Students Taking Real Action With STEM 19 Texas Using Afterschool to Promote STEM 20 Texas Ft. Worth STEM Explosion!
2013 STEM Showcase! Do you know of a 21st CCLC program that motivates students to take an interest in STEM? Would you like to nominate that program to be showcased next year? In the coming months, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) will be seeking nominations for the 2013 STEM Showcase. Be on the lookout for details about the nomination process on the Y4Y website (http://y4y.ed.gov). The Department looks forward to learning about your quality STEM program!
2012 STEM Showcase
U.S. Department of Education STEM in 21st CCLC Initiative 2012 21st CCLC Summer Institute