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Newsletter Volume 53 No. 1 A Quarterly Publication of the Minnesota Science Teachers Association Inc.
Ainissa Ramirez to Keynote NSTA Conference on Science Education.
Educators from across the Midwest are gearing up for the NSTA Conference on Science Education scheduled for October 27-29 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. The key-
note speaker is Ainissa Ramirez. She is a scientist, educator and a self-proclaimed science evangelist and is passionate about getting the general public excited about science. She co-authored Newton’s Football: The Science Behind America’s Game and Save Our Science: How to Inspire a New Generation of Scientists. She was professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science at Yale University but now focuses her energies on making science fun as well as co-hosting theScience Underground podcast. The conference will focus on three strands, Teaching Science in a Connected World, STEMify Instruction Through Collaboration Across the Curriculum and Celebrating Elementary Science and Literacy Connections. The featured speaker for the strand, Teaching Science in a Connected World is Lucy Dunne. Her topic will be Wearable Tchnology and the Connected World. Dunne is Associate Professor, Apparel Design
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program and Co-Director, Wearable Teachnology Lab, Dept. of Design, Housing, Apparel, University of Minnesota. She is the co-author of Functional Clothing Design: From Sportswear to Space Suits. The featured speaker for the strand STEMify Instruction Through Collaboration Across the Curriculum is Malanie LaForce. Her topic is Inclusive STEM Schools: Deconstructing and Determining the Success of a Complex Innovation. She is the Associate Director and Lead Researcher, Outlier Research & Evaluation, CEMSE, The University of Chicago. The featured speakers for the strand Celebrating Elementary Science and Literacy Connections are Christine Anne Royce and Steve Rich. Royce is the Department Chairperson and Professor of Teacher Education, Shippensburg University, Sippensburg Pa. Rich is an author and Science Methods instructor at the University of West Georgia, Carrollton. See page 17 for more information.
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