Welcome to St. Cloud and the eighth annual, statewide MnSTA Conference on Science Education! Thank you for your attendance; for your active participation in sessions; for your efforts to gather resources and ideas to improve your science curriculum; and for your membership and active involvement in MnSTA! We’re excited to theme this conference around water! Consider just how connected we are to water in Minnesota. We live and work near some of the best water resources in the world! How often do we consider what happens below the surface? The conference planning team has assembled an outstanding program. This conference is designed to allow you to focus on a strand of sessions and speakers or explore other science disciplines and grade-level teaching. Whatever your professional development goals, the MnSTA Conference on Science Education provides you with a wide variety of opportunities to enhance your professional growth as a science educator. In addition to formal programming, we hope you will network with colleagues, MnSTA board members and presenters to build meaningful professional relationships. Be sure to take advantage of time during meals and between sessions to socialize and visit our great exhibitors. We hope this year’s MnSTA Conference on Science Education will leave you enthused, rejuvenated and filled with new ideas and resources for teaching your students! Have a great MnSTA Conference! Plan ahead to attend our next MnSTA Conference on Science Education, November 9-10, 2019, in St. Cloud.
Josh Tharaldson Eric Koser MnSTA President MnCOSE Manager
Mary Haberman MnCOSE Coordinator
