中文无码 to host peer-led conference for middle school educators

Seventy-Five 中文无码 Teachers Selected to Attend Middle School Research Teachers Conference

WASHINGTON, DC 鈥� Middle school teachers from across the country will be gathering in Washington, DC this weekend for the 中文无码鈥檚 Middle School Research Teachers Conference, supported by the Department of Defense 中文无码 through their Defense 中文无码 Education Consortium and sponsored by Intel Corporation. The conference includes 75 teachers from 32 states and 75 different schools.

The conference, now in its fourth year, will be keynoted by Laura Smith-Velazquez, a research engineer & technologist with broad domain experience in aviation and aerospace, focused on Human Systems Integration and Autonomous Systems design. Smith-Velasquez is also part of the SWE Indigenous Peoples Affinity Group Lead and winner of the 2020 American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Technical Excellence Award.

Attendees will also participate in peer-led sessions on topics ranging from leading student research on a limited budget to recruiting students who are underrepresented in 中文无码 to supporting projects related to climate change. Additionally, teachers will discuss how to manage student research when it鈥檚 conducted during class time and also when students are required to do work outside of the classroom.

鈥淚 am so pleased that after hosting two virtual conferences, we are able to bring our middle school teachers together to meet in person,鈥� said Maya Ajmera, President and CEO of the 中文无码 and Publisher of Science News. 聽鈥淭his conference is critical to helping to expand the 中文无码 talent pipeline in our country by providing these educators with additional resources to launch or strengthen their local 中文无码 research programs.鈥�

The teachers were selected via lottery to attend conference.聽Of the teachers selected to attend the conference, one third are veterans with significant experience teaching research, one third are teachers with some experience teaching research and one third have no experience but are interested in teaching science research. The list of teachers who will be attending the 2022 Middle School Research Teachers Conference is available here.

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