Quiet of Summer Belies STEM Professional Development Panoply

Children learning ramps and pathways

In the heart of the dog days of summer, thousands of Iowa teachers are gearing up to bring top-drawer STEM education to their students this fall. The 2017-18 Scale-Up programmers have fanned out across the state to equip and train in-school and out-of-school teachers in the latest and greatest STEM learning platforms. Read more about Quiet of Summer Belies STEM Professional Development Panoply

Iowa well-represented at international FIRST® Championship

FIRST Tech Challenge teams compete at FIRST Championship in St. Louis.

The ultimate goal for some 52,000 teams participating in FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) across the globe from 86 countries is navigating the qualifying pathway to reach the FIRST Championship held in St. Louis last month. Read more about Iowa well-represented at international FIRST® Championship

Top programs to STEM-spire at least 86,000 young Iowans come fall

Southwest Regional STEM Advisory Board

April always comes with a fresh start—budding leaves, blooming flowers and for Iowa STEM, a new garden of programs ready to grow across Iowa for youth through the Iowa STEM Scale-Up Program. Read more about Top programs to STEM-spire at least 86,000 young Iowans come fall

Five ways Iowa’s STEM Scale-Up Program works

Drop in to just about any school across Iowa this week and somebody’s bringing a world-class STEM experience to students through the five-year-old STEM Scale-Up Program initiative of the Governor’s STEM Advisory Council. Read more about Five ways Iowa’s STEM Scale-Up Program works

Putting STEM first in the FIRST Robotics Competition

FRC Team in West Delaware County Community School District

You might think it takes an Einstein-like mind to build a robot from scratch—or at least some years studying the craft. Yet, a program offered on the 2016-17 STEM Scale-Up Program menu is making it common for high school students to be the new, young minds behind these innovations. It’s called, “FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC).” Read more about Putting STEM first in the FIRST Robotics Competition

“Making STEM Connections” in and out of classrooms

Making STEM Connections at Milford Memorial Library

STEM learning often takes place beyond school classrooms. Other outstanding venues where kids learn STEM include museums, camping trips with their scout troop, at the zoo or on a 4-H outing and certainly among the book stacks at libraries. Read more about “Making STEM Connections” in and out of classrooms

Hundreds trained at summer professional development through the STEM Scale-Up Program

Waterloo training for Making STEM Connections

About one-sixth of Iowa’s K-12 students are about to experience the best of STEM at the hands of nearly 1,700 educators trained at more than 60 STEM Scale-Up Program professional development workshops this summer and fall. Read more about Hundreds trained at summer professional development through the STEM Scale-Up Program

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STEM Council’s signature STEM Scale-Up Program nets results

Tulips and daffodils are not the only things blooming this spring across Iowa—better test scores and higher interest have blossomed among more than 100,000 young learners who have taken part in one of 14 current STEM projects awarded to educators in and out of school this year through the STEM Scale-Up Program. Read more about STEM Council’s signature STEM Scale-Up Program nets results

Scaling the best of STEM to young Iowans

Sixth-graders at Lewis Central Middle School in Council Bluffs enjoy Engineering is Elementary, one of 11 programs offered to educators and their students on the 2016-17 STEM Scale-Up Program menu.

The launch of the STEM Scale-Up Program is the most significant annual undertaking by the STEM Council’s operations team. This month marks the start of a rollout of the best of STEM to more than 100,000 Iowan students with the support of a couple thousand educators. Read more about Scaling the best of STEM to young Iowans

Computer science gets Scaled-Up by Iowa STEM

Davenport West High School utilizes Project Lead The Way's Computer Science program

With Computer Science Education Week right around the corner, the “T” in STEM is in the spotlight once more through Code.org and the STEM Council’s “Code Iowa” partnership. This year, the new Computer Science and Software Engineering course by Project Lead The Way helps support these IT efforts in Iowa. Read more about Computer science gets Scaled-Up by Iowa STEM

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