In STEM Courses, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports a Gender Gap in Online class discussions:
RESET thinks it’s important to reach young children with hands-on STEM learning, before girls are affected by gender-based stereotypes.
ReSET volunteer Bob Hauptman shares his thoughts about his pre-K volunteer program at Georgian Forest Elementary in Montgomery County, MD, below. Regarding our brief discussion about my experience with the three and four year olds: I never in my wildest dreams could have anticipated what I am going through. These children are just transitioning from…
From RESET Volunteer Ji Chen: The hands-on experience can bring great promise to students in early science education. As a robot inspector for FIRST regional competition in Philadelphia, I was astonished by the hands-on skills teenage participants demonstrated during the competition. They knew how to use tools and software properly, and how to solve problems on…
Report from RESET Volunteer Beverly Yett: The two things the students seemed to be most excited about were the facial reconstruction and what they called the bird beak experiment. This was a bit of a diversion for me but I wanted to demonstrate both biodiversity and adaptive changes to the environment. The students made “cootie catchers” a simple origami form…
RESET Volunteer Sandra Hernandez invited parents of her students to assist in her classroom experiments for second graders and many did. Although it isn’t always possible to involve parents, RESET volunteers should give it a try by asking our teachers to help us reach out to our students’ parents, Some feedback from Sandra’s parent volunteers: Sandra-…
Look at those smiles! ReSET finds creative ways to make science and math fun! “We’ve got to lift our game up when it comes to technology, and math, and science,” said President Obama in April 2011 at a town hall event held on Facebook’s Palo Alto, Calif. campus. President Obama’s remarks underscored his intention to…
It’s Pay It Forward Time . . . By Charles Cisneros A former aerospace engineer, I worked for 33 years as an Air Force officer and 13 years for SAIC as a system test planner for the National Missile defense program. I retired in 2009. I had done other kinds of volunteer work over the…
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