An excerpt from the 624/14 STEMCONNECTOR, below.  I found the drop in computer science degrees for women both notable and disappointing. I wonder if it is connected to the growth of computer gaming and the large gender disparities associated with that.  I read recently that game developers are trying to attract a more diverse user…

Bailey Elementary’s Science Coordinator Lynn Riggs sent the note below on this term’s ReSET program by Volunteer Kojo Opoku:   We had a great experience with Kojo. He worked very well with me as well as the classroom teacher. He was very dedicated, designing and preparing interesting experiments in electricity for the 4th grade students….

From Education Wee’s June 24, 2014 Issue, Six Characteristics of a Great STEM Lesson by Anne Jolly (former middle school teacher): http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2014/06/17/ctq_jolly_stem.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS2

Mike Fritz, who helped me in the classroom this term, shared his experience with his co-workers at the US Environmental Protection Agency: As I strode to the front of Ms. Molly Moran’s second grade class at Annapolis Elementary School one June morning in downtown Annapolis, I was confident in my lesson plan, so elegantly simple…

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…

  From veteran RESET volunteer Rich Repplier: John, Today I posted RESET ads at these places in Centreville: 2 Giants (3 X 5s) 1 Shoppers (8-1/2 X 11) 1 Starbucks (8-1/2 X 11) The Goddard School (8-1/2 X 11) You can cover lots of places in a short time – you just pick a shopping…