Announcements
"Save the World Through Science & Engineering” Video Contest - The Kavli Foundation is challenging Grades 6-12 students across the world to brainstorm and share their ideas!
Accept the Biology Challenge: Become part of the USA Biology Olympiad
The USA Biology Olympiad (USABO) is the premiere US biology competition for high school students at http://www.usabo-trc.org.
Annual National STEM Video Game Challenge for Students and K–12 Teachers
is now open for entries and is accepting submissions of original video game concepts and designs from students and educators in four categories – middle school, high school, collegiate, and educator. Deadline: March 12, 2012.
April 27-29, 2012
USA Science and Engineering Festival
The 2nd USA Science & Engineering Festival will inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers with school programs and nationwide contests throughout the 2011/2012 school year and a finale Expo in Washington DC on April 27-29, 2012. JMU is a Titanium Sponsor of the USA Science and Engineering Festival.
Grade 5-12 STEM Education Program Opportunity for School District and School Communities
An 8-week experiment design competition in the community, held Spring 2012, will allow grade 5-12 student teams to design real microgravity experiments vying for their community’s reserved mini-lab slot on ISS.
About the Center
The Center for STEM Education and Outreach is a vehicle to coordinate and connect activities across our campus with partners in K-12 schools and others interested in STEM. Supporting faculty, staff, and students who focus on STEM, the Center sponsors events and activities to bring interested parties together and to feature best practices and innovations developed across the country in STEM Education. We also serve as an organizing point for large-scale projects on campus to help improve STEM education across the educational system.
One goal for the Center is to serve as a point of coordination and connection to the range of resources available at JMU - people, places, and curriculum. This website is the portal through which you can access many of these unique resources.
JMU has a long history with K-12 education. As we start our 2nd Century as an institution, we want to promote a focus on STEM education by offering opportunities for students, teachers and other interested parties to engage with these key areas and ultimately contribute to the national effort to improve STEM education.Mission Statement
The STEM Education and Outreach Center's mission is to foster high-quality science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education for all students in grades K-16. We work with students, teachers, parents, policymakers and the general public by supporting high quality curriculum and professional development and sharing the many resources of JMU faculty, staff, and students with schools across Virginia. We serve as a point of collaboration and connection for faculty and staff on campus and we collaborate with internal and external partners on sponsored projects to improve STEM learning and teaching.
Priorities
- Build and support web portal to JMU STEM Education and Outreach faculty and activities.
- Build communities and collaborations on- and off-campus to support STEM Education and Outreach
- Sponsor events focusing on improving K-16 STEM Education
Working Group
- Dr. Steve Badke
Associate Professor, Geology and Environmental Science
IDLS Area Director, Math, Science and Technology - Dr. Richard Ingram
Coordinator of Technology and Special Projects, College of Education - Ms. Judy Kidd
Assistant Professor, Mathematics - Dr. Cindy Klevickis
Professor, Integrated Science and Technology - Dr. Carla Martin
Assistant Professor, Mathematics - Dr. Mark Mattson
Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy
- Dr. Olga Pierrakos
Assistant Professor, Engineering - Dr. Steve Purcell
Associate Professor, Educational Technology
Head of Middle, Secondary and Mathematics Education - Dr. Michael Renfroe
Professor, Biology - Dr. James Schaeffer
Director, Outreach - Mr. Nick Swayne
Coordinator, External Relations, College of Education
Advisory Group
- Dr. A. Jerry Benson
Vice-Provost for STEM - Dr. David Brakke
Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics - Dr. Linda Halpern
Dean of General Studies - Dr. Sharon Lovell
Dean of the College of Integrated Science and Technology - Dr. Philip Wishon
Dean of the College of Education
