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WASHINGTON STEM BLOG  |  West Sound STEM Network’s STEM Café Series Connects Educators and Community Members
“This program is helping me be creative, be adaptable, and think outside the box. I get to meet engineers solving real world problems and bring those stories back to my high school students to show how biology is applied in the real world.” --Rebecca Arthur, Biology Teacher, Central Kitsap High School
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NASA 2018 STEM Educator Summits

​Expanding NASA Opportunities
for Native American and Alaska Natives

June 25-29 in Ellensburg, WA, this 2018 STEM Educator Summit brings together formal and informal educators who work with Native American and Alaskan Native students, offering them exposure to new culturally relevant, hands-on NASA STEM activities.  Click here for details and registration information.

Expanding NASA Opportunities for Underserved Communities Summit ​

July 10-14 ​ in Seattle, this 2018 STEM Educator Summit  brings together formal and informal educators who work with under-served communities, including students of color, offering them exposure to new culturally relevant, hands-on NASA STEM activities.  Click here for details and registration information.  

2018 NESSP Summer Camp Training

NESSP is recruiting teachers, paraeducators,and informal educators from afterschool programs to create new opportunities for students underrepresented in STEM, by running local summer camps. Each camp will be facilitated by a team consisting of a formal educator with teaching experience at the respective grade level and a paraeducator or informal educator with some experience in STEM or who is connected to a local community. Summer camps will be oriented to NASA missions around the following areas: 1) environmental sciences and remote sensing 2) robotics and surface exploration, and 3) rockets and exploration of the solar system.  Training for the Environmental Science and Remote Sensing camp theme occurs May 5-6 in Seattle, WA.  Click here for application details, and the NESSP web site to apply.
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We Are College Bound

Kitsap Strong is hosting a We Are College Bound  event on Saturday, April 21, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm at Olympic College, HSS Building,  Bremerton.  The event will be a sort of mini-conference with breakout sessions on education topics and resilience building for both students and parents in Kitsap County (middle through high school ages), along with open computer labs with volunteers to help file FAFSA's, WashBoard.org profiles or any other assistance that students need help with. 

From Pinholes to Space Telescopes

From Pinholes to Space Telescopes: How Telescopes Work takes participants through the basics of what optical systems such as cameras, telescopes, and our eyes have in common.  This workshop explores the phenomenon of image formation using simple materials through a scaffolded instructional sequence including pinhole viewers, and lenses.  The workshop culminates in participants building their own telescope, a Galileoscope, and receiving a class set of 24 shipped directly to their school. 
The manufacturer has stopped producing Galileoscopes, so this is possibly the last opportunity to acquire a class set of these marvelous teaching tools!
  • Live Sessions: Thursdays, April 26, May 3, May 10, and Tuesday, May 29, 2018, 4-5:00pm Pacific / 7-8:00pm Eastern
  • Where: live sessions via Zoom, discussion forum on Google Groups
  • Who: Classroom teachers in grades 5-12
  • Registration: $40 (includes a kit of activity materials, and 24 Galileoscopes)

Cybersecurity Camp in Poulsbo

Western Washington University is offering a free Cybersecurity Camp for 25 teachers and 30 middle-school students this summer in Poulsbo. This camp includes a field trip each week to the WWU Sea Discovery Center in Poulsbo where Teachers and students will explore cybersecurity themes and principles in a hands-on marine environment, and get an opportunity to see technology in action including building water weather platforms as part of a community science project.
  • Dates:
    • ​For Teachers: July 16-27, 2018
    • For Students: July 23-27, 2018
  • Location: Olympic College Poulsbo and the SEA Discovery Center in Poulsbo
  • Application Deadline: April 30, 2018, or until all positions are filled.  
  • Notification of Acceptance: Applicants will be notified of acceptance starting April 1st.