Name of
Presenter(s): Fran Rudoff, Executive Director, KIDS
Consortium
Topic of
Presentation: School/Community Partnerships: How do we make
STEM engaging, relevant, and connected to real problems in Maine
and our communities? How do we move schools from traditional to
project-based curriculum?
Name of
Presenter(s): Doug Bishop, Tripp Middle School and Tim
Vrabel, Efficiency Maine
Topic of
Presentation: Teaching personal energy production in the
schools: energy efficiency and STEM
Name of
Presenter(s): Tara Treichel, Coastal Studies for Girls
Topic of
Presentation:
Girls and STEM + Girls with Disabilities and STEM Maine Girls
Collaborative Project: Resources for teachers/groups to work
with girls.
Name of
Presenter(s): Tom Keller
Topic of
Presentation:
Framework for K-12 Science Education and NGSS (Next Generation
Science Standards): What gives?
Name of
Presenter(s): Dr. Ron Brown, IEEE and Pete Mickleson,
engineer
Topic of
Presentation: Engineering resources. Now available FREE
online resources in engineering: Newsletters, lesson plans,
monitors, speakers, and more. AND “Tell me about engineering”
Name of
Presenter(s): Lori Safford, Hampden Academy biology teacher
Topic of
Presentation: What if you are the only teacher in your
school doing STEM? How to collaborate within a school community.
Name of
Presenter(s): Mary Ellen Tracy
Topic of
Presentation: STEM in the Middle: How do we do more to
excite students about STEM at the middle level?
Name of
Presenter(s): Sara Taddeo, Abby Pearson, and Alan Kurtz
Topic of
Presentation:
Outreach to challenged populations (LD, socioecomic): Center for
Community Inclusion & Disability (University of Maine)
Name of
Presenter(s): Jerry Pieh and Jan Mokros
Topic of
Presentation: The Reach Center: Supporting promising
students in STEM
Name of
Presenter(s): Susan McKay/Mike Whitman
Topic of
Presentation: Building partnerships across districts:
Experiences and more from the Maine Physical Sciences
Partnership
Name of
Presenter(s): Susan McKay/Mike Whitman
Topic of
Presentation: Building collaborative communities of
practice: Experiences and examples from the Maine Physical
Sciences Partnership
Topic of
Presentation: What can research institutions do to help
schools integrate their research into a school’s existing
curriculum?
Topic of
Presentation:
Increasing access to wind energy education in schools, and in
installing wind turbines at schools, i.e., “Wind for Schools”
Name of
Presenter(s): Elizabeth Ehrenfeld
Topic of
Presentation:
SMCC Cellular Biology Opportunities for High School students
Name of
Presenter(s): Sheila Pendse
Topic of
Presentation: How can Higher Education benefit K-12
education?
Name of
Presenter(s): Tom Bickford
Topic of
Presentation: Using robotics to teach and inspire
elementary, middle and high school students in STEM areas.
Name of
Presenter(s): Mary Whitten, Gus Goodwin, Paul Wlodkowski
(Maine Maritime Academy), Yelena Meadows (Maine Maritime
Academy), Beth Fisher (Mid-west School of Technology)
Topic of
Presentation: Connections between STEM, Science Frameworks,
regular classroom, engineering classroom, and tech ed
classroom. AND alignment of mathematics to career and tech ed.
Name of
Presenter(s): Ron Cantor, SMCC President and Jean Moon
Topic of
Presentation:
Presenting their current project on STEM, Sustainability, &
Science Policy --- Connecting secondary and post-secondary
education
Name of
Presenter(s): Sally Loughlin, MSAD #51
Topic of
Presentation:
MSAD #51 – Ideas for starting change
Name of
Presenter(s): Andrew Schoenberg, Southern Maine Community
College
Topic of
Presentation: Bring real world STEM speakers/BIX into the
classroom (meet and network); Try to figure out how to marry
industry and academia: two different sides of the brain.
Name of
Presenter(s): Bill Belcher, Texas Instruments
Topic of
Presentation: Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs): What role
do RCTs play in testing and identifying effective STEM teaching
approaches?
Name of
Presenter(s): Phil Griswold, UMaine Farmington and Bob Knech
Topic of
Presentation: The college science and math curriculum for
elementary teachers is modest at best. What kind of post-BS/BA
education would contribute to more content knowledge and
understanding? Teacher prep: Where should we be going?
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Name of
Presenter(s): Share Templeton and Laurette Darling
Topic of
Presentation:
Connections to Support Stem Learning at K-6
Name of
Presenter(s): Emily Higgins Boothbay Region High School
Topic of
Presentation:
How do we encourage students to continue on with computer
science?
Name of
Presenter(s): John Newlan, Eddie Miles, Jim Moulton
Topic
of Presentation:
STEM and digital citizenship: What critical connections need to
be made between STEM and Digital citizenship? Let’s Blog:
connecting teachers within an online community
Name of
Presenter(s): John Marshall (WBIT)
Topic of
Presentation:
“MEST Up”: Creating the nation’s first STEM game show for high
school students right here in Maine on WPXT-TV.
Name of
Presenter(s): Luke Shorty. Maine School Science and Math
Topic of
Presentation:
Creative Calendars: How to restructure the school calendar to
help facilitate partnerships with businesses, schools, and
organizations.
Name of
Presenter(s): Ryder Scott and Drew Dumsch
Topic of
Presentation: The Maine Environmental Literacy Plan:
Ecology, Sustainability, and Systems Thinking. An update and
high-level ideas.
Name of
Presenter(s): Whitney King
Topic of
Presentation: Lake Bio Geo Chemistry: integrating public
data into ecology, chemistry, physics, and engineering
curricula.
Name of
Presenter(s): Henry Inguerson and Sally Plourde
Topic of
Presentation:
STEM Education in primary/elementary grades when math and ELA
are supported but not STEM. Ideas: Teaching elementary teachers
to teach science/inquiry.
Name of
Presenter(s): Tom Tracy
Topic of
Presentation:
Elements of a comprehensive plan to improve math education K-12
in Maine
