STEM educators take part in an intense five day electric guitar design/build project.  Each faculty member will build his/her own custom electric guitar and will engage in student centered learning activities that relate the guitar design to specific math, science and engineering topics.  Participants leave this weeklong experience with their custom-made guitars, curriculum modules with short term assessments that can be immediately integrated into the faculty team school curriculum.

Designed for the CNC machining teacher with an operational understanding of a Haas 2 axis Slant Bed lathe, this class will include both theory and hands on lab time. The theory portion of the class will include rotational axis, types of live tooling holders, programming changes, program editing, and long hand live tooling programming.

The lab portion of the class will include safety, live tooling holder set-up, C axis set-up, Y axis set-up, setting offsets manually and with a tool setter, dry run techniques and machine operation. During the 4-day course participants will have the opportunity to program, set-up and run three live tooling lathe projects.

Protein is Cash (PiC) workshops are annual professional development workshops for high school teachers. PiC introduces the concepts of biotechnoloy and biomanufacturing and provides hands-on training for teachers to learn the necessary laboratory skills. Over the course of a week, teachers hear lectures from workshops leaders and guest speakers from indsutry about topics in biomanufacturing. The topics covered in the lectures are put into practice in a series of laboratory experiments. Teachers also have the opportunity to tour a local biomanufacturing facility and learn about strategies to incorporate the lectures and laboratory activities into the high school curriculum.

Build a line-following car, build a laser light show projector, build a laser target game and more!

This camp is for future designers and programmers interested in creating interesting projects using the Arduino controller. The Arduino is a C-Programmable controller capable of creating thousands of interesting projects. In this camp we will look at how light and light sensors can be used to create many fun and interesting devices.

 During the "Robotics and Photonics with Arduino" summer camp 2016, students will be immersed in  the integrated and interactive discovery of engineering, technology, engineering and math.
Student will:

Discover:  Arduino programming language, download code from PC to Arduino, build electronic circuits, read schematics and more! 

Design, build, & take home: color mixing with Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), and an Arduino Starter Kit with a prototyping circuit board. 

Employ:  electronic components, prototyping circuit board, and variety of input and output devices.

Want to investigate a possible career that is making a difference and is “changing” lives?  If so, a career in the medical device industry might be a perfect fit for you.  The Medical Device Assembly and Inspection Camp will give students a glimpse of some entry-level careers in the medical device industry. Students will learn how to use a microscope to build, and inspect, a medical device part.  Students will be trained on proper gowning procedures and how to enter, and exit, a clean room.

This camp is a great opportunity for students to discover fulfilling jobs, with great pay, that have educational pathways to advance their careers in the medical device industry.

In Barcode Long Island, funded by the National Institutes of Health, student research teams use DNA barcoding to explore the unique biodiversity and ecology of Long Island.

First, science teachers attend summer training at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Stony Brook University, or Brookhaven National Lab. Then, trained teachers assemble student research teams in grades 9 to 12 and submit an original research proposal using our proposal submission guideline. Teams with accepted proposals will receive supplies, equipment, and scientific support needed to conduct experiments. Program data will contribute to a distributed effort to generate a "big picture" of Long Island's many ecosystems and diverse living things. Results will be shared at an annual symposium.

Participants will be introduced to sample collection and DNA barcoding wet-lab and bioinformatics infrastructure. Each workshop is 9:30 am to 3:30 pm and lunch will be provided. Teachers who complete this workshop are invited to organize student teams and propose projects. Accepted projects will be presented at the 2017 spring symposium.

MNT is an opportunity to build and foster the micro- and nano- technology communities across the country. It is a venue to share ideas and to learn from others who work to train technicians, a place to stay on the forefront of the industry and workforce needs.

MNT is a collaboration of the six Micro- and Nano- technology Regional Centers funded through the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education program. The 6th Annual MNT Conference is proudly hosted by the Northeast Advanced Technological Education Center (NEATEC). This year, it is our pleasure to provide regional centers with the opportunity to network and share ideas on ways to strengthen and augment workforce development programs through education partnerships with industry for tomorrow's workforce.

The workshop will have a lot of fun projects, from 2D laser cutting & engraving to 3D printing to watching drones fly. You can also learn more about Manufacturing Engineering, and if this is the field for you from an expert.

This workshop is two and half days and has hands-on teacher training in aquaponics.

Dr. Barthelemy was a Fulbright Scholar in Finland and a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan and Seattle Pacific University. He has conducted qualitative and quantitative research on the experiences of women, people of color, and LGBT persons in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. His work has included a nationwide set of interviews looking at career pathways and harassment of graduate women in physics and astronomy, as well as an international survey assessing the experiences of LGBT physicists. His work has identified the many barriers that underrepresented groups face in STEM, with an emphasis on peer-to-peer harassment. Dr. Barthelemy has taught classes in the United States and Finland on race and gender in science, intercultural education, and physics. He has taken a unique academic approach to teaching STEM students the humanities through an investigation of their own fields.

This is one session in the five-session online course "Introduction to Open Source Collection / Intelligence." The course will be taught by Anastacia Webster, an adjunct instructor at California State University, San Bernardino.

Need more content for your introductory cybersecurity or ethical hacking course? Step 1 of hacking is reconnaissance. In this course, you’ll learn how information is gathered online with automated tools, as well as how to analyze information with the tools and techniques intelligence agents use. After taking this course, you will be able to develop curriculum that integrates open source collection and analysis.

CyberWatch West is excited to be a sponsor of the inaugural California Cyber Innovation Challenge (CCIC) on Wednesday, June 29, on the campus of Sacramento City College, a CyberWatch West member institution.

Teams of students from eight California high schools will participate in the one-day demonstration event, which has been organized by the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) together with the CyberCalifornia network, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, and the California Workforce Development Board.

The student teams will complete a series of timed cybersecurity challenges, defend the integrity of computer networks, and crack complex codes. The competition will have elements modeled on CyberPatriot, the Air Force Association’s National Youth Cyber Education Program, and built on Facebook’s recently open-sourced capture-the-flag (CTF) hosting platform.

Seeking to gain hands-on policy experience and apply your STEM training to address societal challenges? Are you a health/medical professional wondering if an S&T Policy Fellowship is right for you? Policy fellows with a background in health/medical sciences have much to contribute and gain from the fellowship experience. Collaborate and brainstorm with high ranking policy leaders. And do it in the company of 200+ talented global scientists and engineers.

This is one session of the five-session online course "Introduction to the NICE Framework and NICE Challenges." The instructor will be Dr. Vincent Nestler, Instructional Designer, author of The Principles of Computer Security Lab Manual published by McGraw Hill, and assistant director of the Cybersecurity Center at California State University, San Bernardino.

The course will discuss the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Workforce Framework and help faculty understand how to integrate the framework into their curriculum. It will also walk through deployment of the NICE Challenges, realistic scenarios that can be used as part of a class, as a lab, or as homework assignments.

In this symposium, we will focus on causes and consequences of obesity, and discuss policy approaches to address this epidemic. Obesity is a major health concern, not only in the United States and other industrial nations, but also in the developing world. Over 78 million US adults are obese – a staggering 35% of the adult population. Obesity-related morbidities include stroke, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer; and contribute to an estimated annual medical cost of over $145 billion in the US alone. Despite recognition of obesity as a worldwide epidemic, no country has achieved significant decreases in obesity prevalence in the past three decades. Importantly, emerging data reveal complex biological mechanisms underlying this disease, dispelling the stigmatizing notion that lack of self-control is the sole determinant of body weight. Recently identified neurological and socioeconomic associations require deeper understanding in order to design and implement effective policies for reducing obesity and comorbid disease burden. The objective of this symposium is to connect researchers, policy experts and health professionals, with the goal of exploring evidence-based approaches to address the obesity epidemic. 

Microsystems use several types of thin films (e.g., oxides, nitrides, metals) to fabricate micro-sized devices.  Some films, such as nitrides, are used as structural layers while others, such as metals, are used as conductors.  Thin films are deposited or grown on a surface using numerous deposition techniques.  Each film has its own characteristics and properties.  This topic explores some of these characteristics and properties as well as the processes used to deposit these films.

SCME's "Science of Thin Films Kit" uses a rainbow wafer to introduce the characteristics of silicon dioxide (oxide) and to provide an actual oxide wafer from which you can extract data to determine oxide thickness and etch rates.  You can also use this wafer to study light interference with different layers of oxide. A rainbow wafer is an oxide layered silicon wafer that has been etched using a manual process, resulting in several different thicknesses of oxide.  In the picture, each color is a different thickness of silicon dioxide.

The activities in Science of Thin Films include interpreting logarithmic graphs, calculating etch rates, and estimating the line of best fit for an etch rate curve.  You are also asked to estimate the oxide thicknesses of the rainbow wafer by the color seen when light goes through the transparent thin film at a specific angle.

The concepts introduced and explored in this topic can be applied to chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, and micro and nanotechnologies.

Interested in teaching solar principles in effective, engaging ways in your classroom? Join us in Madison, Wisconsin for the second annual STEM Educator Solar Institute. At the academy, you’ll install and commission a residential size solar photovoltaic array. In addition, you’ll perform (and take with you) hands-on classroom lab activities that will enable you to bring solar energy to life in your classroom.

The goal of the workshop is to enhance geospatial education by integrating major issues of environmental change into the GIS curricula. This 3-day workshop will introduce GIS faculty and instructors from U.S. universities and colleges to fundamental concepts of atmospheric and related sciences. Participants will learn about state-of-the-art research in weather, climate, and societal applications. The workshop will include lectures, small group discussions, and GIS exercises. Participants will gain necessary knowledge and will have all workshop materials to teach these concepts to their GIS students.

The workshop will have a lot of fun projects, from 2D laser cutting & engraving to 3D printing to watching drones fly. You can also learn more about Manufacturing Engineering, and if this is the field for you from an expert.

This hands-on training workshop will cover LEGO® EV3 Microprocessor, functional robots building instructions, programming with the EV3 software, programming with EV3 sensors and logic.

This workshop introduces participants to the SeaMATE PufferFish ROV. Participants learn the fundamentals of basic ROV building and experience a variety of hands-on science, technology, and engineering design activities that can be integrated into a class or after school activity to reinforce foundational knowledge and skills. Upon completion of the workshop, all participants should feel confident to lead ROV building activities using the PufferFish ROV Kit or comparable parts and components.

The SMART Center's Maritime Transportation Institute (SMTI) is a professional development model created to engage frontline secondary and college-level STEM and CTE educators, guidance counselors, career coaches, and community college faculty.

RCNET is celebrating Manufacturing Day on October 7, 2016

RCNET partners will be touring local sites on 10/7 to learn about manufacturing processes and opportunities.

Contact RCNET if you would like to request sponsorship for your Manufacturing Event!

STEM educators take part in an intense five day electric guitar design/build project.  Each faculty member will build his/her own custom electric guitar and will engage in student centered learning activities that relate the guitar design to specific math, science and engineering topics.  Participants leave this weeklong experience with their custom-made guitars, curriculum modules with short term assessments that can be immediately integrated into the faculty team school curriculum.

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Attend an eight-day summer program in biotechnology designed for high school teachers seeking new knowledge and instructional ideas. Receive a $750.00 stipend, a hardcopy and flash-drive version of the summer workshop's laboratory exercises, and access to lab supplies and kits that will enrich your home school lab/classroom activities.

Biotechnologists work in fields that fight disease, create new drugs, improve food production and clean up the environment. In the summer institutes teachers will learn real-world applications of biotechnology that will interest their students and shape future career choices. Representatives from industry will also provide the latest information on cutting edge research trends, job availability and current salaries in the field.

Kingsborough is located on a 72-acre campus in Manhattan Beach on the southern tip of Brooklyn. The college serves about 30,000 students each year, offering a wide range of courses in the liberal arts and sciences, not to mention a private beach where workshop participants can relax, read, and swim.  

Designed for the CNC machining teacher with an operational understanding of a Haas 3-axis CNC mill as well as a working knowledge of 4th axis CNC milling, this class will include both theory and hands on lab time. The theory portion of the class will include rotational axis, types of 5-axis CNC mills, 5-axis set-up considerations, programming changes, program editing, and 3+2 long hand programming.

The lab portion of this class will include safety, 5-axis trunnion set-up, setting work offsets both manually and with a probe and tool setter, 5-axis work holding, tool clearance considerations, dry run techniques, and 5-axis machine operation. During the five-day course participants will have the opportunity to program, setup and run a total of four (4) 5-axis projects.

Applications are now being accepted for the annual Engineering Technology Challenge Teachers’ Dissemination Program on July 11, 2016 through July 15, 2016 at Tunxis Community College in Farmington, CT. This is a greatprofessional development opportunity for community college faculty and high school teachers to engage in problem based learning exercises while learning how to successfully integrate professional skills into curriculum. Professional and technical skills include teambuilding, understanding behavioral diversity, 3D printing, computer-aided drafting (CAD), and microcontrollers. The Connecticut College of Technology's Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing, a National Science Foundation Center or Excellence, is a proud sponsor of this workshop!

Working Connections training workshops offer several tracks that cover a range of the most in-demand topics in IT. The goal of Working Connections is to provide attendees with the expertise needed to teach their respective track in a subsequent semester, bringing the most current information to their classrooms either as a stand-alone course or as supplemental information to an existing course.