VT STEM K-12 Outreach Initiative
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
1:30 - 3:00, Room C, Graduate Life Center

Meeting Notes

• In Attendance 17
• Mike Rosenzweig, Jim Carlson, Llyn Sharp, Nick Furman, Kathleen Jamison, Ed McPherson,  Tamon Younos, Patricia Gaugreau, John Wenrich, Shelly Jobst, Ann Brown, Mitzl Vernon, Daphne Rainey, Tom Wilson, Sue Magliaro, John Wells, & Mark Sanders
• Welcome 1:42 Start Time
• Dr. Mike Rosenzweig intro
• What is VT STEM K-12 Outreach Initiative
• Strategic Plan
• VT STEM Mission
• Gather Information
• Re-origination of VT STEM website
• Think of new leadership role of VT STEM
• Publications
• Focus on VT STEM as scholarly work
• Dr. John Dooley’s Focus
• Best practices
• Focuses on how people are trained in education
• How are teachers screened
• Report from attendees on what they did this over the summer.
• Dr. Rosenzweig – VT K-12 STEM Outreach
• Participated in the Seed Program
• This program focuses on informal education
• Jean Brickey - Staff Senator
• Job is to get staff involved in programs & provide administrative support.
• Staff is going to be asked to be involved in Community Service.
• Stephanie Huckestein - Hahn Horticulture Garden 
• Working on developing horticulture programs on campus & taking the Garden to the community.
• Three day workshop presentation on the watershed given by Llyn Sharp
• Works with project FAST
• A project to get 6th grade girls involved in STEM
• Offering workshops in STEM for educators
• Adopted VT K-12 STEM as the signature program.
• Tom Wilson - Upward Bound
• Brought 75 students to campus this summer for academics
• Took 10-20 students to visit surrounding colleges in Virginia
• Offer assistance to students in scholarship writing
• Patty Gaudreau – MCPS Science Coordinator
• Public School contact for MCPS public schools
• Tamim Younos - Water Resources Research Center
• Works on the watershed and the duck pond
• Works on science teacher training for water shed curricula.
• Has student working on the impact of the golf course on the duck pond.
• John Wenrich - Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
• Sending information to website on future conference for working with gifted students
• Bill Duggins - Engineering Education
• First Lego League has moved from VT to James Madison University 
• Over 1200 students are involved in First Lego League.
•  Currently working on expansion of the 4-H robotics programs
• Faith Stamps - Institute for Advanced Learning & Research
• Currently working on MSP Grants
• Laura Buchanan -Institute for Advanced Learning & Research
• Involved with the summer camp at Virginia Museum of Natural History.
• Mark Sanders – STEM Education
• Introduced the Integrated STEM Education Program at VT
• Offered handout for courses offered.
• Is starting to offer classes on line in STEM Education
• Currently has a high school working on a Integrated STEM High school
• John Wells – STEM Education
• Currently working on Auburn High School Research in intergrading curriculum
• Stated that George Yakman is starting to implement STEM at Pulaski Middle school 
• Shelly Jobst – Outreach Program Development
• Primary responsibility to provide support for undergrads
• Working on research to identify STEM programs in Virginia.
• Ann Brown
• Has offered a number of contractual programs for Virginia Dept of Ed
• Mittsy Vernon - Phoebes Field
• Working on mobile unit to take the Phoebes school to the public
• One objective to bring girls into science.
• Daphna Rainey - Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI)
• Involved with Galileo Program
• Working on expending program to reach students that may not have access to the resources others may have.
• Also working on Bioinformatics workshops.
• Ed McPherson - VT Stars Program
• Announced a program that is supported by Exxon Mobile
• Kathleen Jamison - 4-H Youth Dev. Curriculum & Learning
• Identified program as moving from informal to formal education
• Nick Furman - 4-H Youth Dev. Curriculum & Learning
• AKA - Ranger Nick
•  Looked at using live animals in teaching.
• Lea Hamblin - Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI)
• Penny McCallum - Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center
• Angela ??? – CPE
• Jim Carlson – STEM Education
• Worked with the CEED Imagination program this summer
• Llyn Sharp – VT STEM K-12 Outreach
• Why do we Have VT STEM
• Mission to keep all STEM Programs together.
• VT STEM meetings continue here at the GLC:
• October 9,  2007
• November 13, 2007
• Attendees, continuing and new (be sure to sign in, esp. email addresses)
• brief updates, announcements
• VT STEM Strategic Plan and programs:
• VT STEM K-12 Outreach Initiative Report 
• Mark Sanders proposed NPR Broadcast of VT STEM outreach Programs. 
• Mike Smith suggested to Clean up Template
• Dr. Sue Magliaro
• Follow up Question to ‘What have you done for me lately ?’
• Are they really learning
• Do these programs really start to get children to get into STEM Careers?
• Is there a Longitudinal Study for VT STEM to track student course after they go thought VT STEM Programs? 
• OutreachNOW
• September 24th
• Jeri Childers is chairing event
• VT STEM Exhibitor
• Seeking Handouts
• ad hoc  Exhibit Review Group
• Awards
•    VAST -Virginia Association of Science Teachers 
• November 8-10
• November 7, 2007 VSELA
• Williamsburg VA