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NSF ATE Teacher Leaders Complete Second Year

Thirty-eight math, science, and technology high school and community college educators completed summer externships during the second year of a three-year National Science Foundation program that brings teachers into the workplace. Teachers who participated last year were joined by new teachers on the grant who were given the opportunity to explore technologies used in Connecticut companies.

 

The teachers were required to job shadow and ideally work on a project at a company for 40 to 80 hours. The knowledge they gained from the experience was the impetus for the development of a required work-based learning project to be introduced into their classrooms this fall. (For more information on these projects, go to http://www.cbia.com/ed/Educators/nsf/work_based_curriculum.htm )


CBIA would like to extend gratitude to the following companies for participating as hosts in the externship program:

Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals

Pratt & Whitney Aircraft

UCONN Health Center

Bristol Meyer-Squibb

Hamilton Sundstrand

Carrier Manufacturing

Unilever Home Products

Jacobs Associates

Coherent Deos

Trumpf, Inc.

U.S. Submarine Base

Friar Associates Architects

Computer Science Corporation

Zygo, Inc.

Yardney Lithion

L & W Research

Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

Mystic Aquarium Institute for Exploration

Fuss & O’Neill

URS

Hamden Police – Traffic Division

Dianon Diagnostics

 

Complementing the second year of the program was a day-long symposium highlighting developments in the usage of bionanotechnology. The event, which was produced by BEACON and sponsored by CBIA through NSF funding, brought teachers and students together to learn from leading scientists in this fast-growing, emerging technology field.

 

Another event included a two-day workshop on how to recruit and retain girls and women in technology-related careers. (Click here for more information about this workshop. )For more information about this event, or any other events connected with this National Science Foundation program, contact Mary deManbey at demanbem@cbia.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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