STEM Summer Academy - Supported by Academic Outreach Programs

Program Overview
During the workshop, Rensselaer faculty members will provide several innovative project-based learning sessions that will give participants experience in integrating transdisciplinary STEM-based tools, technologies, and practices into their high school’s curriculum. The sessions will include presentations, discussions and applications of Culturally Situated Design Tools; Mathematics Education Tools, Mobile Studio Pedagogy, and IT in Biology. The faculty will also expose the participants to ways that they can incorporate these technologies, pedagogies and educational practices into classroom experiences through principles developed in Rensselaer’s Design Studio.

Faculty instructors for this workshop include:

Don Millard, Coordinator
Director of the Rensselaer Academy of Electronic Media

Ron Eglash
Associate Professor in Science and Technology Studies

Brad Lister
Director for the Center of Innovation in Undergraduate Education

Lester Rubenfeld
Director of the Center for Initiatives in Pre-College Education and Professor of Mathematical Sciences

In the summer of 2008 the first STEM-based workshop was held for several Cleveland, Ohio, high school teachers and administrators visiting from MC²STEM High School Hub and the Design Lab Early College High School—new STEM high schools that focus on innovative teaching and learning opportunities for students in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. That workshop took place from Sunday, August 3 through Friday, August 8, 2008.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty members will provide a STEM-based summer workshop on the Institute’s campus Sunday, June 14 through Friday, June 19, 2009 for several Cleveland, Ohio, high school teachers and administrators visiting from MC²STEM High School Hub.

Learn more about Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's “progressive dialogue” on ways to improve K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, Click here.

Interested in a custom training for your state, district or school? Program Inquiries/Questions: For further information about a custom program, Request Information, or contact, Mike Gunther, Program Manager for Recruitment, (518) 276-8351, gunthm@rpi.edu.

Last modified: June 11, 2009