🏅 Community Takes the Podium!

🏅Olympic Community

Competition is certainly a thing, but the special moments come when Olympic community takes the podium. The start of the school year is an exciting time for STEM Pre-Academy because we get to witness the teaching community come together with the common goal of educating the students of Hawai‘i. 

We invite you to join us for this new academic year of teaching, learning, sharing, and community!! 

(To that end, we’d very much appreciate 5 minutes of your time to complete this anonymous survey. Team work makes the dream work! 🙌🏼)
 

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🍎 Join Us for a Toolkit Talk on Newton’s Laws!

 

Saturday, August 24, 2024
9:00am – 11:00am
Mānoa Innovation Center
 

There will be ample time for hands-on exploration with a few of the tools we offer in our Toolkit for Teachers as well as a chance to discuss how these tools can be used in the classroom and some advice and reflection from teachers who have already used them.

Special Guest Speakers – Marielle Dilks and Richard Coffey, 8th grade science teachers, Aliamanu Middle School

Applicable NGSS Standards

• MS-PS2-1 – Apply Newton’s Third Law to design a solution to a problem involving the motion of two colliding objects.

• MS-PS2-2 –  Plan an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends on the sum of the forces on the object and the mass of the object.

• MS-ETS1-1 – Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem

• MS-ETS1-2 – Evaluate competing design solutions

• MS-ETS1-3 – Analyze data from tests to determine similarities and differences

• MS-ETS1-4 – Develop a model to generate data
   

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In the Field – Exciting STEM Opportunities 

NASA Techrise Student Challenge – https://www.futureengineers.org/nasatechrise

The challenge invites student teams in sixth-12th grade to submit experiment ideas to fly on a high-altitude balloon flight. It includes teacher professional development opportunities, free educational resources to foster STEM in the classroom and an exciting student virtual field trip in the fall. Learn more!
 

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Upcoming Events

Toolkit Talk – Newton’s Laws (register now)
Saturday, August 24, 2024, 9am to 11am
Mānoa Innovation Center

Deep-Sea Ecology Workshop for Teachers (apply now)
Two Saturdays, August 7 and 14, 2024
UHM Marine Science Building

Hawai‘i Science Teaching Association (HaSTA) Conference (more information)
Saturday, September 14, 2024
McKinley High School

Schools of the Future Conference (more information)
Thursday and Friday, November 14 and 15, 2024
Hawai‘i Convention Center
 

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Notes and Reminders

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Mahalo and have a great semester!

The STEM Pre-Academy Team