Noyce Scholarship Program Summer Conference
This summer, I attended the fourth annual Robert Noyce Teaching Scholarship Conference in Washington, D.C. along with Karen O’Connor, Executive Director of CUSP, and Dr. Trina Crowley, Associate Director. The conference, which was organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), included many speakers, workshops and a poster presentation by attendees. This year’s theme was “Building Excellence in STEM Teaching.”
One keynote speaker from the conference, Steve Robinson, Special Advisor to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, entertained us with his personal journal, from his time as a classroom teacher to the moments he spent in President Obama’s office, when the President asked him what the biggest problem was in his classroom.
We also heard from a panel of Noyce Scholars, talented STEM majors who are given generous scholarships to become K-12 teachers. They shared their personal experiences about being first year teachers and how the Noyce Scholarship Program helped them along the way.
CUSP’s Noyce Scholarship Program is recruiting its second cohort of new teachers. Follow the link for the latest news.
The 2009 Conference Program Book, with biographies of speakers and poster abstracts can be found here (pdf), and the AAAS article about the conference is here.
Katie Powell designed this poster that we presented at the conference
