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The Center for Science and Environmental Outreach is planning to pilot two after school science classes for grades 1 to 3 students and grades 4 to 6. The classes will begin the week of Jan. 14, 2013 and run for eight weeks, ending the week of March 8. The classes will be held one day per week from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the Great Lakes Research Center or Nara Nature Center. Parents will be responsible for their children’s transportation.

The Center invites parents to take a short survey to provide input so that we can design a program that best meets parents’ needs and students’ interests. We appreciate your help.

From Tech Today, by Joan Chadde, K-12 education program coordinator, Center for Science and Environmental Outreach.

Coordinator Joan Chadde (Educational Programs) was in Detroit Nov. 19 and 20 to assist high school teachers conducting forest stewardship field trips on Belle Isle as part of the USFS-funded Urban Forest Stewardship Initiative. 140 students and their teachers from Cass Tech High School, Detroit Collegiate Preparatory High School, Ronald Brown Academy, and Ben Carson High School participated in the three-hour field trips each day.

From Tech Today.

On the Road

Coordinator Joan Chadde (Educational Programs) and the Center for Science & Environmental Outreach is coordinating the Urban Forest Stewardship Program for 18 schools, 40 teachers, and nearly 900 students in Detroit.

From Tech Today.

DPS students ‘Go Green’ with a tour of Belle Isle through the Urban Forest Stewardship Program

With an emphasis on projects that have a positive fiscal impact but also contribute constructively to student achievement and community health and well-being, Detroit Public Schools is designing and implementing a comprehensive Sustainability Management Plan encompassing energy, waste management, transportation, nutrition, and indoor and outdoor site environments that involves educators, students and parents as well as an array of partners

The Urban Forest Stewardship Program provides teachers with the training and resources needed to integrate forestry into their curriculums.

Read more at Detroit Public Schools.

Associate Professor Michele Miller (ME-EM) and Coordinator Joan Chadde (Educational Programs), “Self-efficacy and Engineering Interests Development in Elementary School Aged Students at After-school Maker Workshops,” NSF

From Tech Today.

Coordinator Joan Chadde (Educational Programs) and the Michigan Tech Chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (Uzi Mendez, Michael Briseno, Gilbert Ramirez and Armando Flores) along with Tech student volunteers Jess Hammersley, Margaret Brunette, Tyana Bogicevic and Sukaina Miftah, conducted a Family Engineering Night for 300+ Hispanic students and their parents at the Harrison Park K-8 School in Grand Rapids, Nov. 19.

From Tech Today.

Education Program Coordinator Joan Chadde attended the 2012 Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Conference in Houston. Chadde co-presented “Get ‘Em While They’re Young with Family Engineering” with chemical engineering major Kerstin Cleveland, as well at the SWE Outreach Expo and the Invent It. Build It! session for middle school girls and parents to promote the Family Engineering program.

From Tech Today.