Educational organizations meet up on campus to discuss best practices for making sure STEM initiatives in K-12 through graduate programs are accessible to all students.
Author: ARIANA TURIANSKY
Educators and advocates from a variety of local and Southern Nevada institutions came together on Feb. 10 for the inaugural UNLV STEM Education Meet, a first in a series of events focused on K-12 through graduate STEM and STEAM education.
In a great show of collaboration, representatives from across UNLV’s campus were joined by neighboring NSHE institutions (NSC, CSN, and DRI), with others coming from charter schools; the Clark County School District (CCSD); the Governor’s Office of Science, Innovation, and Technology (OSIT); and the Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program.
Representatives from OSIT provided information about their current STEM education and workforce initiatives. OSIT is in collaboration with CCSD to develop strong STEM schools and archive proven STEM programs that instructors can implement themselves.
The event was a kick-off for UNLV’s efforts in researching, implementing, and innovating best practices in STEM education and the brainchild of Marta Meana, a longtime UNLV administrator and psychology professor, and of Hasan Deniz, science education professor and director of UNLV’s Center for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering Education.
As the need for STEM talent grows exponentially, UNLV is in a unique position to educate a new and diverse generation of experts in STEM fields. President Keith E. Whitfield, in a demonstration of UNLV’s commitment to supporting state and national workforce needs, named Meana as a strategic STEAM advisor: a role that comes with the hefty responsibility of evaluating and advising on the current state of STEAM education at UNLV.
Read more here: https://www.unlv.edu/news/article/unlv-all-stem-education
