[SEMCO] CASE Conference 2014: Registration is now open

[McCoy, Kim]

Registration is now open!
For information regarding registration, session descriptions, check out our website<http://webhost.bridgew.edu/citylab/CASEConference2014.html>.
If you would rather go straight to registration, click registration<https://secure.touchnet.com/C20026_ustores/web/store_main.jsp?STOREID=25&SINGLESTORE=true>.
Register early so you can pick your sessions.  We sold out last year.
CASE Conference 2014:  Advancing STEM Education

When: Thursday, February 27, 2014 (snow date: Thursday, March 6, 2014)
Where: Bridgewater State University, Conant Science and Mathematics Center
Time:  2:30 PM (registration until 3:30PM) to 9:00 PM with buffet dinner provided
Cost: $30

Preview of Conference Highlights:
ü Exhibitor demonstrations during registration
ü Two workshop sessions including topics in STEM to STREAM, integrating GREEN technology, teaching ecological concepts using watershed studies, using games and puzzles in connection with mathematics lessons, incorporating green chemistry principles into the lab, utilizing LEGOs to teach DNA and protein synthesis, IPad technology in the classroom, climate change and other STEM related activities.
ü Plenary session by Allison Scheff, Executive Director of STEM and the Governor's STEM Advisory Council at the Department of Higher Education.  Ms. Scheff will focus on elements of the STEM Plan that can be implemented at the classroom level and will ask participants to share strategies that they use in the classroom that helps further the goals of STEM Plan 2.0.
ü Keynote address by Julie Huber, PhD, Associate Scientist and Associate Director at the Josephine Bay Paul Center - Marine Biological Laboratory.  Dr. Huber is a microbial oceanographer by training and is broadly interested in microbial ecology and understanding how microbial communities establish, function, and evolve in diverse ecosystems.  During her address titled, Pushing the Limits: Microbial Life at Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents, we will explore the extreme life on Earth at deep-sea hydrothermal vents using examples from research expeditions around the globe.

If you have any questions, please contact Maura Whittemore, Administrative Assistant for CASE at mwhittemore at bridgew.edu<mailto:mwhittemore at bridgew.edu> or Kim McCoy, Assistant Director for CASE at kmccoy at bridgew.edu<mailto:kmccoy at bridgew.edu>


Kim McCoy
Assistant Director of the Center for the Advancement of STEM Education (CASE)
Staff Program Coordinator, Watershed Access Lab  www.bridgew.edu/wal<http://www.bridgew.edu/wal>
Staff Program Coordinator, CityLab http://webhost.bridgew.edu/citylab/
Bridgewater State University
Conant Science and Math Center Rm 265
Bridgewater, MA 02325
(508) 531-2630

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