Reach for the Stars GK12 Fellowship
Reach for the Stars is an NSF program that places STEM graduate student fellows in K-12 science classrooms for the academic year, with the goal of enriching their education and strengthening their development as researchers by advancing their communication and teaching skills. The fellows work in partnership with a collaborating teacher to bring more inquiry-based teaching methods into the classroom and to further expose K-12 teachers and students to the research process. Through Reach for the Stars, GK-12 fellows will adapt concepts of computational thinking and actual computational modeling tools from their research work to classroom activities connected to the existing math and science curriculum. After funding from the National Science Foundation grant ended, Northwestern now funds the program with graduate fellows at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) each year.
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- Reach for the Stars Puts Scientists in Classrooms (SESP, 2010)