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New Mexico State University

SC2: Scientifically Connected CommunitiesInspiring the next generation of scientists!

Terri Hansen, Susan Brown and Hernan Miranda, College of Education

Students making models
Teachers doing hands-on science

SC2 receives financial support to continue during 2007-2008 school year

We are thrilled that SC2 has been funded by the New Mexico Public Education Department for the second year (2007-2008) to continue to provide professional development to primarily middle school science teachers in the Las Cruces/Gadsden area. SC2 will expand the program this year to include the southwestern region of New Mexico: Silver City, Deming, Lordsburg, and surrounding towns. We are excited and looking forward to the opportunity of working with these educators!.

SC2 has obtained grant monies for materials and resources for science teachers from the Toshiba Foundation and the Albert Pierce Foundation. The Toshiba Foundation has enabled SC2 to begin a lending library of PASCO technology for teachers. The Albert Pierce Foundation grant will enable teachers to take students on field trips to study environmental science. We'd like to acknowledge and thank them for supporting enriched science education in New Mexico.

Some of the lending library materials that will be available to science teachers throughout the school year include PASCO technology, hydrology kits from EPSCOR, digital scales, density sets, geology sets, physics equipment, electricity equipment, rocket launchers, altitude finders and spectroscopy equipment. SC2 will be adding to this lending library throughout the year.

As teachers are required to obtain "highly qualified" status and post-graduate degrees are necessary to reach Master Teacher Level III status, SC2 has supported teachers through scholarships for teachers to further their education. Enterprise Foundation has granted some SC2 teachers partial reimbursement for their masters level course tuition. Through her contacts in the higher education institutions in New Mexico, Dr. Susan W. Brown has provided full scholarship opportunities for many teachers in collaboration with the University of New Mexico, Noyce Foundation, and the New Mexico State University Alliance for the Advancement of Teaching & Learning. We gratefully acknowledge and thank them for their very generous support.