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Quinnipiac University is hosting its annual High School Programming Competition on Saturday, April 14, 2018.  Attached you will find an announcement and registration form.  Up to three teams from each high school are welcomed.

The registration deadline is Saturday, March 31, 2018.

Code.org offers free, high-quality professional development workshops from experienced computer science facilitators for elementary school teachers.  The workshop specifically focuses on Fundamentals course.  

There is usually one workshop each month offered in Connecticut.  The next one is scheduled for February 10, 2018.  For more information or to register, use the links below.

General Link: https://code.org/professional-development-workshops

Link for Feb10 workshop:  https://studio.code.org/pd/workshops/3619/enroll

Skills21 is offering a PD on personalized learning and Capstone.  The program is supported by an NSF grant and focuses on STEM and entrepreneurship.

Personalized learning and senior year Capstone experiences are uniquely suited to work together to achieve important STEM learning outcomes for students.  If you currently have, or are considering adding, a Capstone course to your high school curriculum, you will benefit from this two day professional development session from the learning specialists at EdAdvance’s Skills21.  Skills21 has a National Science Foundation supported Capstone course which can serve as a model for any district that wants to apply its lessons learned.  The STEMStarter Capstone program focuses on promoting entrepreneurial traits in students and increasing STEM career interests.

Day 1 (Tuesday, March 13, 2018) will be focused on professional development that will allow teachers and administrators the opportunity to explore the Skills21 approach to personalized learning, challenge based lesson design, and the Skills21 Capstone curriculum.  Day 1 will be held at the Chrysalis Center in Hartford from 8:30-2:30.

Day 2 (Friday, May 18, 2018)  of the workshop will give participants an opportunity to interact with students that are currently enrolled in this course during the 2017-2018 school year and then actually be a judge for these same projects as part of the 2018 Student Innovation Expo Fest. This judging experience will also provide an opportunity to interact with Trackpad, our customized platform designed to facilitate the judging and assessment of Capstone projects.  Day 2 will be held at Expo Fest at the Toyota Presents Oakdale Theater in Wallingford, CT from 12:00-4:00.

To register for this professional development opportunity go to this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekKyGeTe6hC1vEB47p8l5dj-d9yUyH5-FPmgHFb--v0xtnAQ/viewform.

For more information follow this link: Capstone and Personalized Learning PD https://www.skills21.org/capstonepd

For more information contact Liz Radday at radday@edadvance.org

The Statistics Symposium, taking place on Saturday, March 3, during the Teachers Teaching with Technology™ (T³™) International Conference in San Antonio, Texas, will give you new ideas and resources to use with students from grades 6–12. 

The sessions will focus on key concepts for statistics and probability:

• Highlighting why they are important
• Giving examples that can be used in your classroom
• Showing how the concepts connect and build toward AP® Statistics
• Illustrating how technology can be used to help students learn the concepts

In addition, the AP® Statistics Chief Reader will describe some new initiatives from the American Statistical Association to engage teachers and students in statistical activities. The day will close with a vision of what the future might be given the advent of “big data.”

Presenters include renowned mathematics educators:

• Gloria Barrett, T³™ National Instructor, Pittsboro, North Carolina
• Ellen Breazel, Ph.D., AP® Statistics Development Committee Member, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
• Landy Godbold, T³™ National Instructor, Atlanta, Georgia
• Deborah Nolan, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California
• Stephanie Ogden, Ph.D., Director, AP® Content Development – Calculus and Statistics, The College Board
• Paul Rodriguez, AP® Statistics Development Committee Member, Troy High School, Fullerton, California
• Jessica Utts, Chief Reader, AP® Statistics, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California

The T³™ International Conference also includes two full days of hands-on professional development sessions for math, science and STEM educators. When you register for the conference, you can take advantage of a $30 discount by using code ETC30 at check out.

For those of you who haven't already registered for the next Math Encounters presentation, we are happy to announce that Susan Goldstine will be presenting "The Fabric of Symmetry: Connecting Mathematics and Fiber Arts" on Wednesday, February 7.

About the talk: What do knitting, embroidery, and beadwork tell us about symmetry?  What does symmetry tell us about design in textiles?  Join us in an exploration of contemporary mathematical fiber arts with Susan Goldstine, Professor of Mathematics at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and Associate Editor of the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts.  Special introduction by Robert P. Crease, Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University.

MoMath is pleased to offer two sessions of the upcoming Math Encounters presentation.  The first will begin promptly at 4:00 pm, with light refreshments served afterward.  The second will begin promptly at 7:00 pm, with light refreshments served beforehand, at 6:30 pm.  Both presentations will be held at MoMath, which is located at 11 E 26th Street in Manhattan.

Note that if you are waitlisted, you will not be admitted to the seating area until all registered participants have been accommodated.

Register for the 4:00 pm presentation

Register for the 7:00 pm presentation

To learn more about Math Encounters, visit mathencounters.org.