The STEM COLLECTIVE
October 16, 2018
Back from Break!
***TONIGHT*** East Tennessee STEM Hub Fall Regional Meeting
The Fall Regional Meeting is tonight, Tuesday, October 16th from 4:30-6:30 at Roane State Harriman. There will be lots of FREE STEM resources, information, news, and opportunities.
Sign up here to RSVP (it's free!) Don't worry if you haven't RSVP'ed they would love to have you!
Hands-On Science, Coming up soon!
VEX Robotics Competition
VEX Worlds
VEX IQ
VEX Robotics
Win a Makerspace Mega Pack K-12!
STEAM Carnival and Festival
Have a Dot and Dash Robot?
Training Opportunity for High School Teachers
Learn more about Respberry Pi, Python, UX and Web Development. The workshops will be in Knoxville at the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center from 9am-3pm each day. Teachers will need to pre-register since we are limited each day to 20 seats. The workshop is open to any TN high school teacher. Maximum of 2 teachers per school each day.
Raspberry Pi microcomputers and Python (November 14, 2018)
Research Experience for Teachers
Calling all FIRST Robotic Competition Teams!
Cool Resources
Curiosity Machine
eCYBERMISSION
Keep me updated!
Tweet the awesome stuff your kids are doing!
Bearden Middle School
STEM Learning with the MUSE
Bearden Elementary STEAM Night
Grant Opportunities
- Association of American Educators Grant: $500, Deadlines October 1st and March 1st. Classroom grants can be used for a variety of projects and materials, including but not limited to books, software, calculators, math manipulatives, art supplies, audio-visual equipment, and lab materials. Funds must be used within one year of the application deadline.
- First Energy Grant: Up to $1,000 for PreK-12th-grade teachers for projects and teacher professional development in the STEM disciplines!
- Toshiba: grants for 6-12 with the next deadline coming up December 1st.
- eCYBERMISSION Mini-Grant: The United States Army Educational Outreach Program is offering this grant to support teachers and program leaders as they implement the eCYBERMISSION program in the 2018-2019 school year. For educators of grades 6-9. Deadline is October 17.
- If you ever need help with grants, please consider contacting the STEM Coach if you need ideas on what to get with grants, or Dr. Laura Denton, the Grants Development Manager, for help writing it up. Dr. Denton is a wordsmith, and very willing to help you achieve your goals! Her email is laura.denton@knoxschools.org.
- Please let me know if you choose to pursue a grant, to help me know which items are of most interest to you! april.lamb@knoxschools.org.
KCS STEM
Email: april.lamb@knoxschools.org
Website: http://knoxschools.org/stem
Location: 912 South Gay Street, 10th Floor, Knoxville, TN, USA
Phone: 865-594-1576
Twitter: @kcs_stem