SuperQuest Free Professional Development: Updates

 Registrations for all 7 sites now open. More Graduate Credit options approved. More courses at multiple sites. New courses. FAQ added to the pulldown menu. Change of venue in Wilsonville. Check it out at oregoncsta.org. Changes have been coming fast and furious — kinda like playing PacMan or Asteroids, so I have been mostly absent from […]

Where can I register? Everywhere I click on the photo, I end up in Wilsonville. Oops! Apologies, we left up a prototype. We expect to have it fixed by Monday. As of Friday, June 10, 6:49 pm, click on these links for more info and to find the bright orange registration buttons under the list of […]

Congratulations to Chris Bartlo and Nick Nohner. Why? Chris Bartlo is also teaching at SuperQuests in Wilsonville and Southern Oregon this summer. Respectfully submitted, Jo Oshiro, jo@oregoncsta.org Update: Southern Oregon, not Grants Pass Update: Embedded video! Featured image

Course descriptions updated here. Site descriptions — exactly where? What courses? Touristy links? and, for a couple of sites, who is speaking at lunch? Wilsonville, June 22-24 **note venue change to Clackamas CC!** Wilsonville Symposium, June 25 West Salem, June 27-29 Redmond, July 13-15 Pendleton, July 20-22 ** corrected from 20-23 ** Newport, July 27-29 […]

From our allies at Google: “The sixth annual Google Science Fair is here and now open for submissions for students aged 13-18 around the world. In partnership with National Geographic, LEGO Education, Scientific American, and Virgin Galactic, we want to hear how students will use science and engineering to make something better. Check out the […]

— note especially 3D, Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, Lemelson Center; different from Smithsonian Education — which has a search function for resources by subject, grade level, etc. NASA has a wealth of resources. Dive in at the NASA educator portal.  OSU is a Space Grant University and has their own set of resources posted here.   The National Science Digital […]

I’ve been blogging here for about a month now. I started knowing nothing about WordPress, the content and formatting platform that we use. I’ve made 8 blog posts and about a dozen pages of SuperQuest information. I definitely know enough to be dangerous, and googling scraps of code results in less than predictable, beautiful, organized […]

Oregon has multiple robotics organizations and leagues supporting authentic STEM learning. In no particular order: Oregon Robotics Tournament and Outreach Program runs the tournament circuits for FIRST(tm) robotics. FIRST is an international organization For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, spearheaded by the inventor of the Segway, Dean Kamen. Junior FIRST LEGO League, ages […]

Jo’s Top Picks HowToSmile — science, math, and more tied to standards. Some materials in Spanish. Includes materials from multiple other repositories, such as TeachEngineering. Searchable by standard or subject — search “engineering” and “computer science” explicitly as they are not on the topic pages. Highlights cost per student, time, prep time, learning time. Intel’s […]

Congratulations to Mark Gullicksen, Oak Grove Elementary School, in Albany. He got some “good STEM news” which he thinks “is a direct benefit from my involvement with OCSTA’s professional development opportunities that I have participated with as an educator. This Monday, I was humbled to learn that I was selected as one of 20 teachers, […]