2012 Noyce Conference Program - The Robert Noyce Scholarship ...

PI POSTER ABSTRACTS101Title: SUNY Cortland Noyce ProjectNSF Noyce Award Number: 0934777Principal Investigator: Gregory PhelanEmail: gregory.phelan@cortland.eduInstitution: SUNY CortlandCo‐PI(s): Rena Janke, Larry Klotz, and Mary GfellerPresenter(s): Gregory Phelan, SUNY Cortland,gregory.phelan@cortland.eduRena Janke, SUNY Cortland, rena.janke@cortland.eduKerri Freese, SUNY Cortland, kerri.freese@cortland.eduThe SUNY Cortland Noyce Project proposes to award 50 scholarshipstotaling $670,000 to highly qualified science and math majors,or career changers, seeking to become K‐12 teachers. Thirty‐five scholarships (10 graduate and 25 undergraduate) havebeen awarded to 27 Noyce Scholars. The average GPA of undergraduateNoyce Scholars at time of application is 3.6. Sixty‐nineapplications were received by the end of the Project’s secondyear, May 31, 2011.Primary recruitment methods include campus and communityoutreach. Campus outreach includes SUNY Cortland websitearticles and Scholar spotlights, campus and alumnae newsletters,posters, information sessions, and faculty education. Communityoutreach includes press releases, science fair participation,public service announcements, and rack card distribution atcareer centers and the local business showcase.A second year of Noyce Scholar workshops, addressing issuesrelated to successfully teaching in a high‐need environment,were well‐attended. Sixteen Scholars and teachers from localhigh‐need districts participated in a two‐hour ”walk and talk”event at the local nature center. Thirty‐five Scholars, teachersand faculty attended a more formal workshop session at SUNYCortland. The workshops have shown to be successful in buildinga solid Noyce community both within the campus and within theCentral New York region, and strengthening the skill set of NoyceScholars.102Title: The Syracuse University Noyce Scholars Program for Scienceand Mathematics Teachers: Preparing STEM Educators forHigh‐Needs Rural and Urban Schools.NSF Noyce Award Number: 0934841Principal Investigator: John W. TillotsonEmail: jwtillot@syr.eduInstitution: Syracuse UniversityCo‐PI(s): Sharon Dotger, Joanna Masingila, Jason Wiles, andEileen StrempelPresenter(s): John W. Tillotson, Syracuse University, jwtillot@syr.eduLaura Stanley, Syracuse University, listanle@syr.eduThe Syracuse University Noyce Scholars Program for Science andMathematics Teachers (SU‐Noyce) is a multi‐faceted projectinvolving Syracuse University and the Upstate Louis Stokes Alliancefor Minority Participation (LSAMP) consortium, partneringwith area high‐needs school districts and a network of informalSTEM education centers from across central New York with thegoal of increasing the number of highly‐qualified science andmathematics teachers teaching in our nation’s neediest schools.The specific goals of the project include: 1) Offering substantialscholarships to prepare 36 additional highly‐qualified secondarymathematics and science teachers (years 2‐5 of the project), afull 41% increase over the current capacity; 2) Creating a multimediarecruitment and advertising campaign to attract a diverseand academically gifted pool of applicants for the SU‐NoyceScholars Program (years 1‐5); 3) Offering 24 paid summer internships(6 per year during years 2‐5 of the project) for talentedSTEM undergraduates to participate in service learning programsworking with students from high‐needs schools; 4) Facilitatingthe supported transfer of diverse STEM majors from our communitycollege partners into SU’s teacher education programs; 5)Providing a robust and sustained mentoring and professionaldevelopment program for the SU‐Noyce Scholars during theirfirst three years of teaching in a high‐needs school; and 6) Conductinga rigorous external project evaluation to measure theoverall effectiveness of the SU Noyce Scholars program on anannual basis.Our poster session will report on the outcomes of specializedprofessional development workshops for our first two cohorts ofNoyce Scholars focused on strategies for success in teachingscience and mathematics in high‐needs urban and rural schools.We will also share the evaluation results from our first two yearsof offering summer internship opportunities in informal STEMcenters, as well as some of the challenges we have faced in recruitingNoyce applicants.103Title: TTU STEM Majors for Rural Teaching (TTU‐SMaRT)NSF Noyce Award Number: 1136403Principal Investigator: Stephen RobinsonEmail: sjrobinson@tntech.eduInstitution: Tennessee Technological UniversityCo‐PI(s): Holly AnthonyPresenter(s): Stephen Robinson, Tennessee TechnologicalUniversity, sjrobinson@tntech.eduThe TTU STEM Majors for Rural Teaching (TTU‐SMaRT) programis a new Phase I Noyce Scholarship program at Tennessee TechnologicalUniversity (TTU). We are recruiting from the more than2300 STEM majors at TTU with the aim of producing approximately24 certified teachers in Math, Physics, and Chemistry forthe rural Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee over the 5‐yearA412012 NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program Conference