From your Board: May Monthly Meeting, Updates, and a call for proposals!
We hope your break was relaxing, you are re-energized, and ready to finish the year! We are looking forward to rounding out the most unusual year in recent memory and want to help you feel supported and appreciated.
In this Bulletin: May Meeting, Workshops, Proposals, and Scholarships
Our Next Chapter Meeting!
Join us on May 10 for our next Chapter Meeting meeting!
Derek Aguiar graduated from the University of Rhode Island with B.S. degrees in Computer Engineering and Computer Science, and earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University, advised by Professor Sorin Istrail. He completed his postdoctoral work at Princeton University with Professor Barbara Engelhardt. "My research aims to develop probabilistic machine learning models, combinatorial algorithms, and scalable inference methods to better understand high-dimensional data, particularly genomics and genetics data applied to complex disease."
Associate Professor of Math Education, Neag School of Education
Highlighting what a course-taking pathway might look like for a math ed or a science ed student, as well as discussing current relevant projects including outreach
CONNECTICUT STEM FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS FOR 2021
The Connecticut STEM Foundation is excited to announce its scholarship program in 2021 for Connecticut students aspiring to STEM careers.
Two $2,500 scholarships will be offered in 2021.
These scholarships will be awarded to applicants who participated in the 2021 CT STEM Fair. Deadline for receipt of applications is Friday, June 4, 2021.
As in the past, CT STEM Foundation will offer two summer scholarships to undergraduate students planning to attend a college/university summer STEM course, a summer internship program, an informal science education program or a tuition high school summer education program. Depending upon tuition and expenses, up to $500 is granted for each scholarship. One is awarded to a rising sophomore, junior or senior high school student. The other is
awarded to a middle school student. Deadline for receipt of applications is Friday, June 11, 2021.
Application forms are available on the CT STEM Foundation’s website, ctstemfoundation.org,
under the Scholarship section.
CSTA (Computer Science Teachers Association) New England has a call for proposals for the October 16, 2021 CSTA Conference. Do you have a great CS idea? Are you interested in networking with other CS teachers? Please mark your calendar for the conference and consider proposing to present.
Programming concepts in Python. Using pandas library to manipulate and explore a dataset. Create simple visualizations using Matplotlib. This is a 2-day workshop.
Participants will need a Google account to use Google Colab.