Science News - USA (2021-02-13)

SOCIETY UPDATE

During the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, the Society for Science has found ways

to continue supporting STEM education.

In a year of educational disruption, the Society for Science

pivoted its programming in 2020 to provide STEM research

kits to educators that would encourage scientiic inquiry

in all settings, regardless of whether the teachers were

guiding their students remotely, in person or through

a hybrid model. Participants in the Society’s Advocate

Program, STEM Research Grants program and research

teachers conferences chose from a selection of 13

high-quality kits, which included Foldscope instruments,

PocketLab weather sensors and Neuron SpikerBox Bundles.

By providing teachers with this equipment, the Society

wanted to ensure hands-on research and project-based

learning could carry on, despite the circumstances.

In 2020, the Society gave

• 7, 8 4 4 kits valued at more than $415,000


• To 373 teachers from over 270 schools


• In all 50 states and Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C.,
  and American Samoa


• Impacting over 15,500 students

Sustaining research

outside classrooms

The kits were funded by

Educator Sharon Taylor (pictured at bottom left) prepared foldable microscopes

(bottom right) this past December to be shared with her students.

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