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The Education group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) offers a
wide range of community outreach programs that bring cutting-edge research and
science curriculum to students, teachers and parents. SDSC provides support to
both local and national entities that promote mathematics and science education
for K-12, undergraduate, and graduate level students. The San Diego
Supercomputer Center invites you to explore our site and see what exciting
programs we offer to teachers and students.
February Highlights
Celebrating Cultural Diversity Through Digital Art and
Media
In honor of the celebration of Black History and American Cultural Diversity
in the month of February, SDSC hosted a workshop to incorporate the use of
collected and found photography, as well as other graphic imagery that is
relevant to the theme of personal identity. Participants created a collage
that represented the participants’ own individual cultural and historical family
heritage. The artwork created represents the participants’ concept of cultural
diversity and showcases the tapestry of cultures and diversity that enrich our
contemporary society.
View the images created during this workshop in Flash format or HTML format.
View
a video of the students and the outstanding collages they created.
These images will also be shared with the UCSD community through digital
display screens located at the UCSD Price Center during the month of February.
The workshop was presented by Scott Flanders, Scott Flanders
Art.
Upcoming TeacherTECH Workshops and Seminars
Science Series Seminars
UCSD And TSRI’s SMART Team Program for High School
Students
Team Web Page Creation: Saturday,
January 23, 2010, 9:00am- 12:00pm
The San Diego-based SMART Team
program is a new Howard Hughes Medical Institute-supported pre-college science
outreach program aimed at introducing high school students to basic concepts of
protein structure and function. The program aims to involve students in a series
of innovative activities focused on protein structure in which students work
with research labs to design and build a physical model of the protein being
investigated in a local research lab. .
If you are interested in learning
more, please let us know.
Step-by-Step Biotech: An 8-Part Workshop Series – Attend Just One or
All Workshops to Create Your Own Biotech Course!
Beginning Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 4:30pm-
6:30pm
High School Teachers are invited to attend an exciting new
TeacherTECH workshop series focused on biotech. This workshop series will
provide you with the building blocks to confidently introduce standards-based
hands on laboratory activities into your lesson plans. These activities may be
integrated into your classroom teaching as stand alone activities or be stung
together as a combined series of labs to create an entire biotechnology course.
The workshop series will begin with basic introductory level activities
and build on to more advanced topics both in content and equipment requirements.
We will cover the basic use and applications of the equipment used. You will
have the confidence to reproduce these lab activities in your
classroom
Presented by Essy Levy, BioRAD
The
Global Impact of Climate Change
Coming March
2010
Preserving our planet needs to take front stage in the way we
live on a daily basis. For example, global warming is an increasing concern that
could exponentially worsen if we continue to ignore the harmful effects of
fossil fuels. Although our trees absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and this helps
to slow down global warming, by ignoring recycling campaigns and choosing to cut
down trees for paper production, we contribute directly to climate change. This
workshop will correct some common misconceptions about weather and climate
change
Presented by Memorie Yasuda, Earthguide, University of
California, San Diego
K-12 Professional
Development Offered by the San Diego County Office of
Education
Are you up for a little professional learning
to sharpen your skills? Data Intensive Science, Environmental Education,
Robotics, Science Fair, Family Science, High School Science Forums and more are
all offered to interested teachers by the San Diego County Office of Education,
Science Department!. Log on today and enroll in an opportunity for youand/or
your students! For additional information, please contact Nancy Taylor, K-12
Science Coordinator, ntaylor@sdcoe.net.
To view the
2009-2010 Professional Development calendar, please see http://www.sdcoe.net/pd_calend.asp.
Upcoming TeraGrid and CI Workshops
There are no upcoming workshops at this time.
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