Science Education News

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Science Learning Center Welcomes First Group of Local Students for 2023-2024

Fifth grade students explored the SLC, an important stop on the Long Beach College Promise Tours which provide all 5th graders in the district with an opportunity to visit campus and see themselves as a college student in the near future.
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Science Education Heads to the Desert for 2023 CASE Conference

The Department will again be well-represented at the upcoming California Association of Science Educators annual conference to be held in Palm Springs, October 20-22, 2023.
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NCSEC Continues International Collaboration

The National Center for Science in Early Childhood continues its collaboration with Venus Kindergarten in Beijing China, working with 24 teacher-leaders in 2023. This professional learning program helps teachers better understand how promoting a child's sense of wonder can foster early childhood science.
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Students Awarded for Expressing the Art of Science

Kudos to Nicole Eng, Michael Price, and Arianna Saenz, recipients of the Joe Russo Art of Science Scholarship for 2022! The scholarship, established to honor Mr.
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CSULB Physics features in the 5+ Club, again!

The collaboration between the Physics & Astronomy and Science Education departments has continued to garner success in credentialing multiple teachers in Physics in a single cohort.
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Two Department Faculty Awarded 2022 California Teacher of the Year

Excellence in Science Teaching…times two! Faculty members Al Colburn and Angelica Gunderson honored as 2022 California Teacher of the Year.