CGUHS student among youngest presenters at this year’s SciTech conference
CASA GRANDE — Merlin D’Souza has always liked science. And at age 15, the Casa Grande Union High School sophomore will be among the youngest presenters at the eighth annual Arizona SciTech Festival conference Oct. 3 in Mesa. During the conference, she’ll talk about the ever-growing STEM field and the new careers it has created. […]
EpiFinder Meets Future Scientists and Technologists
On July 19, 2018, members of EpiFinder’s business team, Jessica Acosta, Smita Gopalakrishnan, Jing He, and Joe Son, attended the CSO Expo Event at Arizona State University, where 70 middle and high school students gathered to explore their interest in STEM and network with professionals. These students are Chief Science Officers, or CSOs, who strive […]
CGUHS Robotics Team Plans to Reach Out to Elementary School Students
CASA GRANDE — The Casa Grande Union High School robotics team already has a busy season underway. On Saturday, the team attended a workshop for educators at Arizona State University. Attending the workshop with the team as a guest was Desert Willow Elementary School Principal Melissa Pieper. Students from the robotics team plan to team […]
Meet AmeriCorps VISTA Kaci Fankhauser
On my second day as an AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) with Arizona SciTech, I accompanied my new supervisor to an organization offering youth courses in robotics, 3D modelling, game development, and virtual reality – all things which I, as a biologist, imagined as only existing in the futuristic lab-caves of Silicon Valley. The existence of […]
ASU partnered with the Chief Science Officer program to promote STEM education
Arizona students in grades six through 12 learned to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics and to foster innovation in their schools and communities at the Chief Science Officer Summer Institute, July 16 to 19. The CSO summer institute is a collaboration of efforts from the CSO program and the ASU Biodesign Institute, Environmental Health […]
STEM-Loving Teen Inspired by National Conference
“By COLLEEN SPARKS Managing Editor An Arizona College Preparatory-Erie Campus teen who likes sharing her technological savvy with younger students participated in an international program where Nobel Laureates shared words of wisdom. Elaina Ashton, 16, of Chandler, who will be a junior at ACP-Erie this coming academic year, was chosen to take part in the […]
A Message from STEM Leader Bruce Jones
Leaders, It is a very exciting season with changes happening all over, from the draft science standards to changes in personnel, not to mention the walk out. As scientists and educators we know that one set of Cross Cutting Concepts is Stability & Change. The idea or perception of stability is really an application of […]
Meet the CSOs – Elaina from Phoenix, Arizona
“My interest in STEM and robotics started when I was very young, fortunately having the influence of two engineers as parents. As I grew up robotics was a big part of my life and morphed into sharing, connecting, and communicating my passion for STEM to everyone around me.” Accomplishments: Along with serving as the captain […]
ASU Biodesign Institute opens labs to Arizona Chief Science Officers
ASU’s Biodesign Institute opened it’s labs to Arizona’s Chief Science Officer students for one-of-a-kind event meeting with scientific mentors and touring the state-of-the-art research laboratories up close. The students came from all over the state, and were broken up into teams and were paired up with Biodesign scientists, who introduced the students to their area […]
Phoenix Union High School CSOs Host First Council Meeting
Chief Science Officers from Phoenix Union High Schools and their teachers were joined by Mr. Claudio Coria, Executive Director of Leadership at the district, Jedi Mentors Reginald Jackson (State Farm), Dan Mahaffey (Pinnacle Transplant), and Jessica Hauer (ASU Science is Fun), and the CSO project team for the first ever Phoenix Union STEM Council meeting. […]
