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Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence (AzCASE) — Meet the STEAM Stars of Country Music

Frank Moraga | November 29, 2022

Meet the STEAM Stars of Country Music!

National AfterSchool Association

Give your students a backstage pass inside the world of Country Music to see how STEAM skills make the magic happen both on and off the stage. Explore a variety of all-new standards-aligned digital resources including a Video Topic Series and student activities for classrooms and families.

Working in Harmony celebrates the ways STEAM skills are used to spark creative problem-solving and collaboration in the Country Music industry. The Video Topic Series shows students how STEAM is used to create the sounds, sights, and buzz for a country music event.

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Moonshot Teen Science Cafe Opportunity

Apply by November 28th!

Are you a motivated afterschool site director, specialist, or facilitator already working with teens ages 12-18? Do you serve teens who are underrepresented in STEM careers? Are you interested in collaborating with scientists and engineers in your community?

Bring Teen Science Cafés to teens ages 12-18 in your community. Support 20 or more teens throughout the 2022-2023 Teen Science Cafe (TSC) program year and help them become Teen Leaders and innovators in their community. No experience in STEM is required.

Selected program facilitators, Fellows, will receive a $2,000 stipend for their efforts.

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AZ BIG Media

Here are the winners of Governor’s Celebration of Innovation

The Arizona Technology Council, in partnership with the Arizona Commerce Authority, has announced the winners of the 2022 Governor’s Celebration of Innovation awards. Winners of this prestigious annual award program represent the best of the best in Arizona’s technology, science and education ecosystem.

Building trades seek youth to fill jobs

Gilbert High School seniors Mason Reading and Lucas Beals attended this year’s Arizona Construction Career Days because they wanted to know more about the industry. Clarissa Tonkin, a student at the East Valley Institute of Technology, was there because she hopes to take her construction training into a decorative arts career. The three were among a record 4,428 Arizona students participating in the 21st-annual event, organized by the Phoenix-based Association for Construction Career Development and hosted by the Arizona National Guard in Papago Park in Phoenix.

The Spatially Gifted — Our Future Architects and Engineers — Are Being Overlooked

Edutopia

Between two and three million students possess strong spatial talents—the types of valuable aptitudes that help engineers and scientists imagine new technological innovations, architects visualize innovative structures, and carpenters conceive of complex builds.

Yet even though spatial skills and reasoning can be measured with paper-and-pencil tests that gauge kids’ abilities to mentally rotate and visualize objects in three dimensions, we aren’t consistently doing that. And so spatially gifted students often struggle in school, don’t receive the specialized attention they need, and are generally overlooked by gifted and talented programs, according to research published earlier this year by The British Psychological Society.