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  Every spring Dayton Regional STEM Fellows collaborate to provide students opportunities to interact with local STEM government and industry representatives.  Often this is done in the form of classroom engineering design challenges, classroom visits and career day guest speaker events.  Opportunities for students to explore cutting-edge local STEM careers and career skills are hard to […]

Tim Carey’s classroom and DECA Prep were recently featured on the Thomas B. Fordham website!  Click the following link to read more: Celebrating National Charter Schools Week: DECA Prep is a high-quality learning lab.

Momentum Building in Advanced Learning STEM innovations fueling achievement in the classroom. Five short months ago, Dayton and 20 other communities, committed to the Lumina campaign with the goal of drastically increasing the number of local residents with postsecondary credentials. As “research shows a direct correlation between thriving cities and education beyond high school,” said […]

Dayton Regional STEM Fellow Ben McCombs from Kettering’s Van Buren Middle School will be recognized at NSTA’s National Conference as a recipient of the 2014 PASCO STEM Educator Award.  This prestigious national award annually recognizes five educators who demonstrate an excellence in innovation in the STEM education arena.  Mr. McCombs has participated in the Dayton […]

Heidi Steinbrink and Tom Jenkins were recently selected to fly aboard NASA’s SOFIA in the spring of 2014. NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, will become a flying classroom for teachers during research flights in the next few months. Twelve two-person teams have been selected for SOFIA’s Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors program, representing educators […]