HiPACC Education/Public Outreach Press Room. From: UCD
The Education/Public Outreach Press Room highlights opportunities made available to K-12 or university students or the general public, to learn more about astronomy and computational or data science in all fields, offered by the UC campuses and DOE laboratories comprising the UC-HiPACC consortium. The wording of the short summaries on this page is based on wording in the individual releases or on the summaries on the press release page of the original source. Images are also from the original sources except as stated. Press releases below appear in reverse chronological order (most recent first); they can also be displayed by UC campus or DOE lab by clicking on the desired venue at the bottom of the left-hand column.
November 4, 2014 — 'Igniting Genius': Conference on STEM education
Credit: Harry Cheng
UCD 11/4/2014—“Igniting Genius: Lighting the Spark for All” was the theme of the fourth annual Conference on Integrated Computing and STEM (C-STEM) Education at UC Davis on November 9. Organized by the university's Center for Integrated Computing and STEM Education (C-STEM Center), the conference brought together teachers, researchers, educators, policymakers and industrial partners to share their experiences, best practices and ideas on the future direction of STEM education. Two preconference workshops introduced K–12 teachers to the C-STEM curriculum and programming.
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September 4, 2014 — C-STEM Center high school math, robotics courses approved for UC admission
The C-STEM Center’s goal is to transform K-14 STEM education through the use of innovative computing and robotics technology to promote hands on learning that engages students in activities that relate STEM concepts to real life applications.
UCD 9/4/2014—Starting this fall, it will be easier for California high schools and intermediate schools to include UC-ready courses from the UC Davis Center for Integrated Computing and STEM Education (the C-STEM Center), in their curricula. That means that high schools can now readily adopt this research-based curriculum to help close the achievement gap and prepare students ready for career and college. Annual activities of the C-STEM program culminate in C-STEM Day held each May, when teams of schoolchildren gather to demonstrate their programming skills. The C-STEM Center will host the fourth annual Conference on Integrated Computing and STEM Education at UC Davis on Sunday, Nov. 9. The conference will bring together teachers, researchers, educators, policymakers and industrial partners to share their experiences, best practices, and ideas on the future direction of integrated computing and STEM education.
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May 27, 2014 — Schools robotics day at UC Davis and in Orange County
UCD 5/27/14 — C-STEM Day, the annual celebration of school students’ skills in programming, robotics and math on Saturday, May 31, at UC Davis and at UC Irvine involved over 100 student robotics teams. C-STEM Day is the culminating experience for middle- and high-school students who have been working for the past year with science, technology, engineering and math curricula developed by the UC Davis Center for Integrated Computing and STEM Education, with support from the National Science Foundation. The students used Barobo Linkbots—small reconfigurable robots—to learn programming, algebra, and math in a fun and accessible way.
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May 2, 2014 — The Exploratorium and UC Davis announce science and sustainability partnership
Kwan Liu Ma, director of the UC Davis Center for Visualization, co-developed an interactive exhibit uses data visualizations and touch interactions to allow users to explore plankton populations around the world. Credit: Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis photo
UCD 5/2/14 — UC Davis, and the Exploratorium in San Francisco have formally partnered to incorporate the latest scientific innovations into the museum’s exhibits and programs. The partnership will encompass a broad cross section of research topics, such as environmental science, sustainable energy, data visualization, coastal and marine sciences, and sustainable agriculture and food science. This strategic five-year partnership with UC Davis is “designed to be an open and generative partnership among our scientific and educational staffs,” said Dennis Bartels, Exploratorium executive director. “It’s already resulted in exhibits on our floor like the highly interactive world plankton table, which broke new ground in the hot area of scientific data visualizations.”
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