Jasmine R. from Houston High School, Class of 2020 shares her thoughts on the Global Teaching Projects’ Advanced STEM Winter Program, Jackson, Mississippi.
My name is Megan Kenny, and I am a fourth year (senior) at the University of Virginia. My major is Astronomy-Physics, but I also love to take poetry writing classes and classes in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies. I also do research on the Sun (specifically studying the hot gas out in the Sun’s atmosphere-called the corona- and in the expanding corona-called the solar wind). The Sun is very quiet right now, meaning there isn’t much energetic activity going on, but it’s still good to understand these ‘background conditions.’ More violent solar activity can include the ejection …
From January 17-20, 2020, we successfully conducted a four-day, residential AP Winter STEM Program for participating and prospective AP students at Millsaps College and Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi.
We are grateful for the many educators that work tirelessly with us to help improve student achievement in the state of Mississippi. Among them is Dane Peagler, a teacher at Starkville High School, and a Supervisory Instructor for the Global Teaching Project. Dane has taught numerous STEM courses at Starkville High School for the past 6 years, and currently serves as an AP Physics 1 and AP Computer Science Supervisory Instructor for our Mississippi Pilot Program. A graduate of Mississippi State University with a B.S. in Physics, Dane has received recognition for his teaching abilities throughout the course of his …
We have passed the mid-point of our 2019 Advanced STEM Preparatory Summer Program at Mississippi State. To date, the program has gone very well. Our 49 students, who are from 13 high schools, are engaged and attentive, and learning a great deal. They also are benefiting from a range of ancillary activities, and every one of them has begun their college applications under the supervision of successful applicants to some of the nation’s leading universities. Also, our students are in good spirits and seem to be having a lot of fun. The summer program at Mississippi State has proven a very …
