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NIACC Family STEM Festival
Saturday, October 20
1-4 PM
Ride a Virtual Reality Roller Coaster!
Travel the solar system in a planetarium!
Explore the inside of the human body in 3D!
Create with Spooky Chemistry!
Bring your whole family to the NIACC Family STEM Festival on Saturday! Experience FUN activities at this hands-on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) event being held at NIACC. The festival is free and open to the public. We will have Spooky Chemistry and 3D Human Anatomy Experience (organs, bones and muscles, OH MY!) just in time for Halloween. Brought to you by North Iowa Area Community College, the Central Rivers AEA, and the Iowa Governor’s STEM Advisory Council.
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Iowa Science Teaching Section Conference
The Iowa’s Governor STEM Council presented at the Iowa Science Teaching Section Conference on Oct. 8 in Ankeny. The Conference theme was Cultivating Science Literacy in 3D. The North Central Hub Manager, Kelly Bergman, and Northwest Hub Manager, Mary Trent, demonstrated hands-on STEM Resources that included STEM in Action kits and Pint Size Science materials. The North Central Hub office has these resources and more available for educators to check out.
https://www.ncstemhub.iastate.edu/stem-resources
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Meet STEM Advisory Board Member Michael Young
Dr. Michael Young, Associate Professor of Mathematics at ISU, learned an important lesson in graduate school that helped him succeed. “Once I realized that doing mathematics isn’t about getting the answer the fastest, that it is about understanding and learning the process of problem solving, then I knew that I would need to slow down and talk with others to be as successful as possible.”
In fact, problem-solving is a running theme through Dr. Young’s work and advice to young students. His research focuses on Discrete Mathematics and includes graph theory, combinatorics, and game theory. It is the problem-solving that he enjoys most about Mathematics and collaborating with others to solve problems.
Dr. Young is also active in the equity aspects of mathematics education. He created the Mathematicians of Color Alliance (MOCA) which recruits and supports underrepresented students. Recently, some of the first African-American students have graduated with PhDs in Mathematics at ISU with support from MOCA. He is also serving on the North Central STEM Regional Advisory Board and the STEM Council’s Equity Working Group.
His advice to math students is to slow down and focus on understanding and learning the process of problem solving. “Make it a habit of asking ‘Why does this work?’ or ‘Why does this not work?’. This will give you the ability to not only do math, but to discover and create it too.”
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Dr. Kelly Bergman
Iowa State University
1259 Stange Rd
Ames, IA 50011-1002
Phone: 515-203-7247
Email: kbergman@iastate.edu
Website: ncstemhub.iastate.edu
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2018-19 NC STEM Advisory Board
Lindsey Falk, St. Ansgar
Ashley Flatebo, Garner
Doug Jacobson, Ames
Sara Nelson, Ames
Michael Pedersen, Marshalltown
Ben Petty, Conrad
Kathy Rogotzke, Mason City,
Sarah Rosenblum, Marshalltown
Camille Sloan Schroeder, Boone
Kerry Weig, Nevada
Nancy Woods, Boone
Richard Wrage, Boone
Michael Young, Ames
David Zrostlik, Garner
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Upcoming Events:
October 20
- NIACC Family STEM Festival, McAllister Hall NIACC
October 22
- DMACC Ankeny STEM Fest, 6-8 pm
November 9
- STEM Advisory Board Meeting, Noon
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Advisory Board visits the Story County Active Learning Experience Program STEM
On September 28, The North Central Region Advisory Board attended a presentation by The Story County Active Learning Experience (SCALE) program, a STEM BEST awardee. The SCALE Program serves Ames, Ballard, Collins-Maxwell, Colo-NESCO, Gilbert, Nevada, and Roland-Story School Districts. The program provides students with work-based learning opportunities with area businesses. Presenters included John Kinley, Program Director, and program instuctors Audra Duster, Julianne Manock and Mike Stott.
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