Hello! I hope this finds you well and enjoying the final stretch of summertime.
We at the Hub have been gearing up for the upcoming school year and are looking forward to sharing lots of great resources and opportunities to bring STEM and CTE to life in our region. Some initiatives coming your way include:
- Partnering with our early childhood education providers for STEAM enrichment
- Bringing our rural K-8 STEM educators together for regional and statewide learning collaboratives
- Providing STEM support and professional development for our region’s out-of-school educators
- Expanding computer science and digital literacy offerings and integration for preschool through post-secondary
- Collaborating with business, industry, and educators to coordinate educator externships
...and so much more! We’ll be reaching out soon with more information and invitations to join us in this work of building a STEM and CTE ecosystem here in Linn and Benton. Stay tuned!
The Hub team and I have also had the opportunity this summer to do some trips and tours to visit excellent partner programs around the state: CTEC in Salem, the Paxton-Patterson labs at Santiam Canyon’s beautiful new middle and high school campus, and our friends with the Talent Maker City community makerspace in the city of Talent. While in Talent, we heard about the devastation of the pandemic coupled with the Alameda fires and how the community united to 3D print PPE, build beds and provide charging stations for the displaced, and care for one another with clarity, compassion, courage, and calm - as the photo at top proudly declares. Seeing these projects in person and learning about the creative ways each school and program partners to solve complex problems with STEM and CTE has inspired us all!
Thanks and be well,
Sarah Whiteside, Director
Mid-Valley STEM-CTE Hub
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IGNITE Career-Connected Learning
Grant Opportunity
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Calling all education, business, economic development, student, and community partners!
We've been working hard this summer to gather data about career-connected learning needs and opportunities in our region. On Wednesday, September 1, a group of almost 60 educators, business and industry partners, economic & workforce development folks, and community partners convened to learn about these needs and opportunities in Linn and Benton county.
We presented our findings and shared a grant opportunity to work together to develop strategies to strengthen our regional economy and build the workforce of tomorrow. If you were unable to attend, please check out the links below and let us know if you or someone on your team would like to participate in this effort:
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The Mid-Valley STEM-CTE Hub Educator Lending Library is here! Starting on September 7th, we will be soft-launching the lending library as we ramp up to full launch on September 30th. The collection features classroom sets and kits of some of the most innovative and engaging educational tools and toys available, including BBC Microbits, KEVA planks, LEGO, Sphero Bolt robots, as well as tablets and laptops. Take a look at our lending library catalog and see what all we have to offer!
If there are STEM-related teaching tools that you know you want for your class and don’t have access to, please let us know so we can try to fill that gap! Email midvalleystemctehub@linnbenton.edu.
Are you interested in 3D printing? The MVSCH wants to support you! We are planning to offer 3D printing machines for check out, an entry-level course for educators, and classroom support for teachers who would like to bring 3D printing to their classrooms.
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Resources, Events, & Upcoming Opportunities |
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Oregon Open Learning Workshop: Tuesday, September 12th |
The Oregon Open Learning Hub is a digital resource repository and collaboration space for educators, administrators, and other educational partners to curate, create, and remix open educational resources (OER). The Hub is a portal to over 50,000 openly licensed resources available on OER Commons, searchable by grade level, subject, and standard.
Groups you can join in the OER Hub:
The Oregon Open Learning team will host a statewide OER workshop on Tuesday, October 12th from 4:00 - 5:15 pm. Register for the event here and share the opportunity with your colleagues. This flyer has all of the details. Contact the Oregon Open Learning Team at OregonOpenLearning@state.or.us with any questions. To receive the Oregon Open Learning monthly newsletter, sign up here.
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Webinar Recording: Bring Summer Camp to the Classroom |
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* Watch the workshop here. * View the slideshow and access Makey Makey resources here.
Contact Chris if you'd like to learn more about you can use our Educator Lending Library to check out Makey Makey kits to use in your classroom. |
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Professional Development Opportunity: High School Science Teachers |
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The MJ Murdock Charitable Trust makes $19,000 grants for high school science teachers to do research in university labs for two summers. The grant includes teacher stipends of $6500 as well as travel and academic year enrichment funds for each of the two years. The program’s vision is to give teachers an authentic research experience doing innovative science in an academic lab or research facility to ultimately influence classroom practices—facilitating more hands-on research to inspire learning and spark innovation.
The MJ Murdock Trust invites high school science teachers and university researchers to attend a virtual meet and greet on Wednesday, Sept. 22 from 4:30 - 5:30. Learn about opportunities for grant-funded collaboration.
This virtual event will provide an overview of the Partners in Science Program and an opportunity to get your questions answered about this professional development opportunity.
Learn more and register here. |
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Career Opportunity: OSU College of Engineering - Coordinator of Student Outreach and Recruitment
The College of Engineering is seeking a Coordinator of Student Outreach and Recruitment. This is a full-time (1.0 FTE), 12-month, professional faculty position.
This position is an opportunity to advance and sustain the goals of the College of Engineering for broader participation of underrepresented groups in engineering. The Coordinator of Student Outreach and Recruitment will foster relationships with the K-12 education community to collaborate on programs to bring more awareness of the variety of careers in engineering.
View the job posting here. |
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Now Hiring: CAP (Community Before and After School Childcare Program)
Community Before and After School Child Care Program (CAP) in Albany is hiring! They are looking for a STEAM Curriculum Coordinator and teaching staff.
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September's Social Media Support |
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Proper graphic sizes and resolutions |
In this month’s installment of Social Media Support, we’ll be covering proper graphic sizes and resolutions. As you may already know the resolution of graphics and photos online is directly related to how nice they look at certain sizes. The higher the resolution the better your image will look at larger sizes.
A good rule of thumb when searching for an image on Google to repost is to make sure you refine your search to “large” images. You can do this by clicking the “Tools” button then going to the “Size” menu and selecting “Large”.
How to find image size on Google:
- Select your desired image by clicking on it.
- Next, let your cursor hover over the preview of the image on the right-hand side of your screen. A small black rectangle will appear in the bottom left of the image preview with a number like 1600x900.
- That number is how many pixels wide and tall your selected image is. The larger those numbers, the higher the resolution of the image.
Standard image sizes and ratios for popular social media platforms:
- Facebook standard photo post: 1.9:1 - 1200x630
- Twitter: 2:1 - 1024x512
- Instagram: 1:1 - 1080x1080
If you have a question or have a topic you'd be interested in learning more about in an upcoming newsletter, feel free to reach out!
Kacey Montgomery, Marketing Specialist
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Manley Jobs: Knife River - Ready Mix Concrete |
We proudly support our grantee Blake Manley, a teacher from Sweet Home School District, and his YouTube channel Manley Jobs. In Manley's latest episode, he takes us to Knife River Corporation to get a look inside the concrete industry.
Manley Jobs is a great resource for students interested in a career in the trades and/or STEM. Look for upcoming episodes featuring Pacific Power and OFD Foods!
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Do natural sciences and forestry pique your interest? Well, then you are in luck. The long-awaited C2C Trail is finally open. After 50 years and 50,000 hours of effort, the 60-mile trail from Corvallis to Ona Beach will take backpackers and bike-packers through the Oregon Coast Range and Siuslaw National Forest. This area is great for wildlife viewing, mushroom hunting, fishing, and much more.
Go enjoy this local treasure. Just remember, be a good steward to the land, take your trash with you and leave no trace.
Read the full story here. |
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Save the date: October is Manufacturing Month! |
Our Manufacturing Month activities kick off annually on the first Friday in October with Manufacturing Day (MFG Day) with other events continuing throughout the month, MFG Day helps show the reality of modern manufacturing careers by encouraging thousands of companies and educational institutions around the nation to open their doors to students, parents, teachers, and community leaders.
Check out what we did for last year's Manufacturing Month here. |
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