CHiPR Summer Educational Interns at Stony Brook

Starting in the summer of 1997, CHiPR conducted a Summer Educational Interns program with the following goals:

1. Provide college level students who are training to become science teachers with research experience tailored toward presenting science to secondary school students as a process of discovery.
2. Develop, test with students, and disseminate to teachers, lesson plans for learning experiences in scientific investigation for secondary school classes.
3. Enhance the skills of future teachers who demonstrate an interest in contributing to the quality of science education in schools with large populations of African-American students.
4. Encourage members of demographic groups that are under-respresented in the sciences to consider careers in science education.

The Summer Educational Interns program was conducted in parallel with CHiPR's existing Summer Scholars Program. Participants were be provided with room and board on the SUNY Stony Brook campus for ten weeks during the summer, and received a stipend and a travel allowance. The core of each intern's experience during the ten weeks was to conduct a research project that could be tailored for educational use. Subsequently, the interns derived lesson plans from their work. They also worked with CHiPR educators to engage a group of pre-selected secondary schools students in their projects. Toward the end of their ten-week experience, the interns integrated their lesson plans into CHiPR's Research Projects for Earth Science Classes teacher workshop.

1997: Two students participated in the program the summer of 1997. They were Keisha Rhines from Delaware State University and Jennifer Keller from SUNY Stony Brook.

1998: Two more students participated the summer of 1998. They are Trudy Hyde from Delaware State University and Linda Selvaggio from SUNY Stony Brook.

1999: Three students, all from SUNY Stony Brook, participated in the program the summer of 1999. They are Liisa Mai Markowitz, Biology major; Corina Galdau, Biology major; and Linda Selvaggio, Geology major, (joining us for a second summer).

2000: Two students participated in the program the summer of 2000. Vincent Ugenti, a Computer Science major at SUNY Stony Brook worked on interactive Java-based tools for seismology education; Katie Vaughan, from The Colorado College at Colorado Springs, studied the grain size distribution and mineralogy of sand on a barrier island.

2001: Four students are developing and conducting inquiry-based science programs for the Stony Brook University Summer Camp.

Links to Student Projects

• Corina Galdau
• Trudy Hyde
• Jennifer Keller
• Liisa Markowitz
• Linda Selvaggio
• Katie Vaughan

Last modified October 3, 2002