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Welcome

Kim Case, Executive Director,

R&D Council of NJ,

and NJSPN Lead

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Agenda

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• Welcome
• Watershed Institute Remarks
• NJSPN Updates
• NJ STEM Month Awardees
• Attendee Announcements
• Closing
• Nature Walk

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Guest Speaker

Jeff Hoagland

Director of Education Watershed Institute

NJSPN Updates

Kim Case, Executive Director,

Research & Development Council of NJ, and NJSPN Managing Partner

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Shirley Mautone, Programs Manager, Research & Development Council of NJ, and NJSPN Project Manager

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Add Your Events to Our Calendar!

Innovation RFP/Grant

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Innovation Fund Grant

• Funding Source
• NJ STEM Strategic Advisory Board fees

• Timeline
• Deadline to apply March 10th
• Announcements of awardees March 17th
• Funds awarded - April

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• $75,000
• Competitive process for any STEM programming statewide
• Up to $75,000

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Innovation Fund Grant Recipients

2023 Innovation final total - $100,000

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• $48,170.00 - Delran
• $18,144.00 - HSMC
• $8,935.65 - Kinnelon
• $24,750.35 - S2S

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Delran Digital Fabrication

Innovation for the Middle Grades

and Beyond

Region: South, Delran SD, Burlington County

Summary Impact

• Students served: 750 initially
• Focus Area: Middle school students
• Timeline: Start date: ASAP; End date- June 17, 2023
• Area of innovation: Creation of a Fabrication Lab For Middle School, funds used for equipment, computers, etc. that will be used for years to come.

HSMC Ecosystem Nucleus Building

Region: Central - Hunterdon, Somerset and Mercer Counties

focus on Flemington-Raritan SD

Summary Impact

• Students served: 150+
• Focus Area: STEM summer camp K-8, First Electric Vehicle Student Race Cohort
• Timeline - Summer 2023 camp, RaceCar teams 2023-2024
• Area of innovation: Greenpower USA Racecar - New Jersey’s First Electric Vehicle Student Race Cohort

STREAM at Kinnelon Public Library

Region: North, Kinnelon, Morris County

Summary Impact

• Students served: Kinnelon Public Library serves 2,500 youth and their familie
• Focus Area: Early learning, PreK focus
• Timeline: Anticipated start September 2023
• Area of innovation: STEM opportunities for young learners, Library partnership with school district

Students 2 Science (S2S) Career Advancement Program Advancing STEM Careers

Region: North and Central, Focused on under resourced districts in Essex, Union, Passaic, and Somerset Counties

Summary Impact

• Students served: Approx. 4,000
• Focus Area: High school students
• Timeline: Start planning June 2023, September 2023 CAP launches with academy-based programs (i.e. PASE, Paterson STEAM, Newark) November recruiting additional districts
• Area of innovation: HS student focus. Region and students they will support is a plus

We’re excited to welcome our new Middlesex County Ecosystem!

“I CAN STEM”

Diversity & Inclusion Campaign

NJ STEM Month

STEM Showcase at State House

NJ STEM Month 2023 Recap

• Mini-grants distributed: 46
• Learners Impacted by Mini-Grants: 10,968
• Total Number of Events: 100+
• Estimated Total #of Learners: 74,141

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Special shoutout to our partner NJ Makers Day!

Mini-Grant Stories

STEM Advocate of the Year

New Jersey Technology and Engineering Educators Association (NJTEEA)

(Accepted by Frank Caccavale, Executive Director of NJTEEA)

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STEM Civic Leadership Award

Reeti Rout, President of WeMake4H

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STEM Collaboration of the Year

Governor’s STEM Scholars and the Network Contagion Research Institute

(Accepted by Arling Moctesuma, Programs Manager of the Governor’s STEM Scholars and Prasiddha Sudhakar, Rutgers University Student)

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STEM Educator of the Year

Krystina Valdes, Science Teacher at North Brunswick Township Middle School

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STEM Corporate Champion of the Year

Allan Croly, Senior Program Manager at Lockheed Martin

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NJ STEM Month 2023 Award Winners

WeMake 4-H

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STEM 4-Her

Reeti Rout

Demographics of STEM Careers

My Journey

—ANIYAH DOTSON

WeMake 4H

4H center

Libraries

NJ Makers’ Day Workshop

Boys and Girls Club

STEM 4-Her

National Girls Collaborative Project

Million Girls Moonshot

STEM Next

Youth Advisory Board member - to contribute the NGCP projects done for increasing diversity in STEM fields. NGCP provides “If Then She Can” mentor database.

Member of the Inaugural MGM Flight Crew - to broadcast the importance of diversity in STEM on national platforms and panels.

Project EDGE - to create a STEM curriculum for middle school-aged girls to make them interested in STEM fields.

THANK YOU!

Website: http://www.wemakenj.org/

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Email: wemake4h@gmail.com

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Twitter: @WeMake4h

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The Governor's STEM Scholars & The Network Contagion Research Institute

2023

STEM Collaboration Of The Year Award

Arling Moctesuma, Governor's STEM Scholars

Prasiddha Sudhakar, Network Contagion Research Institute

THE GOVERNOR'S STEM SCHOLARS

Introduces NJ’s high achieving high school and college students to industry, academic, and government research in New Jersey, to establish a profound relationship between these students, STEM, and New Jersey.

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By making genuine connections between the Scholars and STEM representatives from the research community, we are keeping these STEM students here to become New Jersey’s future STEM professionals.

NCRI

• Governor's STEM Scholars Cyber Forensics Laboratory, a first-of-its-kind initiative to train NJ high school students in cyber-social threat identification and forecasting.
• 9 of the 128 Scholars
• Learn to identify and analyze threats
• national and state public health
• critical infrastructure
• online extremism
• social media manipulation of capital markets

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OUR COLLABORATION

www.govstemscholars.com

THE NCRI SCHOLAR TEAM

2023 Scholars Participants: Nima Fallah, AJ Boyle, Kevin Chen, Ryan Elyakoubi, Srivatsa Kundurthy, Audrey Kuo, Danielle Park, Riya Shenvi, and Kavya Venkatesan

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www.govstemscholars.com

STUDENT WORK & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

SOCIAL CYBER THREAT IDENTIFICATION TRAINING

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MEDIA EDUCATION AND LITERACY

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SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS: QUANTITATIVELY

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PROJECTS - DE-PLATFORMING

& CRYPTO MANIPULATION

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IN THE MEDIA

THANK YOU, ALLAN CROLY of Lockheed Martin

Delran STEM Ecosystem Alliance partner

• Lockheed Martin- Moorestown
• Delran STEM Ecosystem Alliance partner since 2016
• Allan is a Delran resident
• Father to Sydney and Jason
• Graduate of Delran High School Class of 1985

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Lockheed Martin Partnership

Lockheed Martin is a longstanding partner of DelranSTEM, supporting events like this one through grant funding & providing volunteers.

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STEM Engagement Nights

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Thank you to Lockheed engineers Allan Croly and Emmanuel Azadza

Thank you to the 22 STEMbassadors who worked side by side with families. We can’t wait to work with them throughout 2022-2023

STEM Fair 5/15/23

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• Lockheed Martin rocked the house in the Media Center
• As well as the 20 volunteers who worked alongside STEMbassadors to engage students in hands on activities in the gym

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Lockheed Martin Women in Engineering

• The program is in person again!
• 10 girls attend each year, with the help of Allan and his colleagues
• These young women will hear from female engineers, meet other girls from area schools and participate in engaging activities with a goal of solidifying a STEM career pathway.

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Lockheed Martin, inspiring the next generation of women in STEM

AP Chemistry Grant

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Thanks to Allan, students in AP Chemistry were blessed with a grant to Mrs. McVay for Vernier calipers, which allow real time data collection of physical science phenomena.

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AP Chemistry student demonstrates the thermal properties of materials, allowing ice to remain cool.

Krystina Valdes

North Brunswick Township Middle School

8^th Grade Physics Teacher

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Graduate of Northeastern University

Admitted to Northeastern University’s doctorate physical therapy program

Soon realized that it just wasn’t for me

Graduated with a degree in Chemistry in Elementary and Secondary Education

North Brunswick Township Schools

Currently in my 15 year of teaching, 13 of those years with North Brunswick

In North Brunswick, I began teaching 8th grade academic level science, including most of our ICR classes, at Linwood Middle School

• The curriculum needed a change and enhanced
• Needed more student driven learning rather than teacher driven learning
• Project Based Learning activities like new Angry Birds game levels and Paper Roller Coasters added
• The curriculum was fun and rigorous at the same time; kids learned and there was a shift in how many viewed science.

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North Brunswick Township Schools

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Algebra Based Physics Course – 8^th Grade�2017-Present

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• Took over instruction of the high school level algebra based physics course for 8^th graders
• The curriculum needed a change – needed to be rigorous but enjoyable.
• Student Centered and Project Based Learning
• NGSS based lessons - the new learning standards used in NJ
• The NGSS helped me change me as a teacher and how I looked at science and presented to my students

Opportunities

• There was a need for more opportunities for the students to be exposed to more STEM, be confident and wanted to open a path for them.

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• Support classes emerged to offer students ways to improve their confidence in STEM courses that they may not have had in years prior

2020 – Year of Change and Growth

During the pandemic hit and the opening of North Brunswick Township Middle School

• Evolution of the Physics program from once it once was
• Students changed
• Building dynamics changed
• One hurdle after another

2020 – Year of Change and Growth

• My realization: if I stayed the same, I would not reach my students.
• The pandemic expedited changes in education that were bound to happen
• Used the NGSS to my advantage phenomenon based learning
• Allowed students to ask questions and find answers to their question they had
• Sensemaking about the topics they had questions about and construct arguments about their findings
• Designed projects based off what interests 13 and 14 year olds and ways to solve problem.

Physics Fundamentals

Our support class evolved over time due to the nature of the pandemic and student’s needs.

• We lost our block scheduling this year which is difficult for STEM courses to recover
• Physics Fundamentals supplemental course came to light this year
• Support physics and algebra through means of Project Based Learning
• Tailor the course to allow additional supports to students in need
• Connections are being made to real world situations
• The use of math and physics is seen throughout the course
• Continues to developed for more opportunities for all

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Post Pandemic: Physics

The pandemic brought so much unfortunate loss and so much change at a rapid pace – especially in education

• Wealth of opportunities that we must continue to unlock
• The evolution of the middle school physics program has allowed more and more underrepresented students to not only take part of the course and be extremely successful in the process.
• The percentage of Hispanic students has increased from 5% to 20% of total students in the course
• The percentage of black students has increased from 7% to 22% of the total students in the course

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Post Pandemic: Physics

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I’m excited for the future and will continue to seek opportunities in to be to reach more and more students to learn in this accelerated setting.

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As an educator it’s my job to provide these opportunities and be as inclusive as we can as we continue to more forward in the 21^st century.

Setting STEM Priorities for FY 2024 (Group Breakout)

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