September 12, 2011

Fellow Zephen Specht (2010-11) and teacher partner Duke Raley (Eastlake High School) were featured in an article about the American Chemical Society (ACS) Science Coaches program. Zephen, along with fellows Emily Satkiewicz, Kristina Mitchell, and Carmen Velez, received funding for an after-school club that introduces scientists into the classroom.  

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March 26, 2011

This year's San Diego Science Festival had two booths with Socrates Fellows! The booth planned and run by fellows was themed San Diego's Next Top Science Model. Fellows also helped with the Can You Conquer Cancer? booth put on by Celgene and run by San Diego High, with help from the Eastlake science club students.

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February 7, 2011

For 2011, two Socrates Fellows alumni were inducted into the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, which recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate. 

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December 1, 2010

CyberBridge chemistry teacher Sofia Sandoval from Southwest High was recently profiled for her innovations in the classroom.

Read the article in the San Diego Union-Tribune.

October, 2010

CyberBridge teachers Dr. Donna Ross of Health Sciences High and Stephanie McCormack of Castle Park High discuss the role of student-produced media when teaching bacterial transformation, one of the ScienceBridge Labs.

Read the article in the National Science Teachers Association journal The Science Teacher.

(Journal article requires NSTA membership)

October 6, 2010

Changing the Equation: San Diego Science Festival Receives National Recognition for Advancing STEM Education

The San Diego Science Festival and Agilent Technologies, a major sponsor of the Festival, were recently recognized for their efforts to increase student interest and achievement in science education by President Obama’s nationwide “Change the Equation (CTEq)” initiative, which seeks to improve science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in the United States.

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July 16, 2010

On July 16, a special group of high school students was the first to test the 2010-2011 Socrates Fellows' newly created classroom activities and hands-on experiments.

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June 10, 2010

CEO/Principal Craig Rocha of Steele Canyon High School expresses his gratitude for the efforts of UCSD and Socrates Fellow John Yamauchi.

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August 24, 2010

Congressman Bob Filner visits Castle Park High School to see how ScienceBridge programs are bridging the science and technology gap.

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June 7, 2010

UCSD Socrates Fellow Meg Eckles teamed up with Jeff Kepper, a 16-year veteran biology teacher at Helix Charter High and with Debbie Byrd, the school’s AP environmental science teacher to teach bee ecology. Eckles is one of nine other Socrates fellows, all doctoral students, enriching the high school science curriculum of various San Diego area schools with cutting edge science from UCSD. The fellowships are funded through a science education grant from the National Science Foundation.

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