STEM Boot Camp - 2023

We are excited to share with you a great opportunity we have for virtual, FREE, year-long STEM professional development focused on learning more about integrating STEM, problem-based learning, and our free STEM Road Map curriculum published by NSTA!

We are happy to introduce the STEM Boot Camp Academy - designed and delivered by the authors of the STEM Road Map curriculum series published by NSTA. Participants in this PD will receive FREE PD, one FREE STEM Road Map curriculum book, and a year-long opportunity to work with teachers across the U.S. to learn how to implement integrated STEM in their middle and high school classrooms. 

You will receive support to develop YOUR OWN, integrated STEM PBL unit, aligned with your standards and couched in your local context or a global problem of interest to your students.

The program includes 45 total hours of virtual, live, professional development, which includes the following:

1. Five-day STEM Boot Camp Academy June 19-23. Meeting time will be 11 a.m. EST to 4 p.m. EST.

2. Five, one-hour, evening sessions across the 2023-24 school year with one in September, November, January, March, and May.

3. Some time working independently on teaching your developed unit and reflecting on it (estimated at 10 hours).

4. Attending and presenting your work at our culminating event - STEM Boot Camp Showcase - in June 2024 (5 hour event). 

Participants will receive a copy of one of the STEM Road Map curriculum books - see info here on NSTA website:
https://www.nsta.org/book-series/stem-road-map-curriculum

School-year, evening sessions include both east and west coast options with start times of 4:30 p.m. EST and 7:30 p.m. EST.

• Teachers in the STEM Boot Camp Academy will learn how to enable high school students to work toward mastery of the important 21st Century Skills. Cognitive, intrapersonal, and interpersonal skills and abilities to successfully function as citizens, workers, and leaders in the 21st Century workforce are critical. 
• Teachers in the STEM Boot Camp Academy will learn how to use problem and project-based pedagogy. Problem-based learning is grounded in a scenario, challenge, or problem. 
• Teachers in the STEM Boot Camp Academy program will learn how to increase family and community Engagement.
• Teachers will be provided support to develop their own integrated STEM, problem-based learning unit aligned with their state/local standards and grounded in a real-world problem or local challenge. 
• Teachers will join a network of over 200 other teachers virtually across the country who are members of the STEM Boot Camp Academy program and will receive free curriculum and workshop materials.
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Culminating Event - STEM Boot Camp Academy participating teachers will showcase their work in the STEM Boot Camp Academy Summer Session Showcase in June 2024, a two-part virtual conference where teachers will share posters/presentations of their developed curriculum and artifacts from using this with their students. All teachers who complete the STEM Boot Camp Professional Development program will receive a certificate of completion. Developed curricula from STEM Boot Camp Participants will be made available to all participants through an online gallery.

Participants will select to attend on these dates either the early session (4:30-5:30 EST) or the late session (7:30 to 8:30 EST)

September 28

November 30

January 25

March 28

May 16

Use this link to sign up for our upcoming cohort in summer 2023!