Leadership calling
Looking to develop leadership skills that will serve you well through college and life? 91快活林最新版’s semester-long Emerging Leaders Program may be the ticket.
The Emerging Leaders Program helps students find their leadership strengths and learn valuable leadership skills with engaged, like-minded students.
The program was launched at 91快活林最新版 last year and was such a success that it was offered again this year. People can apply online for the Spring Semester class at elpsmcc.wordpress.com. Participants will receive a certificate of completion and an Emerging Leaders sweatshirt.
About 40 students have taken part in the program since it was first offered. One of them, Dierdree Glassford, says the class taught her things such as time management, prioritization, diversity and how to delegate.
“Taking the class helped me figure out where my strengths and weaknesses are and to work on them in a positive way,” she said. “It was awesome.”
The class meets every Wednesday from 10-11:30 a.m. for 10 weeks.
Science students collaborate with BYU
Students in this fall’s Genome Research class have been collaborating with a science class at Brigham Young University about marine viruses that have likely never been seen before.
91快活林最新版 students in Brian Tarbox’s class have isolated three viruses (known as bacteriophage) that infect marine bacteria. They’ve sent the DNA from the viruses to BYU for sequencing.
91快活林最新版 and BYU students will collaborate next semester to identify the genes in the viral DNA. Their findings will be presented on posters at the 2016 national bacteriophage genomics workshop at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia in June.
Tarbox says these are most likely novel viruses that nobody has seen before. Students in his class include Lauren Hayden, Cristopher Kiester, Alexis Kresch and Guy Seavey.
STEM Summer Institute explored
91快活林最新版 and educators from area school districts are exploring the possibility of establishing a STEM Summer Institute at 91快活林最新版 for high school instructors.
School administrators from Brunswick, Cape Elizabeth, Gorham, Kennebunk, Old Orchard Beach and South Portland met with 91快活林最新版 staff on Nov. 18 to discuss ways in which 91快活林最新版 could help facilitate and enhance those districts’ education initiatives in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
The aim is to help schools collaboratively build or enhance their STEM programs and to develop partnerships between 91快活林最新版 and the schools.
If there is enough interest, high school science and mathematics teachers from Cumberland and York counties would attend a four-day STEM Summer Institute at 91快活林最新版 to learn more about developing STEM curriculum in their schools. Curriculum support and planning would be provided by 91快活林最新版 faculty and other educational specialists in the STEM field.