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This summer promises to be filled with adventure, learning, and fun for students of all interests and ages. Whether they're passionate about STEM, skill trades, the arts, or outdoor exploration, there's something for everyone!

Registration opens May 1, 2024!

Please share these opportunities with your students, families, neighbors and friends.! Your support in spreading the word will ensure that every student has the chance to participate in these enriching experiences.

Welcome to the NE MI Teacher Externship Program, an integral part of the MiSTEM Network's ongoing efforts to enhance STEM education across Michigan.

At the heart of our mission is the desire to bridge the gap between classroom learning and real-world applications by connecting teachers with careers, essential skills, community partners, and training providers. By immersing educators in paid externships within STEM fields, our aim is to provide them with firsthand experiences that will empower them to inspire the next generation of innovators.

During our summer camp experiences, educators will immerse themselves alongside students, adopting the perspective of a learner with educator insight. Engaging fully in all activities and skills, they'll also serve as vigilant overseers for student safety. Through these paid externship opportunities, teachers will glean firsthand understanding of the skills, hurdles, and potential paths in diverse STEM fields. Our aim is for educators to re-enter classrooms invigorated and equipped to infuse their teaching with newfound knowledge and enthusiasm, igniting inspiration in their students.

Externships also serve as a powerful form of professional development, enabling teachers to cultivate lasting partnerships with local businesses and community organizations. By engaging directly with industry-based practices, educators will be better equipped to integrate relevant and meaningful examples into their curriculum, enriching the learning experience for their students.

As part of the Teacher Externship Program, we strive to achieve several key objectives:

• Foster enduring partnerships between businesses, community partners, and local schools.
• Align the Teacher Extern experience with STEM content and Michigan's 21st-century skills.
• Provide students with authentic insights into potential careers available in Northeast Michigan.
• Empower teachers with real-world applications to enhance classroom instruction.
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Explore over 36 externship opportunities throughout the summer spanning various lengths of time, locations and topics. Topics range from underwater robotics and water resources careers to robotics, exploring electricity, welding, CNC machining, and more. Delve into the Building & Construction Trades Union Academy, Health Careers, Forest School, Computer Graphics & Design, Public Safety careers, Automotive industry, drones, and bridge building. These opportunities are available in communities such as Onaway, Cheboygan, Gaylord, Grayling, Roscommon, and West Branch.

Participating teachers in the Teacher Externship program will receive a stipend of $150 per day. Additionally, SCECHs will be available for participants. It is essential to note that active engagement in reflection and feedback on the externship experience is a requirement for all participants.

Registration opens April 22, 2024

Here is a 12-minute video that the Math Collaborative has put together that explains the offerings we have for this summer.

The pre-conference is designed to engage Michigan math educators in experiential project, problem, and place-based learning (3P). This might include traveling to a location near the conference, getting outside, or staying within the conference building to experience a project on-site. Half-day and Full-day sessions offered.

The 3P approach to learning integrates key principles including design thinking, learner centered, sustained inquiry, Collaborative, Connected to Community, Fosters Reflection, Connected to Curriculum, and Authenticity.

July 16, 2024

See this link for information about the MCTM Annual Conference, and to register.

Registration for Pre-conference coming soon!

2024 Winter/Spring Science Workshop Catalog -- Catalog

The MiSTEM Network is providing 40 scholarships state-wide for an engaging two-day workshop facilitated by Communications By Design, focused on Project-Based Learning (PBL) in educational settings. This course consists of two days of face to face learning sessions and three virtual follow-up sessions.

Applications will be given priority according to the following:

• Teams that include ISD/CTE/District Staff/MiSTEM Region Director, and other regional leaders (out of school time, higher ed, etc.) that will be part of your 3P team to support ongoing regional work.
• Those with experience as a teacher teaching PBL as you will be asked to draw on personal experience.
• Geographical diversity across the state.

June 26 - 27, 2024 (face-to-face)

60 min

Follow up sessions on:

October 9, 2024

December 4, 2024

February 5, 2025

See this link for more information and to apply.

In support of K-5 science teaching and learning, a leadership team of representatives from the Michigan Science Education Leadership Association (MSELA) and Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association (MEMSPA), in partnership with the CREATE for STEM Institute at Michigan State University (MSU), will bring together state and national science leaders to the campus of MSU on May 29, 2024 to discuss a shared research-based vision for teaching and learning of science in the elementary grades. We hope this will result in recommendations and next steps for achieving this vision so that all children in the state of Michigan can experience the joy of learning science. Educational leadership teams will be invited to attend the event including ISD and district curriculum directors, instructional coaches, principals, teacher leaders, and other local district leadership. This is a no-cost event.

Registration

Note: the Science and Engineering Action Area Consortium will be spending May 29th with the CREATE for STEM Institute in East Lansing, followed by a Consortium workday on May 30, 2025. If you are a Science and Engineering Action Area Consortium Member, please Register for this event as soon as possible, as space is limited. Hotel and details to follow.

Vernal Pools Workshop for Educators Registration

Please complete the following to register for the in-person Vernal Pools Workshop on May 3, 2024 from 10am-2pm ET at Herman Vogler Conservation Area, Rogers City, MI.

Deadline to register: Monday, April 29, 2024

DON'T MISS THIS VERNAL POOLS TRAINING HAPPENING IN A MONTH! Northeast Michigan Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative partners, Michigan Natural Features Inventory (MNFI) and the Presque Isle Conservation District, are collaborating for a vernal pool educator training event. Please register if you plan to or are interested in monitoring vernal pools. Space is limited to 30 people to minimize impact on the pool monitored during the training.

Before attending the training please watch the recordings of a Vernal Pool Patrol Virtual Training Series (Trainings & Events | Vernal Pool Patrol (arcgis.com)). In addition, educators and partners should be registered with an MNFI Community account to gain access to the Vernal Pool Field Survey (Survey123 app) to submit data. Please visit the Vernal Pool Patrol Hub site for more information.

During this field training at Herman Vogler Conservation Area in Rogers City, educators and partners will gain experience completing the monitoring protocol (e.g., practice taking pool measurements, collect pool samples and ID invertebrates using a microscope, walkthrough the Survey123 app and data sheets) to ensure data is collected accurately. This time can also be used to connect and meet with other educators and partners and support in your area.

Be prepared for all weather conditions! *Please bring water and a lunch. Rain gear, warm layers, and waterproof footwear (knee high boots) are highly recommended. All necessary monitoring supplies will be provided, but feel free to bring your own as well.

It is never too early to get the Summer Institute date on your calendar! This year's focus and theme will be geared around "Using Your School Campus as a Classroom" and will take place in Alcona County.

We have started an event through our NEMIGLSI Facebook page so please click going or interested to help us gauge and plan!

Want to connect your students with hands-on learning opportunities that support stewardship and address standards? Join this Great Lakes & place-based education focused professional learning opportunity: the Lake Huron Place-Based Stewardship Education Teacher Summer Institute. In addition to place-based education, a big focus of this year's Institute will be using your school's campus as a classroom.

The Lake Huron Place-Based Stewardship Education Summer Institute is designed to enhance educator understanding of the Great Lakes and place-based stewardship education through:

• Making connections to the Great Lakes through Great Lakes Literacy, stewardship, and hands-on learning experiences

• Developing a robust place-based stewardship education project

• Identifying local community needs and strengthening school and community partnerships

• Exploring school-campus focused lessons and opportunities

When: 1:00 pm, July 15, 2024 through 3:00 pm, July 17, 2024

Where: Lincoln, MI, lodging provided at Lost Lake Woods Club

Cost: FREE

Educator Support: Participants receive a $500 stipend to support youth engagement in 2024-25 school year

Funding for this institute and project stipends are provided by the Center for Great Lakes Literacy, the Northeast Michigan MiSTEM Network, and the Northeast Michigan Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative.

WE ARE RECRUITING TEACHER TEAMS FOR OUR SECOND COHORT OF MARINE DEBRIS STEWARDS. Over the next two years, you will receive support and coaching from NEMIGLSI, targeted professional learning around marine debris prevention, and a $1500 stipend for your place-based stewardship education project.

The goal of this effort is to provide you will with tools and resources to make a marine debris prevention/investigation project happen in your watershed, connecting our valued watersheds and hands-in-the-dirt and feet-in-the-water experiences. Your projects will engage students in marine debris prevention studies and stewardship action projects in and with their local communities. While your projects vary, the goal that aligns them is marine debris prevention in the Great Lakes.

We are looking for 2-3 teacher teams to join us. Apply by Earth Day (April 22) by completing this project application (clicking the link will make a copy of the document for you to complete).

Applications are now open for Inland Seas Education Association's 2024 Great Lakes Watershed Field Course!

The GLWFC is a 4-day free professional development experience for teachers from throughout the Great Lakes region and runs from August 6-9, 2024 in Suttons Bay, MI on the beautiful shores of Lake Michigan. Training in the course includes watershed and environmental concepts, place-based education and environmental education pedagogy, and time for curriculum development. Educators will learn how to engage students in local environmental issues, investigate solutions, devise a plan, and take action during this course. Inland Seas supports teachers throughout the school year with additional training, online forums, and other forms of assistance to help teachers implement their watershed-based stewardship action projects.

There is no cost for this experience, but space is limited to 30 participants. Interested educators can learn more and apply at schoolship.org/glwfc. The deadline for applications is April 21, 2024 by 5:00 p.m. EST.

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Applications Are Now Available - Apply Today!

Applications are now available on the Code.org website. All participants must complete the application process in order to attend. Participants will automatically be considered for a scholarship (valued at $2,500) as part of the application process. This workshop has limited seats, apply today!

Code.org Application Page

SCRIPT

The SCRIPT workshop (Strategic CSforALL Resource & Implementation Planning Tool) is a K-12 CS visioning process available for all districts across Michigan.

Computers Science AA has funds ready to support teacher stipends, lunch, etc. Contact me for additional information.

Nature Awaits: Michigan's fourth grade state park field trip

Calling all fourth grade classrooms!

Nature Awaits offers a new opportunity for children to experience Michigan's outdoors. All fourth grade classrooms are eligible for a FREE experiential field trip to select state parks to support their classroom learning!

Each environmental education experience will be facilitated by trained educators focused on meeting 4th grade curriculum standards including science, social studies, physical fitness and language arts through experiential learning outdoors.

Guided by environmental literacy best practices, the program aims to make sure Michigan’s kids learn that our state parks are for everyone, and that a lifetime of spending time outdoors is good for our physical and mental health.

NOAA Planet Stewards is now accepting proposals of up to $5,000 from formal and informal educators to carry out hands-on stewardship projects with elementary through college age students, as well as the general public. Projects must make a substantive, and quantitatively measurable impact on an environmental issue related to the educator’s community. Projects should focus on the conservation, restoration, and/or protection of human communities and/or natural resources in the following environmental areas: mitigation or removal of marine debris; habitat conservation and restoration; carbon footprint reduction; or carbon sequestration.

MACUL members are eligible to apply for our grants program and can get up to $1,000 for their classrooms.

Local Community Foundations offer many grant opportunities for teachers and schools.

Please enjoy this April Edition of the Instructional Technology Newsletter from REMC 3.

This edition includes:

• Summer Learning-3 great book study options (The AI Classroom, The Educator's Atlas, & The Behavior Code)
• Cyber Security Glossary
• Chromebook Prank Guide
• Earth Day Virtual Room
• Learning Opportunities (Including a Desmos workshop)

Please enjoy the April 2024 edition.

When: April 19th, 2024

Where: Kirtland Grayling Campus

For more information contact Cesalee Kuffel @ cesalee.kuffel@kirtland.edu

The 2024 event will be on May 16 at the Ellison Place in Gaylord

This year we will be offering 2 sessions, allowing students additional time in each quadrant compared to prior years. We are inviting 8th-12th grades and have over 1200 students registered so far.

If you, or a company you know of, would like to be an exhibitor at the event, please complete this Exhibitor Registration Form. If you aren't sure what kind of exhibit to offer, please reach out to me for some ideas (I've attended quite a few MCQ events across the state so I may have some ideas) https://forms.gle/kBvkQTFVR7fkWdLV6

If you'd like to volunteer and help out at the event, please complete this Volunteer Registration Form https://forms.gle/BjxyZtN1nwH8mfHg7

If you cannot volunteer, but would still like to check out the event, we will be able to put you on our VIP list and you can stop by for a short tour during the event.

As a volunteer or VIP visitor, please remember that engaging with students is the exhibitor/employer/s primary focus at the event, so there won't be much opportunity for networking with volunteers/visitors. Students don't have much time in each quadrant and we want them to engage and interact with exhibitors as much as possible. Please refrain from engaging in long conversations with exhibitors during the sessions. Thank you for understanding!

For more information contact:

Alicia Wallace
Marketing & Communications Manager

Michigan Works! Northeast Consortium

20709 State, Box 711 | Onaway, MI 49765
p 989.733.8548 x2323 | f 989.733.8069

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• ARTS AND COMMUNICATIONS Careers related to the humanities and to the performing, visual, literary and media arts.
• BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT, MARKETING, AND TECHNOLOGY Careers related to all aspects of business including accounting, business administration, finance, information processing, and marketing.
• ENGINEERING/MANUFACTURING AND INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY Careers related to the technologies necessary to design, develop, install, or maintain physical systems.
• HEALTH SCIENCES Careers related to the promotion of health as well as the treatment of injuries, conditions, and disease.
• HUMAN SERVICES Careers in early childhood, civil service, education, hospitality, and the social services.
• NATURAL RESOURCES AND AGRISCIENCE Careers related to natural resources, agriculture, and the environment.