Art Pallone, second from right, assistant teaching professor of physics, has worked to organize annual workshops for high school teachers through his role as vice president of the Central Pennsylvania chapter of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT). He has worked with Alice Flarend, a science teacher and Physics Teaching Resource Agent through the AAPT, to host the events on the Penn State Harrisburg campus three times – virtually in 2020, and in person in 2022 and 2023.
The Aspire 2 Teach Conference at Penn State Harrisburg drew 100 high school students to learn about STEM-CS fields and encourage them to consider teaching as a career path.
Penn State Harrisburg's IEEE student organization holds STEM programs for teens and younger children at the Middletown library. The college students who run the program focus on finding hands-on activities to engage the younger students.
Penn State Harrisburg student Jeremiah Ddumba, president of the college chapter of IEEE (Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers), helps a student with a soldering activity at the Middletown Public Library during a meeting of the Teen STEM program. The IEEE runs two STEM programs at the library, one for teens and one for younger children, which together reach around 30 students a month.
High school students participated in STEM-CS activities during the Aspire 2 Teach Conference at Penn State Harrisburg. The conference, funded by the Aspire 2 Education grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Education, aimed to ignite students’ interest in STEM-CS (computer science) fields and encourage students to consider teaching in a STEM-CS discipline as a career path – while providing a great experience at the college.
More than 100 high school students descended on the Penn State Harrisburg campus for the Aspire 2 TEACH conference. Among many STEM activities, they used math to figure out whether Double Stuf Oreos are truly double stuffed.
In the fall of 2023, more than 100 high school students descended on the Penn State Harrisburg campus for the Aspire 2 TEACH conference. They used math to figure out whether Double Stuf Oreos are truly double stuffed, constructed DNA necklaces and built blinker circuits, among other activities.