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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Forty Penn State graduate students were named recipients of Penn State’s most prestigious annual graduate student recognition awards, administered by the Graduate School in collaboration with several Penn State units.
Penn State Harrisburg’s Office of Research and Outreach will host Research and Discovery Day on Wednesday, April 10. This event intends to showcase current areas of research and scholarly activities at the college.
