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First-ever QuikSCience Challenge Held on Stevens Campus
Sheeraz Hyder
Issue date: 4/20/07 Section: Campus News
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The First East Coast QuikSCience Challenge was held on the Stevens campus on March 8. The Challenge was sponsored by the QuikSilver Science Foundation, QuikSilver Inc. and the University of Southern California's Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies. The event was open to students from grades six to 12 in the states of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Ms. Liesl Hotaling, Assistant Director in the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE), oversaw the program.
This was the first time there has been a QuikSCience Challenge on the East Coast. The QuikSilver Science Foundation was very impressed with the level of enthusiasm Stevens portrayed and looks forward to working with us on future collaborations. In the High School Division, First Place went to the Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science (MATES). Covent of the Sacred Heart took home second place. Stafford Intermediate School was awarded the Best Lesson Plan and Best Community Service. Lakewood High School garnered an Honorable Mention. In the Middle School Division, first place went to Veterans Memorial Middle School (VMMS) while All Saints Catholic School came in second. First Prize Winners MATES and VMMS will travel to the British Virgin Islands in May on an all-expenses-paid week-long trip to participate in research on marine animals and to teach local students.
The projects in the QuikSCience Challenge included the creation and teaching of a new ocean science lesson plan for other students. Additionally, they created a community service project that is linked to the new lesson plan, a written report/portfolio of the QuikScience project, a proposal for a research project for the high school teams only, and finally a creative presentation which could be in the form of a poster, a video, or a different form of media.
The MATES team consisted of Mr. David Werner and students Sherry Martin, Laura Barry, Stephen Bogan, Alan White, Adam Spina, Maya Jenkins, and Elaina Solly. MATES lesson plan "includes a learning activity that also was taught to the 6th graders at Stafford Intermediate School in Stafford Twp, NJ. The lesson plan's main topic is human impacts on Barnegat Bay [along the coast of Ocean County, New Jersey]." The community service portion involved "teaching a lesson about the human impacts on Barnegat Bay and was taught to 6th graders at Stafford Intermediate School. A web site was created to display project outcomes and to improve community awareness and education." The research proposal looked at the "rate at which riparian zone plants intake nutrients from run off. The data from the project would help develop ways to control the increasing sea nettle population in the bay."
This was the first time there has been a QuikSCience Challenge on the East Coast. The QuikSilver Science Foundation was very impressed with the level of enthusiasm Stevens portrayed and looks forward to working with us on future collaborations. In the High School Division, First Place went to the Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science (MATES). Covent of the Sacred Heart took home second place. Stafford Intermediate School was awarded the Best Lesson Plan and Best Community Service. Lakewood High School garnered an Honorable Mention. In the Middle School Division, first place went to Veterans Memorial Middle School (VMMS) while All Saints Catholic School came in second. First Prize Winners MATES and VMMS will travel to the British Virgin Islands in May on an all-expenses-paid week-long trip to participate in research on marine animals and to teach local students.
The projects in the QuikSCience Challenge included the creation and teaching of a new ocean science lesson plan for other students. Additionally, they created a community service project that is linked to the new lesson plan, a written report/portfolio of the QuikScience project, a proposal for a research project for the high school teams only, and finally a creative presentation which could be in the form of a poster, a video, or a different form of media.
The MATES team consisted of Mr. David Werner and students Sherry Martin, Laura Barry, Stephen Bogan, Alan White, Adam Spina, Maya Jenkins, and Elaina Solly. MATES lesson plan "includes a learning activity that also was taught to the 6th graders at Stafford Intermediate School in Stafford Twp, NJ. The lesson plan's main topic is human impacts on Barnegat Bay [along the coast of Ocean County, New Jersey]." The community service portion involved "teaching a lesson about the human impacts on Barnegat Bay and was taught to 6th graders at Stafford Intermediate School. A web site was created to display project outcomes and to improve community awareness and education." The research proposal looked at the "rate at which riparian zone plants intake nutrients from run off. The data from the project would help develop ways to control the increasing sea nettle population in the bay."
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