Research centers at Discovery Park include engagement to pre-college students as a part of what they do. This listing will provide you with a partial description of those programs and how you may get involved. For more information, listings provide a direct link to individual DP Research Center's webpages.
Generation Nano
This program for students provides a virtual tour of the nanotechnology center while providing insight into the science of very small objects and their interactions.
Howard Hughes Electronic Field Trips in Comparative Biology for Middle School Students
Nationally recognized scientists from agriculture, biology, and veterinary medicine will team with education and instructional design experts and video production personnel to bring science and scientists electronically into the classroom. Electronic Field Trips (EFTs) will be offered through live web streaming, IP videoconferencing, or collaborative web software, or a combination of the three. An on-camera host and featured scientist will interact with classroom participants electronically to bring on-site experiences into the distant classroom as an integrative complement to existing instruction. For more information contact Dr. J. Paul Robinson: jpr@flowcyto.purdue.edu
The Discovery Learning Center hosts many of the programs aimed pre-college students. The following listing should help with navigating the opportunities.
nCLT
A program to enhance the teaching of nanotechnology science. (pdf brochure)
NSF GK-12 Program
A program to enhance teaching at the Middle School level.
A program to enhance teaching at the Middle School level.
Develops K-12 Curriculum/Disaster Software and coordinates teacher training.
Develops energy activities for the classroom.
Purdue Guitar Workshop
Week-long workshop in which students make their own electric guitars.
Thank you for your interest in Discovery Park's P-12 STEM Program. In this location at Purdue biological, physical and engineering research combines to create new discoveries that may both interest and inspire pre-college students, teachers and parents. Through this web page, the P-12 STEM Program intends to make educational resources based on this research more generally available to the public. We welcome your enquiries!
Address
P-12 STEM Programs
Mann Hall
203 S. Martin Jischke Drive
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1971
Christian Foster
Director of P-12 STEM Programs
