Education
OSSM sponsors research program
Twelve students from the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics spent a portion of their summer at the Oklahoma Health Center, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and Tinker Air Force Base conducting intensive research and participating in hands-on projects with scientific mentors during the Investigative Research Scholars Program, which concluded on Friday.
Local OSSM students who were accepted into the IRSP program include Jasmine Htoon, Zach Stanley, Andrew Stewart and Matthew Stewart, all of Edmond.
IRSP was started in 2005 by the Kerr Foundation and Lou Kerr, a board member of the OSSM Foundation. Kerr spearheaded the program and secured funding for the students’ research.
The program has become an extension of the OSSM Mentorship Program, which is designed to give seniors the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with scientists, physicists, biologists, doctors, researchers and this year, aeronautical engineers, as well as establish professional relationships with mentors.
The students attend lectures featuring a variety of subjects and speakers and take part in discussions about ethical and cultural issues.
Dr. Brent Richards, a biology professor at OSSM and also a graduate of the school, coordinates matching students with mentors in their areas of interest. IRSP participants are selected by the OSSM faculty.
For more information, visit the school’s Web site, www.ossm.edu.
IRSP speakers include Teresa Weber, president of Dracon Energy; Brandy Reese, senior criminalist with the OSBI Forensic Science Center and a graduate of OSSM; Hemanth Parasuram, managing director of Virgo Capital and also an OSSM graduate; Frieda Deskin, CEO and founder of Advanced Science and Technology Education Center; Art and Sandy Cotton, vice president of University Advancement and Director of Development respectively, Oklahoma City University; Reta Strubhar, a retired judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals; John Armitage, president and chief executive officer of the Oklahoma Blood Institute and a graduate of the North Carolina School of Science and Math; Ben Robinson, retired Boeing executive now working with OSSM and the Oklahoma Aerospace Institute, and Ken Miller, a professor at the Oklahoma State University Medical School Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology in Tulsa.
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Summit puts finishing touches on new construction
Summit Middle School students settled into their new surroundings the first day of school in the fall, and this week finishing touches are being added to the Fine Arts classrooms of the new wing.
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Schools set makeup dates for snow days
Edmond Public Schools will make up the two additional snow days taken this week by eliminating a teacher in-service day scheduled for Feb. 15, and tacking on one extra day to the end of the school year.
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School nutrition pilot program to expand
The scorecard is in and Edmond Public Schools Child Nutrition pilot program earned high marks.
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Edmond joins ‘Race to the Top’
The Edmond Public School District is joining other districts across the state in pursuing a Race to the Top federal discretionary grant.
The U.S. Department of Education’s voluntary grant competition between the states is designed to foster education, innovation and reform that will lead to dramatic gains in student achievement. Nationally there is $4.5 billion available for this program, according to the National Council on Teacher Quality 2009 State Teacher Policy Yearbook. -
UCO Educators’ Leadership Academy set to begin
The University of Central Oklahoma-based Educators’ Leadership Academy is accepting applications for it’s 2010-11 academies designed for education professionals in Oklahoma.
ELA customizes each academy for the specialized needs of education professionals, and currently offers a Combination Academy for K-12, CareerTech and Higher Education Administrators, a Professors Academy, a Principals Academy, a Teachers Academy and a Higher Education Department Chair Academy. -
1-30 Calendar: Edmond schools
Memorial High School
Sunday
5-8 p.m.: Baseball Banquet, commons/cafe
Monday
8-9 a.m.: National FCCLA Week, Rooms 225 & 227
9:30-10 a.m.: Freshman Winter Sports Assembly, gym
9:40-10:10 a.m.: Key Club meeting, Room 283 -
1-30 Education: in brief
OSSM recognizes students of the month
Several students from Edmond made the Oklahoma School of Science and Math’s Students of the Month list in recent months.
Junior Grant Schleifer was recognized in October.
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North basketball clinic to benefit BALTO Week
Seventeen years ago, the Edmond North High School Student Council Leadership Class wanted to begin a charity week.
Swine Week at Edmond Memorial High School was already established, and some would argue that North copied their tradition, but the students began BALTO week, a week all their own.
“The name ‘BALTO Week’ is an acronym quite fitting to our school,” said North student Callie Heerwagen. - More Education Headlines
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