The Roxborough High School in Philadelphia was recently selected as one of the hosts for this year's Educate to Innovate summer program set up by the Obama administration, reported Montgomery Media. The school will manage the program's NASA Summer of Innovation Camp in early August, the funding for which is provided for by a federal grant.
Aside from continuing student education beyond the normal academic year, the Summer of Innovation Camp is also designed to get children interested in science, technology, engineering and math, stated the news source. Erika McFadden, a 10th grade science teacher at Roxborough High School, was reportedly eager to start the NASA-sponsored summer initiative.
"The science department at RHS is so excited to be able to offer this unique opportunity to local students," McFadden said.
McFadden and others may consider deploying educational technology when teaching program participants about STEM concepts. Furthermore, devices such as an e-reader, a graphing calculator and a
DLP projector may be particularly useful to their efforts.
Teachers hope the Educate to Innovate initiative will help students become more confident when tasked with science and math school work.
"Students across the country tend to be unaware of or intimidated by math and science, but the Summer of Innovation Program is designed for students to have fun learning making their own discoveries in Earth and space science," McFadden told the media outlet.
