TY - JOUR
T1 - NetSci high
T2 - Bringing network science research to high schools
AU - Cramer, Catherine
AU - Sheetz, Lori
AU - Sayama, Hiroki
AU - Trunfio, Paul
AU - Eugene Stanley, H.
AU - Uzzo, Stephen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - We present NetSci High, our NSF-funded educational outreach program that connects high school students who are underrepresented in STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics), and their teachers, with regional university research labs and provides them with the opportunity to work with researchers and graduate students on team-based, year-long network science research projects, culminating in a formal presentation at a network science conference. This short paper reports the content and materials that we have developed to date, including lesson plans and tools for introducing high school students and teachers to network science; empirical evaluation data on the effect of participation on students’ motivation and interest in pursuing STEM careers; the application of professional development materials for teachers that are intended to encourage them to use network science concepts in their lesson plans and curriculum; promoting district-level interest and engagement; best practices gained from our experiences; and the future goals for this project and its subsequent outgrowth.
AB - We present NetSci High, our NSF-funded educational outreach program that connects high school students who are underrepresented in STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics), and their teachers, with regional university research labs and provides them with the opportunity to work with researchers and graduate students on team-based, year-long network science research projects, culminating in a formal presentation at a network science conference. This short paper reports the content and materials that we have developed to date, including lesson plans and tools for introducing high school students and teachers to network science; empirical evaluation data on the effect of participation on students’ motivation and interest in pursuing STEM careers; the application of professional development materials for teachers that are intended to encourage them to use network science concepts in their lesson plans and curriculum; promoting district-level interest and engagement; best practices gained from our experiences; and the future goals for this project and its subsequent outgrowth.
KW - Educational outreach
KW - High school student research
KW - NetSci High
KW - Network science and education
KW - Teaching and learning network science
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-16112-9_21
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-16112-9_21
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84925016328
SN - 1860-949X
VL - 597
SP - 209
EP - 218
JO - Studies in Computational Intelligence
JF - Studies in Computational Intelligence
ER -