Physical Scientists in K-14 Math and Science Education

该奖项部分支持圣达菲科学联盟（SFAFS），该组织利用新墨西哥州（所有州中人均第三）的大量STEM专业人员来帮助改善圣达菲地区的K-14数学和科学教育，并提高数学和科学的形象。 SFAFS志愿者创建了一个项目，为圣达菲的大量学生、家长和教师带来了丰富的数学和科学内容。在2013-14年度，这些活动涉及超过5，000次学生互动，使用了超过4，300个志愿者小时。该项目将巩固已经取得的非常可观的成果，并增加改进，使该计划更加强大。这项工作的研究问题包括：（1）如何利用STEM专业人员的资源，使有效的变化发生;（2）如何将这群训练有素的数学和科学专家塑造成一个有效的教学实体;（3）如何将这群受过良好训练的数学和科学专家塑造成一个有效的教学实体;（4）如何将这群受过良好训练的数学和科学专家塑造成一个有效的教学实体;（5）如何将这群受过良好训练的数学和科学专家塑造成一个有效的教学实体。（3）如何修改或重塑现有的教育模式，以利用这一人才库;（4）这些具有特殊技能的个人如何帮助学生和公众对数学和科学的美丽、力量和价值产生更大的兴趣，并将这些想法带到社区的各个阶层;（5）如何最有效地处理必然会出现的社会和政治问题。

This award partially supports the Santa Fe Alliance For Science (SFAFS), an organization that utilizes the very large population of STEM professionals in New Mexico (third per capita among all states) to help improve K-14 math and science education in the Santa Fe area, and to raise the profile of math and science. SFAFS volunteers have created a program that brings greatly enriched math and science content to a large number of students, parents and teachers in Santa Fe. In 2013-14, these activities, involving over 5,000 student interactions, utilized over 4,300 volunteer hours. This project will solidify the very substantial gains that have been made and to add improvements that will make the program even stronger.The research questions underlying this work include (1) How this resource of STEM professionals can be utilized to make effective change happen; (2) How this group of highly-trained math and science experts can be molded into an effective pedagogical entity; (3) How existing educational modalities can be modified, or reshaped, to take advantage of this talent pool; (4) How these specially skilled individuals can help create greater student and public interest in the beauty, power and value of math and science, and bring these ideas to all segments of the community; and (5) How the social and political issues that will certainly arise can be dealt with most effectively.