Houston, We Have a Problem

I am at the #100kin10 conference at Johnson Space Center; a convergence of industry, government, non profit, and higher education professionals. Ten percent of the attendees are hand selected classroom teachers and this is the first time teachers are attending.
The "moonshot goal" is to produce 100k highly trained STEM teachers in 10 years.
We spent the day digging around the root causes that are standing in the way of effective STEM integration. I came here hoping for solutions and wound up standing in the gaping maw of this beastly dilemma. It is always darkest before the dawn, right?

At least I got to meet astronaut Nancy Currie and stand in the space shuttle.

 100kin10.org 

Woke up in El Paso

On my way to the 100kin10 symposium to work on the grand challenges facing education. How best to integrate STEM across all curricula and provide meaningful STEM training for all teachers is indeed a grand challenge. The conference is in Houston, at NASA, but I am not there. I fell asleep on the flight, which unbeknownst to me had a stopover in El Paso.  https://100kin10.org 

Leadership and Cheezy Poofs

On March 30th CREST Biotech HOSA embarked on a 3 day road trip to Tucson to attend the 11th annual Spring Leadership Conference. It was a whirlwind adventure of campaigning, competing, and junk food consumption.

 
 As always, our students practiced PV PRIDE and made me incredibly proud. Not only does our chapter boast the first Arizona, Female, International President elect, we now also have three state board members on a panel of seven; President, Region II VP, and Parliamentarian.

In addition our students brought home a pile of prizes! Thank you to all of our members for supporting HOSA and each other to make this a successful conference.

Biotechnology	Gold	Ramya
	Silver	Noah
	Bronze	Brandon
	4th	Prati
Biomedical Debate	Bronze	Elizabeth
		Dylan
		Brianne
		Ben
State Officer	President	Kyle
	VP Region II	Elizabeth
	Parliamentarian	Gregory
Platinum Membership		Kyle & Elizabeth
Extemporaneous Health Poster	Bronze	Josie
Extemporaneous Writing	Gold	Ryan
Public Health	Gold	Kyle & Morgan
PSA	Silver	Rishika Genevieve Jessica
Prepared Speech	4th	Britanny
	5th	Ameer
Health Care Issues	ILC qualifier	Rene
HOSA Happenings	Gold	Chapter scrapbook
Gold Membership		Rene Brittany Frederick Gregory  Josie
Silver Membership		Connor Morgan  Ryan
Bronze Membership		Ameer  Dara   Devyash David  Esha Genevieve  Joseph Puglisi Mac   Mariah  Nicholas  Prati   Ramya  Susan
Gold Chapter Award
Barbara James Service Award	Gold 300 hours	Brittany

Medical Spelling  Gold                       Mason