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Lending Library in Gentilly puts Science Equipment in Teachers’ Hands
The New Orleans Advocate, 08/09/2019, by Celeste Turner, photo by Chris Granger - Much the same way that a card-carrying member can walk into a public library and come out with a book, teachers can walk into the STEM Library Lab in Gentilly and borrow everything from...
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STEM Library Lab-Young Bloods
St. Charles Magazine, 01/31/2020, by Lindsay Mack, Photos by Cheryl Gerber While working as a science teacher in New Orleans, Todd Wackerman faced a common dilemma: lab materials are often outside the school’s budget. To help other educators facing a similar issue,...
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Stocking the Shelves
Biz New Orleans, 03/01/2019, by Ashley McLellan - Careers in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math) have been lauded for years as the path to the best jobs with the best pay, but when New Orleans math and science teacher Todd Wackerman tried to...
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Tulane Business Model Competition names semifinalists for $25,000 top prize
Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business has named the six student teams that will face off in the qualifying round of the 2018 Tulane Business Model Competition…
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Learning to Pilot, Building a Real STEM Lending Library
If you’re wondering what happened, we changed our name. The Science Teachers’ Equipment Lending Library, while descriptive, was a bit verbose, and also factually inaccurate as we will service all STEM educators. We are now STEM Library Lab!
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Data Driven Road Tripping to STEM Education Centers
On August 12th I set out on a 3,000 mile journey across the middle of the U.S. The purpose was to visit and learn about operations, logistics, marketing, outreach, and reporting, across a variety of K-12 STEM libraries across the country.
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Networking with the STEM Education Centers
I originally discovered the NSEC while completing an assignment for the Changemaker Institute, which directed me to seek out organizations nationally doing similar work to STELL. I found, among others, SwI STEM in Indiana, who advised me to attend. And I am thankful that I listened.
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Generating Interest Among Stakeholders in K-12 Education
When we left off, STEM Library Lab was preparing to write a Memorandum of Understanding, a nonbinding document to help validate customers and demonstrate that interest exists for our service offerings.
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Getting Focused with Charter School Leaders for STEM Education
The Science Teachers’ Equipment Lending Library (STELL) began with a good idea. From 6 years teaching STEM subjects in high schools, I realized that one of the biggest challenges to improving teaching and learning might also be one of the easiest to solve.
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STEM Library Lab – Propeller
Helping Teachers to Help Students: STEM Library Lab provides a resource share facility for science equipment and planning resources for teachers to enable inquiry-based hands-on learning and improve STEM outcomes throughout New Orleans classrooms.
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Milken-Penn GSE Idea Fest Finalists
STEM Library Lab is a professional center for educators with the intended goal of closing the STEM opportunity gap in New Orleans public schools by increasing access to physical equipment, training, and lesson planning resources for teachers.
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Nonprofit Spotlight: STEM Library Lab
It makes a huge difference for a student to actually be able to dissect a frog or model a scenario with magnets and iron filings, as opposed to just being lectured about magnetic fields, or viewing a powerpoint about body systems.
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Welcome Tiny Wave 3
If you’re reading this, Wave 3 of the Tiny Fellowship is on their way in. Out of over 200 applications and 50 interviews, we’ve selected 34 outstanding teams to join the Fellowship and pilot their ideas for the future of school…
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