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Professional Development

2024 Summer & Fall Professional Development Workshops

K-12 teachers will engage in a variety of STEM related team building challenges. Explore the use of group activities to get students to communicate with each other. One of the challenges will include a Breakout Box Game using a variety of tools. You will learn to reset locks and set up your own Breakout Box Game from scratch. Completion of this training is required to borrow CESTEM's Breakout Boxes.

  • Date: Tuesday, September 10
  • Time: 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
  • Location: UNCW CESTEM Makerspace
  • Credit: 0.3 CEUs
  • Instructor: Michelle Hafey
  • Fee: $10.00 [non-refundable after 9/9 @ 8 AM]
  • Register by September 9 @ 8 AM: http://bit.ly/cestem011-25

Teachers will work with other new coaches to build a SeaPerch ROV from start to finish just like they will do with their new teams in grades 6-12. While supplies last, schools new to SeaPerch with a representative that completes the training will receive one ROV kit to build with their new team. (Limit one kit per school.)

  • Date: Friday & Saturday, September 13 & 14
  • Time: F: 5:30 - 8:30 pm & S: 8:30 am - 12:30 pm
  • Location: UNCW CESTEM Makerspace
  • Credit: 1.0 CEUs
  • Instructor: Michelle Hafey
  • Fee: FREE
  • Register by September 12 @ 8 AM: http://bit.ly/cestem012-25

K-8 teachers will consider Astronomy concepts through engaging activities they can recreate with their students in the classroom. Explore night/day, seasons, shadows, and moon phases. View constellations and hear stories about them from all over the world. Learn about and even try out items in CESTEM’s Technology Loan Program that support teaching Astronomy concepts. 

  • Date: Saturday, September 28
  • Time: 9 am - 12 pm
  • Location: UNCW Watson College of Education
  • Credit: 0.3 CEUs
  • Instructors: Pepper Hill (Science Alliance of Eastern NC) & Michelle Hafey
  • Fee: $10.00 [non-refundable after 9/20 @ 8 AM]
  • Register by September 20 @ 8 AM: http://bit.ly/cestem013-25

Is your school or district looking for fun, hands-on STEM lessons to meet the new science standards? Come experience the Center for Inquiry-Based Learning (CIBL) easy-to-use, standards-aligned, Student Activity Packs. Your team will include one administrator and up to 4 other members. Team members can include teachers, curriculum specialists, and any other STEM educators.

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Hours:
Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Summer hours:
Monday-Thursday, 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Friday, 7:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

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