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CU Science Discovery’s Immersive Professional Development STEM Experiences are a unique PD model featuring day-long, activity-based programs for teams composed of one teacher and five students. Teachers and students (grades 4-8) work side-by-side, allowing teachers to observe students’ interaction with inquiry and innovation-driven activities grounded in standards-based content. These PD Experiences feature three interconnected modules on a specific science, engineering or pedagogical theme that:

• Combine to provide a full-day of engaging, tactile STEM learning and activities
• Share new, standards-based activities, skills and technologies
• Develop inquiry, innovation, engineering design and/or science process skills
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• Supply program resources, curricula and CDE/NGSS standards correlations
• Provide a certificate documenting 5 hours of professional development

Contact Science Discovery directly for pricing. Grant and scholarship opportunities may be available for some Immersive PD STEM Experiences. Additional travel and logistical fees apply for schools outside the Denver metro area. A general overview of program logistics is below:

Program logistics: 

• Each team must pre-register with the site coordinator.
• Cost per team of 1 teacher/adult chaperone and 5 students is $195. This cost can be adjusted based upon a school’s Federal Free and Reduced Lunch Rate. Contact Scott Sieke for more information.
• Each team must be led by either a teacher or an adult chaperone.
• All participants should arrive at the STEM Experience site by 8:45am with a sack lunch and water bottle.
• Participants can expect to leave between 2:30-3pm.

Current Immersive Professional Development STEM Experience topics include: 

• NEW! Water in the West
• World of Waves

Questions? Please contact Scott Sieke via email.