Educational Information

An admirable education outreach program in the Ohio Field Office is being accomplished through The Power of Partnership with schools near each project office. Goals of the program are:

• to increase science proficiency skills and scores
• to enable students to become science-literate citizens, and be better prepared to participate in positions of leadership within the community
• to guide students to understand and engage in scientific inquiry and develop positive attitudes toward science
• to create programs that extend the capacity of educators for instructional leadership excellence
• to develop science, math and technology programs that assure high academic achievement and prepare students for higher education and employment of choice

Background

• Through the DOE Initiative on Community Service there will be an increased focus on education/community service which is an outgrowth of the President’s Summit for America’s Future (April 1997)
• By placing an emphasis on the nation’s youth we hope to raise our standards of achievement, testing and teaching.
• The Ohio Field Office plan will ensure that youngsters are provided with the tools to meet the challenges of the 21^st century.

Approach

• establish education partnerships
• sponsor programs that cover students in a nearby geographic area
• focus on teacher and student programs for improving science, mathematics, engineering and technology education
• include programs that reach historically under represented groups in the science and math fields

Ongoing Activities

• Speakers bureaus
• Tutors
• Curriculum
• Science Bowl
• Partnership in Education
• Science Fair Judging
• Invention Convention
• Technology Assistance
• Shadowing (for teachers & students)
• Academic Scholarships
• Teacher inservices

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The Ohio Field Office Adopt A School Program centers around a selected school near a project office. DOE and contractor personnel assist with partnering, hosting science fairs, speakers bureaus, etc. Keeping the goals in mind, the project offices will work with the specific schools to determine individual needs and how to achieve them.