Appendix A
Convocation Agenda
Monday, May 11 |
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6:00 PM |
Registration and Opening Reception |
7:00 |
Welcoming remarks and overview of the convocation |
7:30 |
Keynote Address and Discussion: Think Different: Allowing STEM Precociousness To Bloom |
Tuesday, May 12 |
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7:30 AM |
Registration continues and Full Breakfast |
8:30 |
Contrasts in Current Models, Set #1: Brief Overview of 6 of 12 Programs |
Community Colleges Undergraduate Research Initiative: James Hewlett, Finger Lakes Community College Dynamic Genome Program: James Burnette, University of California, Riverside |
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9:00 |
Move to First Breakout Sessions |
9:15 |
Breakout Sessions I: |
10:15 |
Break and Networking |
10:45 |
Showcase of Current Models, Set #2: Brief Overview of 6 of 12 Programs |
11:15 |
Move to Second Breakout Sessions: |
11:30 |
Breakout Sessions II: |
12:30 |
Buffet Lunch and Small Groups |
1:45 |
Bringing Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum: Evidence of Best Practices and On-going Challenges—What Do We Know, What Remains to be Known, and What’s Next? |
3:00 |
Break and Networking |
3:15 |
How can we be cost-effective? Infrastructural Opportunities and Challenges to Making Discovery-Based Research Available to Larger Numbers of Students Sean Decatur, Presiding (Kenyon College, Committee Member) Presenters/Panelists: |
4:30 |
Challenge questions: small group work (1 hr.) and reporting (30 min.) |
6:00 |
3-2-1 Exercise |
6:15 |
Dinner and Networking |
Wednesday, May 13 |
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7:30 |
Full Breakfast |
8:15 |
Results from 3-2-1 Exercise and Challenge Questions |
8:45 |
What are the Rewards and Challenges in Scaling Up? Gabriela Weaver, Presiding (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Committee Member) |
- Don Wink, University of Illinois, Chicago: Center for Authentic Science Practice in Education (CASPiE) |
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10:00 |
Break and Networking |
10:15 |
Panel discussion: |
11:30 |
The SLAM: All participants who wish to do so may make up to a 2 minute statement about what they have observed and learned. This session will serve to stimulate commentary after lunch from a panel of invited undergraduate students, members of the organizing committee, and participants. |
12:45 |
Buffet Lunch and Brainstorming via working groups: |
1:45 |
Lessons Learned, Gaps Remaining |
2:45 |
Next Steps |
3:00 |
Convocation Adjourns |