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The New Year's resolution of the GRITS Collaborative is to
make 2009 the most successful year in gaining more young women interest
for careers in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics. Thanks to the tremendous help of the GRITS
Leadership Team, Champions Board, and the many GRITS supporters,
we have been very successful so far. GRITS has performed STEM
workshops for girls in five middle and high schools, as well as
served atleast forty math and science teachers at these
schools. GRITS also hosted the video conference "WISE Use
Green Chemistry" that was broadcast to several middle and high
school across Tennessee. And, we have finally closed the second
round of mini-grants, and will be announcing those programs being
funded soon. We have accomplished all this in the first third of
the year!
Now, it is time for the first GRITS Collaborative forum. This
forum is designed to provide opportunities for face-to-face
collaboration and explore ways to apply research-based strategies and
promising practices in collaboration, informal learning and assessment
/evaluation to local girl-serving STEM programs. This forum
is made possible due to the great collaborations between Eastman
Chemical Company, Northeast TN section of the American Chemical
Society, the GRITS Collaborative, local politicians, Sullivan and
Washington county school board directors, and northeast TN upper
education schools. Please join us on Monday, June 15, 2009 for this wonderful opportunity for collaboration and informal learning! This event will take place at the Eastman Lodge on Bays Mountain in Kingsport, TN.
Please see below for the complete program for this event. |
10:00-11:30 am "It's Your Choice!"
Dr. John Engelman,
ACS Career Consultant |
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One can consult the dictionary for
definitions for words like "job, career, profession, professional and
professionalism". I have also found one list that says what
professionals are and developed one of my own which I call the "seven
life and career makers". While all of these definitions are fine
and correct in their own right they mean little unless one can apply
them to their situation.
We as the applied
chemical professionals own the phrase "observations are us".
Experience has taught me that seeing examples applied to theory are an
excellent tool for applied chemical professionals to learn, at least it
works well for me. While I could choose any of several people's
careers as a means of illustrating my points I will use my career as it
is the one that I know best. Yes I have had a career because I
chose that path. It is your choice, too! |
| 6:30-7:45 pm Dinner |
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If you would like to join the dinner for ACS
president Dr. Tom Lane, please email Mary Moore by June 8th for
more information. Tickets are $25 and must be paid for with
a check.
Please mail check to:
Andy Vetter
NETS-ACS Treasurer
Eastman Chemical Company
P.O. Box 1972
Kingsport, TN 37662 |
| 7:45-8:00
pm Northeast TN Section ACS, Dr. John
Sanders,
NETSACS Counselor |
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Introduction to the Tennessee Government Affairs Committee
(TN-GAC)
ACS
works to advance the chemical enterprise, increase public understanding
of chemistry and science, and to offer its expertise on state and
national matters. In 2008, ACS formed an independent committee of
Tennessee ACS members from across the state to work with legislators
and other agencies at a grassroots level. The Tennessee Government
Affairs Committee (TN-GAC) has been working with state ACS members to
chart an agenda for educational reform in the area of Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and to enlist other
state education stakeholders such as business and industry groups,
science teacher organizations, and other education constituencies in
this effort.
More information can be found at http://www.acstngac.org/.
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| 8:00-8:30 pm "TN SCORE and Education in Tennessee",
Arlene Arnold, Director of Statewide Operations, TN SCORE |
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Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE) is an
initiative to jumpstart long-term educational change in Tennessee to
ensure that every child graduates high school prepared for college or a
career. In the fall 0f 2008, Governor Phil Bredesen set a high bar for
Tennessee's K-12 education system with the Tennessee Diploma Project,
and SCORE will focus on jumpstarting reforms that will help Tennessee
schools, teachers, and students meet this bar.
SCORE will
achieve this goal by (1) developing a strategic plan for K-12 education
reform in Tennessee via a statewide Steering Committee of key
stakeholders (2) launching a number of Project Teams to initiate both
statewide and local education projects and (3) running a grassroots
campaign to promote the state's new standards, identify education
activists across the state, and create conversations among local
community leaders about how each community can improve its local
schools.
More can be found at http://www.tennesseescore.org.
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| 8:30-8:45 Closing Remarks,
Ms. Paula Moody, 2009 Chair NETS-ACS |
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Thank you for staying involved in the activities of GRITS.
Cacy DeSheles
Assistant Director
Girls Raised In Tennessee Science |
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