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​Bringing 21st Century Science Skills to the Classroom
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2019: Science is for Everyone, Everyday!
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Bringing 21st Century Science Skills to the Classroom

The 43nd annual Convention will be held
Tuesday & Wednesday, October 22 & 23, 2019
at the Princeton Marriott Forrestal


​The Convention is co-sponsored by New Jersey Science Teachers Association and New Jersey Science Education Leadership Association.
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The New Jersey Science Convention is the best professional development opportunity in the Mid-Atlantic area for science educators, including teachers, administrators, and student interns. 

This two-day Convention allows more teachers to attend at least one day of activities without burdening the school districts with excessive absence. Each day has over seventy-five sessions of interest to all levels and disciplines in science, as well as over fifty-five vendors of science books, supplies, and equipment.  ​
​This has been, and continues to be, the absolutely best PD opportunity that exists for science teachers.  As a department chair who also teaches classes, there as so many things to see and learn about at the NJSC!  The exhibit hall and the banquet were fantastic as well...

Nominate a Teacher for the 2019 Anton Banko Award

for Excellence in Teaching Elementary Science
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2019 Annual Banquet Speaker

Dr. Sabine Kastner
Educational Neuroscience for the 21st Century
Sabine Kastner
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2018 Highlights

2018: Science Shapes our Changing World

2018 Professional Development Statement

2018 Anton Banko Award

for Excellence in Teaching Elementary Science
This award honors Anton Banko, an engineer who co-invented small incision cataract surgery. The technologies and procedures he pioneered are still used by surgeons today, and represent a true milestone in the evolution of STEM applications. It is in his memory that we celebrate an exceptional elementary teacher from New Jersey who is inspiring the next generation of inventors, scientists, and engineers.

Congratulations to the 2018 Anton Banko Award recipients.

Winner:  Tracey Maiden, Second Grade Teacher, Highland Park, NJ

Honorable Mention:  Dana Skillman, Fourth Grade Teacher, Charter School, Trenton, NJ

Honorable Mention:  Peter Morris, Fifth Grade Teacher, Stanhope, NJ 

​​The award recipients were honored at the NJSC Annual Banquet on Tuesday, October 23, 2018. 
2018 Anton Banko Award Winner
Kim Feltre, Tracey Maiden
2018 Anton Banko Award Runner Up
Kim Feltre, Dana Skillman
2018 Anton Banko Award Runner Up
Kim Feltre, Peter Morris
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​The Anton Banko Award is made possible through the sponsorship of Knowing Science.

Congratulations to the 2018 NJSC Award Recipients

Roseanne Gillis Award  - James Messersmith

Established in 2006 by members of the Science Convention Steering Committee, this award is given to a person who has served on the Steering Committee for a minimum of 15 years, has contributed extraordinarily to the success of the Convention, and has had a significant impact on the success of the Convention.
2018 Roseanne Gillis Award
Lisa Doyle, James Messersmith, Lola Szobota
​Tom Fangman Award - John Szobota

Established in 2002 by members of the Science Convention Steering Committee, this award is given to a person who has contributed exemplary service to the Convention over a long period of time.

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​Tom Fangman Award
Lola Szobota, John Szobota, Lisa Doyle
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​The award recipients were honored at the NJSC Annual Banquet on Tuesday, October 23, 2018. 

Special Award Presented to John Simon at 2018 NJSC

The 2018 New Jersey Science Convention marked a milestone for the John Simon Instrument Company, 42 continuous years of participation in the Convention.  John Simon has supported the Convention not only as a vendor but has each year generously provided the table centerpieces and also a top-quality microscope as a door prize to a Convention attendee.  As a gesture of our appreciation, we have commissioned, appropriately, within the heavenly Constellation Microscopium, visible in the southern celestial hemisphere, a star bearing the name John Simon.  Thank you John.  We think the universe of you!
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John Simon with Louise Simon

Thank You to the 2018 NJSC Service Award Recipients

The Service Awards are presented to members of the New Jersey Science Convention Steering Committee who have achieved 5-year increments in service to the Convention.   The award recipients were honored at the NJSC Annual Banquet on Tuesday, October 23, 2018. ​

Congratulations and thank you to Bunny Jaskot (15 years), John Chapman (15 years), Sandra Buleza (25 years), and Trudy Iwanski (35 years).
Lola Szobota, Bunny Jaskot, Lisa Doyle
Lola Szobota, Lisa Doyle, John Chapman
Lisa Doyle, Sandra Buleza, Lola Szobota
Lisa Doyle, Trudy Iwanski, Lola Szobota

Congratulations to the Poster Contest Winners!

​Congratulations to Yuvanshu Agarwal, winner of the 2018 NJSC Poster Competition! Yuvanshu is a sophomore at the Academy for Mathematics, Science and Engineering in Rockaway, NJ.
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Congratulations to all our semi-finalists who attended the following schools:
  • The Academy for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, Rockaway, NJ
  • Middlesex County Academy for Allied Health and Biomedical Sciences, Woodbridge Township, NJ
  • Morris Hills Regional District, Rockaway, NJ
  • Ridgefield Memorial High School, Ridgefield, NJ

A special thank you to all our entrants from these other schools:
  • Bayonne School District, Bayonne, NJ
  • Gloucester Catholic High School, Gloucester City, NJ
  • Henry Hudson Regional School, Highlands, NJ
  • Lawton C. Johnson Summit Middle School, Summit, NJ

​We hope to see artwork from these schools and more next year!
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2018 Banquet Speaker

Mireya Mayor
Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer
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We would like to thank the following companies for their generous support of NJSC 2018.

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​The connections we make with other science teachers, the shared ideas, creates excitement ​to bring back to your classroom and to excite students about science.
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