Bringing 21st Century Science Skills to the Classroom
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The 43rd annual Convention will be held
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The Convention is co-sponsored by New Jersey Science Teachers Association and New Jersey Science Education Leadership Association. |
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Mark your calendar for the 44th NJSC: Tuesday, 10/20/2020–Wednesday, 10/21/2020 |
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 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...
Congratulations to the 2019 NJSC Award Recipients
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Roseanne Gillis Award - Nancy Evans Bennett 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. |
Tom Fangman Award - Richard Consales 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. |
The award recipients will be honored at the NJSC Annual Banquet on Tuesday, October 22, 2019.
The award recipients will be honored at the NJSC Annual Banquet on Tuesday, October 22, 2019.
2019 Annual Banquet Speaker & Invited Presenter
Dr. Sabine Kastner
Educational Neuroscience for the 21st Century
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Dr. Kastner will also present the following session.
Wednesday, October 23 10:00-11:00 AM Room: Fitzgerald Visual Perception: The Art of the Brain Most people think that perception is passive – like a camera. I will give many examples of how the brain processes information in a much more active and creative way. Your brain is the greatest artist you ever met! |
Requirements:
- Must be original artwork or non-copyrighted images- final posters must be computer
- generated.
- Theme of poster should reflect awareness of diversity in science and Next Generation Science Standards. Printed posters must be 11” x 17”
- Student’s name and school name should not appear on the face of the poster; each poster
- will be assigned an entry number.
- Due: 10/15/19
- Format: PDF
- Teachers should submit student work to: ldoyle@mhrd.org
- Include: student name, teacher name, email and school address.
- 10 semi-finalist posters will be displayed during the convention and voted on by the attendees for the winner. Next year’s convention booklet cover art will be chosen from the top three winners; artwork is subject to modification as necessary for graphic design.
- Note: The winner will be provided with a NJ Science Convention publicity release so that his/her name and artwork can be published on the booklet cover and website of NJSC.
We would like to thank the following companies for their generous support of NJSC 2019.
2018 Highlights
2018: Science Shapes our Changing World
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.
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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. |
Kim Feltre, Tracey Maiden
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Kim Feltre, Dana Skillman
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Kim Feltre, Peter Morris
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The Anton Banko Award is made possible through the sponsorship of Knowing Science. |
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!
Congratulations to the Poster Contest Winners!
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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.
Congratulations to all our semi-finalists who attended the following schools:
A special thank you to all our entrants from these other schools:
We hope to see artwork from these schools and more next year! |
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We ask you to help us bring this unique professional opportunity to science educators.
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. |
New Jersey Student Learning Standards - Science
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Achieve: American Diploma Project and Next Generation Standards
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