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Field Trip Partnerships: Student-To-Student Mentoring, Aziza Darwish, Robyn Lee-Diaz

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Children running wild enjoying a day of freedom, exhausted chaperones, budget-conscious, hand-wringing administrators back at school -- all of these conjure troubling images for educators about field trips. These are far from the enjoyable, state-of-the-art, educational experiences that field trips could be for today's teachers and students.

For several years, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy® (IMSA) has had longstanding partnerships with school districts throughout the state which have involved designing STEM field trip experiences that serve middle school educators and students. These field trips to the Academy are led by IMSA high school students who are enrolled in the …

2004 Sixteenth Annual Imsa Presentation Day, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

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"Students who attend the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy do not have to wait until they graduate from college to begin to make significant contributions to science, mathematics, the humanities and the world around them."

1990 Second Annual Imsa Presentation Day, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

The Second Annual Presentation Day was funded in part by a grant from the Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation.

1989 First Annual Imsa Presentation Day, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

"Attached is a schedule of the times and locations of the presentations.

All faculty and students are expected to attend at least one of the sessions. At the end of her talk, Rowan Lockwood will describe some of her experiences as a Westinghouse finalist."