Creating a model for 21st
century STEM education through
innovation and leadership.

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Working with sponsors and school administrators, science, technology, engineering and mathematics teachers are selected for leadership development and support. We offer a model for 21st century STEM education that includes:

  • Access to frontier science and engineering people, problems, and tools
  • Project based learning opportunities
  • Utilization of technology for data acquisition, analysis, modeling, information and communication
  • Authentic assessment of skills and knowledge
  • Science inquiry and engineering design in teaching and learning
  • An international partnership program with:

Institute for the Early Universe

Paris Center for Cosmological Physics

Global Hands-On Universe

 

More on the benefits and attributes of 21st Century Education can be found at Edutopia by the George Lucas foundation.

"Teachers and their students will have access to and experience learning through exciting partnerships with international organizations to draw upon new ideas, expertise, and resources from around the globe, recognizing that virtually all major initiatives in cosmology require innovative global collaboration.” BCCP founding director George Smoot