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A partnership between a local school district and a university’s education college has created an innovative program that provides learning opportunities at all levels each summer. Entering its eighth year, the program brings together middle school students, pre-service teachers, classroom teachers, and university graduate students and faculty for a month of hands-on learning in a variety of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) activities. The program continues to thrive with approximately 50 pre-service teachers, 325-350 middle schoolers, and 20-30 classroom teachers participating. Through the years, it continues to be an engaging and positive experience for those involved. Sometimes great ideas are born by chance...a solution presents itself out of necessity in a simple conversation, only to build upon its successes through the years. Such is the case with a Kansas education college’s long-standing Professional Development School (PDS) partnership with a local school district for its STEM Summer Institute (SI). Seven years ago, the school district wanted to provide a summer camp-like program that focused on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) for the community’s middle schoolers. However, the school district didn’t have an air-conditioned facility available to house the classes during a hot Kansas summer due to construction projects at the schools. The college’s administrators, noting that their building on campus was under-utilized during the summer, offered the space as an in-kind 1 Goodson et al.: STEM Summer Program Impacts Middle Schoolers, Pre-service Teacher Published by New Prairie Press, 2018 TABLE of CONTENTS consideration for prior summer staff development the district had hosted for university faculty. That first summer then served as a basis for a major Department of Defense grant the district received to support the work of the STEM SI camp in future years. That was the summer of 2011, when 169 sixththrough ninth-grade students attended a variety of classes in the education building, led by 20 school district faculty and staff, and 39 pre-service college students and staff. Today, nearly eight years later, the STEM SI has developed into a signature program of the partnership with enrollment climbing to approximately 325 to 350 middle schoolers each summer. The Summer STEM Camp is a product of nearly three decades of a formal PDS partnership with our local district. The project combines two key elements that have contributed to its success through the years—highly engaging STEM-related hands-on classes for the middle schoolers and field experiences loaded with authentic student-contact time for the pre-service teachers. STEM INSTITUTE ATTENDANCE 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th TOTAL 2016 126 93 62 28 13 322 2015 120 110 60 46 13 349 2014 110 95 62 35 13 315 2013 n/a 90 69 26 6 191 2012 n/a 93 56 31 11 191 2011 n/a 76 49 33 11 161

STEM Summer Program Impacts Middle Schoolers, Pre-service Teachers