Education Outreach

K-12	Community	Summer Camps

Teachers	UMD-REU	Service Training

Homeschool	Brochure	Volunteer

Guiding Themes:

Creating bridges between professionally-trained scientists, and professionally-trained educators to improve inquiry-based science teaching
Creating activities that support the curricular needs of the local public schools
Improving recruitment and retention of under-represented groups in the STEM disciplines at the college and pre-college level
Inspiring appreciation for science and engineering
Helping shape and guide the talent pool for the high tech workforce

Alex Prasertchoung
Education Outreach Coordinator
spraser@umd.edu

Donna Hammer
MRSEC Associate Director &
Director of Education Outreach Programs
dhammer@umd.edu

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under the Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers program. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.