Ever wondered what you could do with you STEM degree after graduating?
WVUteach is an undergraduate program for students who are STEM majors and are interested in developing their professional skills in secondary education. Students who participate in the program will graduate with a state certification as a highly qualified STEM teacher from the West Virginia Department of Education. WVUteach aims to prepare future educators to fulfill the need of STEM focused programs in the state of West Virginia and across the country.
WVUteach works with local community partners like Chelsey Turner, who teaches “Careers in Education” at the Mon County Technical Center, to provide high school students with resources that will help them explore the education field while still in high school. The program helps build new lessons and promotes STEM initiatives in the classroom. In the past, the program has taught inquiry-based lesson so that the students could experience what these lessons would look like in the classroom. The program also emphasizes field-based experiences early and throughout your college career.
WVUteach is planning a campus visit for April 5th to provide students with opportunities that fit their interests. They are also working on providing students who partake in WVUteach with credit from the university. Thanks to WVUteach West Virginia students can better prepare themselves to give back to their communities and help education the next generation of mountaineers.
Many members of the non-profit community have expressed interest in creating an informal group for non-profit leaders, staff, volunteers, and board members to socialize, share, and learn from one another. The Morgantown Public Library (373 Spruce Street) has graciously agreed to host the first gathering on Friday, March 22nd at 4pm just after the library closes.
April Kaull from WVU University Relations will share tips on Getting Your Non-Profit’s Stories to Local Media Outlets. This event is open to anyone from the non-profit community. Please invite anyone you think could benefit. This is intended to be a community driven initiative.
Whether and how we do such gatherings in the future is up to those who attend! The format agreed on so far is rotating the hosting of meetings among area non-profits, to have invited speakers talk briefly with the group about a topic of interest, and time for informal conversation.
Pre-registration is not required. Please share this information with people in the non-profit community who may not yet be official partners of WVU.
WV Prevention Research Center & Community Partnership Board
The WV Prevention Research Center and Community Partnership Board is funded by the CDC and located within the WVU School of Public Health. Their focus is on expanding community engagement and providing leadership by examining underlying behaviors and socials conditions relater to tobacco use, sedentary lifestyle, and poor nutrition in the state of WV.
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The Center for Service and Learning is accepting nominations for the President’s Volunteer Service Award. Any WVU faculty, student or staff member who has completed at least 100 hours of service between March 31, 2018 and April 1, 2019 is eligible for nomination.
WVU faculty, student or staff member may count hours from community service and service learning courses. All honorees who accept their nomination will receive a commemorative pin, The awards are offered in multiple levels and are designed to recognize each milestone of your service achievement. Levels include:
Bronze (100 to 174 hours)
Silver (175 to 249 hours)
Gold (250 or more hours).
In addition, any student who had completed 400+ hours of service will receive additional recognition as an iServe Top Performer. SOLE students will also be eligible for this award.
