Past experience: Materials Science Camp held at Wentworth Institute of Technology
The ASM Boston Chapter has been providing Teachers Camps since 2014 at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. Up to 25 teachers, mainly high-school teachers from the Boston area, attend this FREE 5-day workshop where they learn the basics of Materials Science and its applications. The focus is “hands-on” as most labs and activities elucidate the properties of materials. Note that these labs are low-cost approaches which are suitable for teachers to emulate with their students. Since that initial camp, we have run 6 additional camps including last year’s reemergence from the pandemic with a solid crew of almost twenty teachers.
The Educational Foundation of ASM International provides the syllabus for these camps, which have been gaining popularity since the first one took place in 2002; there are over 50 camps, throughout North America. Materials Science involves physics, chemistry and engineering and is called ‘the enabling technology” and most inventions rely on some new material with special properties. As noted, this camp is FREE for all teachers! New England is a center of Materials Science research and development work, and there is always a demand for experts in this field.
Feedback over the years from those attending, whether science teachers, math teachers or technical-education teachers, has been spectacular. They learn many new ways to engage their students in the coming school year, and most thought that many of the activities would be “fun and fascinating” for the students, and easy to integrate into their lesson plans. “My students will be so excited!” was a comment made many times. Come join us in the summer of 2023!
The Educational Foundation of ASM International provides the syllabus for these camps, which have been gaining popularity since the first one took place in 2002; there are over 50 camps, throughout North America. Materials Science involves physics, chemistry and engineering and is called ‘the enabling technology” and most inventions rely on some new material with special properties. As noted, this camp is FREE for all teachers! New England is a center of Materials Science research and development work, and there is always a demand for experts in this field.
Feedback over the years from those attending, whether science teachers, math teachers or technical-education teachers, has been spectacular. They learn many new ways to engage their students in the coming school year, and most thought that many of the activities would be “fun and fascinating” for the students, and easy to integrate into their lesson plans. “My students will be so excited!” was a comment made many times. Come join us in the summer of 2023!
All those attending, whether science teachers, math teachers or technical-education teachers, said, at the end of the week, that they had learned many new ways to engage their students in the coming school year, and they thought that many of the activities would be “fun and fascinating” for the students, and easy to integrate into their lessons. “My students will be so excited!” was a comment made many times.
The camp was free for the teachers. Major contributions to the camp’s organization were made by the Educational Foundation, and the Boston and Rhode Island chapters of ASM International, the National Association of Corrosion Engineers, and also by local companies H.C. Starck Inc. of Newton, and Instron Corp. of Norwood, as well as Wentworth Institute of Technology. The camp was so useful that everyone who took part said they will recommend to their colleagues that they should come next year!
26 July 2014
The camp was free for the teachers. Major contributions to the camp’s organization were made by the Educational Foundation, and the Boston and Rhode Island chapters of ASM International, the National Association of Corrosion Engineers, and also by local companies H.C. Starck Inc. of Newton, and Instron Corp. of Norwood, as well as Wentworth Institute of Technology. The camp was so useful that everyone who took part said they will recommend to their colleagues that they should come next year!
26 July 2014
Teachers Camp
Message from the Teacher Participants
