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From YouTube: Parents Corner - June 2017
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Tina Gill Meister, Ph.D., STEM Coordinator, Joins Kathy to Discuss STEM Programs in AACPS
A
It's
obvious
that
future
job
success
is
the
top
educational
goal
for
our
students
can
enrolling
in
programs
specifically
focused
in
the
areas
of
science,
technology,
engineering,
math
or
healthcare
help
our
students
transition
in
these
fields,
the
ACPs
magnet
programs
in
stem
and
Bheema
biomedical,
allied
health
hope
to
accomplish
just
this.
Both
magnet
programs
are
currently
offered
at
high
school
levels,
with
stem
also
offered
to
our
middle
schoolers.
A
Are
you
wondering
if
your
child
would
do
well
in
a
stem
or
B
my
magnet
program
and
how
to
apply
or
just
how
you
can
bring
more
stem
Irby?
Much
of
your
own
home
school?
We
spoke
with
Tina
Kilmister
of
ACPs
for
more
information,
sue
Tina.
Thank
you.
So
much
for
being
here
today,
we've
talked
on
the
show
before
to
dr.
Joe,
about
the
magnet
programs
in
general
and
I
wanted
to
talk
to
you
today
the
dive
a
little
bit
deeper
into
two
of
those
and
the
ones
that
you
concentrate
on
being
stem
and
Bheema.
B
B
Program
so
all
of
our
magnet
programs
are
based
on
a
lottery
system
which
has
no
waiting
or
bias
and
inherent
in
it,
and
so
once
students
meet
the
criteria
set
forth
by
that
magnet
program.
That
student
is
eligible
to
enter
the
lottery
and
the
lottery
process
is
done,
late,
February,
early
March
and
then
students
are
selected
randomly
by
an
outside
agency
and
the
results
are
sent
back
to
us.
Okay,.
A
B
A
I
know
you
talked
about
different
internship
opportunities,
which
I
think
is
very
exciting
and
something
that
parents
may
not
know
about.
Can
you
speak
a
little
bit?
Are
there
internships
for
stem
as
well
as
bhima
and,
and
I
know
there
were
higher
education
as
well
as
corpora,
and
I
think
that's
very
exciting
because
it
gives
students
real
world
work
applications.
So
can
you
talk
a
little
bit
to
that?
Yes,.
B
I
know
dr.
alato
and
dr.
McMahon
really
see
the
value
of
internships
for
our
students
and
that
real-world
experience.
You're
talking
about
is
exactly
what
the
employers
and
the
businesses
are
telling
us.
Students
need,
and
so
what
we
have
here
is
we
have
an
internship
coordinator,
tammy
dietrich,
and
we
also
have
an
internship
portal
which
was
developed
specifically
for
a
ACPs
to
match
internships,
to
manage
internships
to
reflect
on
internships
and
things
like
that,
and
so
at
each
of
our
high
schools.
There's
an
internship
facilitator
that
works
for
students.
B
B
Those
students
are
brought
to
us
multiple
ways
and
those
internships
are
brought
to
us
multiple
ways:
students
that
may
have
internship
opportunities
in
the
community
that
they
bring
to
us,
but
also
we
have
our
business
partners
bringing
in
internship
opportunities
that
they
want
to
offer
to
our
students
and
all
of
those
are
fully
vetted.
Everyone
is
fully
background,
check
and
there's
very
specific
guidelines
about
how
that
runs.
So.
A
If
a
student
is
not
enrolled
in
the
magnet
program,
they
still
have
opportunities
out
of
MCM
and
be
much.
Can
you
explain
that
too,
because
I
think
that's
very
important,
and
parents
may
not
know
about
that.
You
don't
have
to
be
in
the
magnet
program
because
it
is
a
lottery
and
there's
you
know
only
a
few
certain
school
locations
that
have
those
programs,
but
how
can
students
that
are
not
enrolled
in
those
programs
take
advantage
of
the
opportunities
sure.
B
There
are
several
ways
to
do
that.
One
way
is
through
our
co-curricular
opportunities,
those
before
after
and
during
school
clubs,
because
and
stem
supports
additional
Club
allotments
for
our
schools
up
and
beyond
what
the
district
supports
for
them
at
least
an
additional
one.
Club
every
school,
that's
related
to
stem
and
we
are
able
to
support
even
more
than
that
at
the
school
request,
set
they're
also
able
to
participate
in
a
curricular
way.
B
So
there
are
things
that
we
pilot
in
the
STEM
program
that
are
then
able
to
be
offered
at
other
schools
throughout
the
county,
such
as
elective
courses
or
such
as
our
new
system.
Science
rollout
with
the
science
office
that
originally
was
a
part
of
the
STEM
program
in
the
ninth
grade
and
now
has
been
rolled
out
in
middle
school
countywide
through
sixth,
seventh
and
eighth
grade.
In
addition
to
curricular
and
co-curricular,
we
also
offer
community
opportunities.
A
B
A
B
A
B
Khurram
stem
also
supports
professional
development,
so
we
support
that
through
this
summer
we
do
some
summer
Institute's
for
teachers
that
are
offered
to
all
teachers
in
the
county
to
take
advantage
of
the
teaching
methodologies
of
stem,
which
that
includes
problem
and
project-based
learning,
Socratic
dialogue
and
higher-level
questioning
and
technology
integration
and
those
professional
development
opportunities
are
available
to
all
teachers
to
begin
using
those
stem
type
of
teaching
in
their
classrooms
throughout
the
county.
I
love
a
Socratic.
A
B
B
What
we
really
did
is
we
looked
at
model
stem
programs
across
the
nation,
and
we
network
with
you
huge
variety
of
business
and
community
stakeholders
in
order
to
see
what
is
it
that
students
need,
what
is
it
that
businesses
need
and
we
matched
those
together
to
create
the
STEM
program
that
we
have
it's
actually
very
unique
in
the
nation,
because
our
STEM
program
is
about
being
different,
not
about
being
more,
not
necessarily
about
being
accelerated
or
being
elite.
It's
about
opening
the
wide
array
of
opportunities
and
stem
that
exists,
especially
in
our
region.
B
A
And
what
about
other
opportunities
things
like
competitions
or
potential
scholarships,
or
things
that
if
a
student
goes
to
a
school
that
may
not
at
this
point,
have
as
much
stem
as
they're
looking
for?
Are
there
opportunities
to
get
in
touch
with
your
office
to
find
out
from
a
county
standpoint,
other
things
to
get
involved
with
absolutely
my.
B
Office
has
been
very
well
supported
by
the
board
dr.
alato
in
our
entire
community.
We
actually
have
an
elementary
specialist,
a
middle
school
specialist
and
a
high
school
specialist
who
work
not
only
with
the
magnets
but
with
schools
throughout
the
county,
as
they
request,
because
and
also
it's
very
well
supported
in
the
community.
So
the
public
libraries
have
been
a
great
partner
in
offering
a
lot
of
stem
programming.
The
community
colleges
especially
also
offering
stem
programming
and
then
just
local
businesses
and
organizations.
B
B
A
B
Really
important
when
I
think
about
this
to
look
back
at
our
stem
values,
and
one
of
those
values
includes
radical
curiosity
and
revolutionary
imagination
and
a
lot
of
times.
Students
don't
get
the
opportunity
to
have
that
unstructured
time,
and
what
we
found
is
that's
really
critical
to
developing
the
creativity
and
innovation
skills
that
they
have
so
allowing
them
that
time
to
be
outside
or
to
be
inside,
creating
what
we
call
invitations
to
play,
which
is
just
putting
out
interesting
materials
and
seeing
what
they
do
with
them.
B
That's
something
that's
really
a
cool
thing
that
can
happen
over
the
summer
summer
is
also
a
time
where
kids
can
work
on
some
long-term
projects
that
they're
passionate
about
whether
it's
building
a
Ford
in
their
backyard
or
a
huge
lego
model,
or
just
the
ability
to
do
a
cooking
project.
You
know
and
I
think
allowing
them
to
explore
those
passions
is
really
what
the
STEM
fields
are.
Looking
for
and.
A
B
B
A
B
Our
office
has
a
website,
it's
WWE,
ACPs,
o
RG
/
stem
XD
e
m,
and
that
has
a
lot
of
information
there,
not
only
about
our
magnets
but
co-curricular,
xand
resources
and
things
like
that.
We
also
are
available
by
phone.
It's
four
one,
zero,
two,
two
two
five,
three,
ninety
one
and
we
welcome
opportunities
to
collaborate.
B
We
have
what
we
call
opportunities
for
involvement
in
stem
and
they
might
be
more
than
the
traditional
opportunities
you
think
of
like
a
guest
speaker
or
a
class
helper,
because
people
in
our
community
and
our
parents
have
a
lot
to
offer
and
we
want
them
to
be
able
to
play
at
whatever
level
it
is
that
they're
able
to
plan.
We
have
curriculum
review
days
where
people
in
the
community
and
businesses
and
it's
come
in
and
give
us
suggestions
on
our
curriculum.