HRMS science teacher Adam Smith checks in with students as he prepares for a group reading of the book “Touching Spirit Bear,” during the final week of school in June.
HRMS science teacher Adam Smith checks in with students as he prepares for a group reading of the book “Touching Spirit Bear,” during the final week of school in June.
Adam Smith, a Hood River Middle School teacher, is one of 13 K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teachers from across the United States been named 2016-2017 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellows. The Albert Einstein Distinguished Education Fellowship (AEF) Program provides a unique opportunity for accomplished K-12 STEM educators to apply their extensive classroom knowledge and experience to their host offices to inform federal STEM education efforts, according to an AEF press release.
“For me pursuing science, technology, engineering, and math has been a fantastic way to explore the world and stoke my curiosity, in addition to helping me cultivate other useful skill sets,” Smith said.
The fellows will spend 11 months serving in a federal agency or U.S. Congressional office in Washington, D.C., engaged in the national STEM education arena.
“I’m honored to have been selected as an Albert Einstein Educator Fellow. I’m tremendously grateful for all the support and opportunities to grow that working in Hood River has provided me,” Smith said. “I will miss Hood River during my leave of absence, but I’m excited to bring what I learn back to the community.
I’m interested in helping to foster engagement in STEM fields among more of our students. I want them to have more tools available to them so they can also follow their curiosity and feel empowered to make a difference in the world.”
The 2016-2017 Einstein Fellows come from K-12 schools across the country and represent diverse teaching backgrounds—with expertise in robotics, computer science, engineering, science and mathematics. Federal agencies and U.S. congressional offices will benefit from fellows’ real-world experience as educators. In return, Einstein Fellows will gain understanding of the role of the federal government in the U.S. education enterprise, knowledge of resources available to students and educators, and broader perspectives on national education issues that can be applied to the classroom or to leadership positions in their districts or elsewhere. The AEF Program, now in its 26th year of operation, is managed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science’s Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists in collaboration with the sponsoring agencies and the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. Current sponsoring agencies of the AEF Program include the DOE, the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. In addition to sponsoring placements at DOE headquarters, DOE sponsors up to four placements in U.S. Congressional offices.
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