A Graduate Course from MSEF’s Curious Minds Initiative (CMI)
Complete GRIPS to earn 1 graduate credit. GRIPS is part of the STEM Certificate in Inquiry from Framingham State University.
On-line Zoom series of sessions: Dates TBA
About GRIPS
Tools to guide student research & manage your “Science Fair Program”, GRIPS provides a framework and guidance for best practices in the logistics of managing a classroom with students working on independent research on different topics, and running a science fair program and building district-based support for it.
GRIPS Benefits
Your Students & Teaching practice:
- Every student deserves the opportunity to experience the joys and challenges of the discovery process – the chance to learn something never before known!
- Science Fairs enable students to explore their natural curiosity about the world in the same way that “real” scientists and inventors do.
- Science fair programs help students develop essential 21st-century life & career skills: reading, math, writing, critical thinking, ethics, communication and graphic arts.
- Receive a special invitation to participate in MSEF Educator Day at MIT.
Comments from science fair students:
"Life-forming experience"
"Allowed me to go to college"
"I was constructing my future."
Benefits for Teachers and Communities:
- INSPIRE STUDENTS & BE PART OF THE DISCOVERY PROCESS! Guiding students through the research process provides teachers with a chance to inspire students to pursue science, technology and engineering studies, and also to become involved in the discovery process themselves.
- CONNECT WITH PARENTS & LOCAL BUSINESS COMMUNITY. Local businesses and parent/community organizations can provide resources, knowing that science fair programs offer students critical life skills and a potential pathway to college scholarships.
* MSEF Educator Day at MIT | When and Where: TBA
Apply for a travel stipend and/or matching support for a substitute teacher! A special free conference held on Friday during the Science & Engineering Fair for high school students @ MIT. Highlights include: walking the Exhibition Hall of 300 “Best of the Best” high school student science fair projects in Massachusetts; a seat in the Judge Orientation Program (with ~300 judges from academia and industry); feedback and discussion inquiry and project-based approaches in your teaching practice; and breakfast and lunch!
GRIPS Fees, Credits and More
Registration Fee: $10 Total Tuition & Course Materials: $200 Graduate Credit: 1 graduate credit will be available to earn at an additional cost of $100. Please Note: teachers who want to enroll for graduate credit will receive an application from MSEF, which must be submitted with payment of fees before the course begins. MSEF Educator Day: FREE with course registration! More Information: cmi@scifair.com Please note that registration fees & graduate credit costs are non-refundable.