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
If interested in coordinating a training, please contact us at cmi@scifair.com.

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.

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 | 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. 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!

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