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NC businesses helping shape STEM education
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 | Lynne Garrison
Vice President
NCNSP Strategic Partnerships and Engagement
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Top corporate leaders met last month in Washington, DC, to rally behind a national campaign aimed at enlisting businesses to help boost student skills in science, technology, engineering and math and to get involved in a "STEM revolution." They heard from speakers urging sweeping change as a necessary step to improve student readiness. They heard from the authors of a new report, The Case for Being Bold, released by the meeting's host, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for a Competitive Workforce, urging businesses to play a more active role in transforming education across the nation.
North Carolina is already in the game. As one of the nation's Race to the Top grant recipients, the state is in the process of developing networks of STEM-focused, non-traditional schools, with related businesses serving as essential partners. Those business leaders will ensure that direct link between economic development and education, providing students and teachers with hands-on learning experiences in the schools and in the workplace and assisting in the development of classroom projects, to name only a few samples of involvement. The aim is to help all schools and districts advance STEM education by linking deeply innovative schools to more conventional schools in every corner of North Carolina.
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Five NCNSP teachers named Kenan Fellows
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 Teachers from five innovative high schools in the state won recognition recently when they were named among the latest class of the Kenan Fellows Program for Curriculum and Leadership Development at N.C. State University. The five teachers were among 47 in all selected as part of the Kenan Fellows Class of 2012.
The competitive, two-year fellowship gives teachers the opportunity to interact with other outstanding teachers, policy and business leaders and research scientists, and offers professional development aimed at building strong instructional leadership skills. Kenan Fellows remain in their classroom and develop curriculum projects in conjunction with research mentors from N.C. State University, other campuses of the University of North Carolina or in private industry.
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Students learn, share at STEM Symposium
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 Lucas Paynter was unflustered standing in front of a few dozen high school peers - part of a team of students from Warren New Tech High School explaining how they solved a murder mystery using a blood-splatter analysis.
"I like getting up and presenting to other students," the 18-year-old senior said over lunch at a recent student symposium at N.C. State University's McKimmon Center. Lucas was one of nearly 100 students from a half dozen innovative STEM-focused high schools who'd come to Raleigh to share what they'd learned from a team project they'd tackled during the year.
"I like the peer to peer connections," Lucas said. "When you hear from other students, it sticks with you more."
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