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Peer reviewedWorrell, Jay H. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1987
Describes a six-week summer program for gifted high school students in mathematics, science, and computer programing, conducted by the Center for Mathematical Services at the University of South Florida. Discusses the assessment tests used and the courses and topics taught, particularly the chemistry concepts and skills. (TW)
Descriptors: Chemistry, College School Cooperation, Computer Literacy, Gifted
Download full textDenoya, Laila E., Ed.; And Others – 1997
This book contains descriptions of the 122 Summer Science Camps (SSC) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) from 1992 to 1996. This program is employed as an early intervention strategy that reaches out to a large number of disadvantaged children who are underrepresented in scientific and technical careers. The main goal of the SSC is to…
Descriptors: Calculus, Career Awareness, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Strategies
ORBIS Associates, Washington, DC. – 1995
This document contains information on summer academic programs offered to American Indian and Alaska Native junior high and high school students. Included are mathematics and science summer programs offered to high school students by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society at universities in Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Iowa,…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, American Indians, Career Exploration
Gifford, Bernard R. – 1983
The current crisis in the quality and instruction of pre-college mathematics/science education is acknowledged to be one of the major problems confronting American education. Such future demographic changes as increasing numbers of immigrant and minority-group students in the school population will make the crisis more acute. Many factors need to…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC. – 1982
This source book describes 107 projects administered by the U.S. Department of Education under the Pre-College Teacher Development in Science (PTDS) Program from 1980-82. Under the program, grants of up to $50,000 were made to colleges, universities, and museums to assist them in providing opportunities to elementary teachers for continuing…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Science, Environmental Education
Williams, Richard; And Others – 1981
Upward Bound's National Demonstration Project "Science and Self-Determination" (SSD) awarded to the American Indian Educational Opportunity Program at University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1980 shares a common purpose with other Upward Bound Projects: to provide opportunity to low income and otherwise disadvantaged secondary students to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indian Education, Career Awareness, College Preparation
