STEM Ambassadors News

STEM Ambassadors: Mentors in disguise

Posted by Amber Kapiloff Daily Bulldog, Franklin County’s First News website December 17, 2018 FARMINGTON – On a Thursday evening grew dark in the late fall, the Farmington Public Library stands warm and inviting to a wide variety of readers, writers, and learners. For the past six weeks, those learners gathered in the back corner […]

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4-H STEM Ambassadors and UMF students teach chemistry to 5th-graders in Farmington

Fifth-graders at Cascade Brook School have been learning about chemistry and solutions from the University of Maine at Farmington students who are majoring in secondary science education, in partnership with the 4-H STEM Ambassadors Program, a 4-H youth development program of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. Read more about the hands-on lessons in the article, UMF students […]

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4-H STEM Ambassadors and UMF students team up to teach science, technology, engineering and math skills in RSU 9 classrooms at no cost to the district

A collaboration between UMaine Cooperative Extension’s 4-H Youth Development Program and the University of Maine at Farmington is getting participating RSU 9 students excited about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The program is called 4-H STEM Ambassadors, and the goal is to have UMF students majoring in education or a STEM-affiliated major go into […]

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