Hosted at UNC Asheville, the Sencer Center of Innovation-South is a community of educators dedicated to the teaching of science at all levels through the SENCER values and pedagogies. Our mission is to promote STEM education that engages the challenging and complex social and civic issues we face today, and conversely to engage these challenges and complexities through the lens of science and scientific method. Although we offer support for grant collaborations, workshops, regional meetings, and other forms of consultation to schools and organizations across the U.S., we primarily engage the Southern region (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas).

We are excited to announce the fall 2017 Regional Meeting at Belhaven University. The Mississippi chapter of the American Chemical Society and SENCER SCI-South and SCI-Southwest hope you will join us to learn about innovative research in STEM Education. Topics include undergraduate STEM education for majors and non-majors, assessment of teaching and learning, and informal science education.education.

We are soliciting posters. Submissions should present projects or curriculum design aimed at expanding student interest in STEM learning, through an exploration of the connection between science and its civic or social impact. Our particular interest is to facilitate our colleagues’creativity and exploration of such projects on their own campuses, through encounters with your model and experiences, particularly through the lessons you have learned in doing this important work. When  registering for the one-day meeting you will have the option to submit a poster