Discovery Education Wilkes University Master of Science Degree in Instructional Media

1. Learn about the program from our amazing course designers, check out student projects, and more at our brand new website: www.discoveryeducation.com/masters
2. Every Tuesday educators enrolled in the Discovery Education Wilkes University Instructional Media Program get together to share ideas.  Join them on February 16, 2010 as they have Daniel Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New Mind, dropping by for an hour-long discussion.  All the details can be found here.

DEN's Spring Virtual Conference: Save the Date

Our Spring Virtual Conference will take place on Saturday, April 24, 2010.

Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge: Leadership Council Winner
As part of our DEN challenge connected to the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge we offered to host a Day of Discovery, in conjunction with the spring virtual conference, for the DEN Leadership Council whose state had the most entries by January 31, 2010.

And our winning LC is...Texas!  Congratulations to all the Texas LC members. 

Thank you as well to all the DEN Leadership Councils who helped spread the word about the We Can Change the World Challenge.

Siemens STEM Academy
In partnership with the Siemens Foundation, we are thrilled to announce the Siemens STEM Academy.  It is a multi-faceted program that includes:

• a premier on-line community designed exclusively to foster STEM achievement through the sharing of best practices
• a monthly webinar series that will feature today's leading scientists, academics, and personalities such as Dr. Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and host of Science Channel's Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible, to excite students and provide teachers with actionable recommendations for integrating STEM into the classroom
• a week-long STEM immersion program that will enable 50 select teachers to meet in Washington, D.C. to engage with today's critical science thinkers and other peers from across the nation and visit leading institutions to see real-world applications of STEM subject matter
• a two-week residential professional development program, Siemens Teachers As Researchers (STARS), for select middle school and high school teachers in which teachers engage in mentored research projects with top scientists and researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN