Hi TAPT-ers,
October is the month we
traditionally have our breakfast kick-off meeting, so check this out! Bruce has
arranged for a zoom talk from a U of A Astronomer, Irene Shivaei. Dr. Shivaei
is a NASA Hubble postdoc at the U of A. She will talk to us on October 10th, so
a week from this coming Saturday.
Here is an abstract for
her talk:
Mentorship and Education
in SCIence for Tucson (MESCIT) is a mentorship and math tutoring program
for the Native American and refugee K12 students. It is a UA Astronomy
department initiative that started in February 2018. MESCIT tutors,
who are selected from the UA undergraduate students majoring in science or engineering,
visit the local schools on a weekly basis for one-on-one math
tutoring. We mainly work with Ha:san high school, which serves to Native
American (Tohono O'odam) students. The program has demonstrated success in
student grade improvement, feedback from the school principal and teachers,
tutors, and tutees in the last three academic years.
Presenters:
Irene Shivaei, NASA
Hubble postdoctoral fellow, Astronomy department, UA
Everett
Schlawin, Assistant Research Professor, Astronomy department, UA
Ryan Keenan, PhD student, Astronomy department, UA
Bruce or I will send a Zoom
link, and it will be open at 8:30 am on Saturday, Oct 10th. Then Irene and
her colleagues will start around 9:00. Since this is new for TAPT, I’m not sure
how questions will work, but I’m sure we can work it out as we go. As usual, we
will aim to end at 10:30, though the formal presentation part will end around
10.
Sorry, no breakfast
available. Darn.
So add this to your calendar:
Saturday, October 10, 8:30 am for chat, 9:00 am for our guest presentation.
I’ll send a few reminders in the days to come. Hope to see you all there.
Best,
Karie
