Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s education professor wins prestigious NSERC Science Promotion Prize

Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s education professor wins prestigious NSERC Science Promotion Prize

Lynda Colgan adds national research outreach award to a list of recognition for career achievements.

By Julie Brown, Julie Brown, Media Relations Officer

July 23, 2020

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Lynda Colgan
Lynda Colgane (Education) has been awarded the 2020 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션s (NSERC) Science Promotion Award for individual achievement.

A distinguished mentor, researcher, and educator at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트 has just been awarded the 2020 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션s (NSERC) for individual achievement. The award honours people and groups that are inspirational in the way they promote science to the general public. They are an opportunity for Canada's science community to recognize, support and encourage outstanding science promoters. 

The common denominator in Lynda Colgan카지노 게임 컬렉션s research and passion has been to dispel the myth that math and science are hard, dead subjects that only certain people can do successfully. Dr. Colgan uses intuitive approaches and strategies to help educators see mathematics through the eyes of children.  

카지노 게임 컬렉션The math and science experience have changed drastically over the years. Today, so many things are paid for with a debit or credit card, and cashiers are told by registers what change to give back to customers, resulting in them not counting the change for customers. Part of it is that there are many things happening around them that makes children actually believe that they don카지노 게임 컬렉션t ever have to use math.카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Dr. Colgan, professor of elementary mathematics and coordinator of the  Education Community Outreach Centre, Faculty of Education.  

To respond to this need, her approach has evolved and expanded to include outreach, and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education, resulting in projects and products that search for creative avenues to engage both students, parents, and educators. 

카지노 게임 컬렉션What I try to do is encourage everyone 카지노 게임 컬렉션 family members included 카지노 게임 컬렉션 to become math mentors and role models who 카지노 게임 컬렉션do카지노 게임 컬렉션 math naturally and for real purposes every day, everywhere. I do this by creating and disseminating simple 카지노 게임 컬렉션unplugged카지노 게임 컬렉션 STEM crafts, games and experiments to encourage, facilitate, reinforce and/or review important skills and STEM concepts on the go카지노 게임 컬렉션 카지노 게임 컬렉션 in the car, the backyard, the park, the grocery store,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Dr. Colgan.  

One of these initiatives is the highly successful , which is a celebration of STEM subjects and discoveries, scientists, and researchers featuring demonstrations, experiments and exhibits to bring people of all ages 카지노 게임 컬렉션 toddlers to retirees 카지노 게임 컬렉션 from across south-eastern Ontario into the world of science. Participation in Science Rendezvous Kingston has grown each year, as its reputation swells, from 650 to over 5,000 attendees in 2019, making it the most-attended Science Rendezvous event in Canada.  

카지노 게임 컬렉션What we카지노 게임 컬렉션re hoping is that we inspire a little curiosity,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Dr. Colgan. 카지노 게임 컬렉션That we inspire that little niggle, that helps the kids to say, 카지노 게임 컬렉션I want to know more about that, I want to read about that, I want to do that,카지노 게임 컬렉션 and, basically, that will grow.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Dr. Colgan, along with the other Science Rendezvous coordinator, Kim Garrett, won the STEAM BIG Award from NSERC in 2019, for outstanding contribution to a Science Rendezvous event. 

Prior to her appointment at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s in 1998, Dr. Colgan was an award-winning educator with the Scarborough Board of Education for 25 years. During that time, she taught or held leadership and administrative positions at every educational level 카지노 게임 컬렉션 elementary (K-6), intermediate (7-8), secondary (9-13), and post-secondary in roles centred around the integration of computer technology and mathematics. Throughout her tenure, Dr. Colgan has developed pivotal resources for the mathematics curriculum across Canada, including textbooks, research monographs and teacher and parent resource guides. 

Dr. Colgan was also awarded funding for a three-year NSERC PromoScience grant for a project called Learning with Dinosaurs: A gateway to multidisciplinary STEM learning. That project, in collaboration with Peter May and Research Casting International, seeks to revitalize educational resources about dinosaurs by disseminating museum-quality artifacts and interactive guided curriculum to provide hands-on STEM activities to improve Canadian teachers카지노 게임 컬렉션 knowledge and student interest in the multidisciplinary field of paleontology, which includes biology, zoology, geology, chemistry and physics. 

She is also the recipient of an NSERC Promo Science Supplement Grant for Science Literacy Week. It will go to support a virtual author in residence program and is set to take place this September. 

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