Progress 09/01/21 to 08/31/22
Outputs
Target Audience:The foundation for reaching a diverse target audience is SMILE's afterschool STEM Clubs, which serve over 500 students in 6th - 12th grade, from populations that are historically underrepresented and underserved in STEM. SMILE Clubs are weekly, afterschool club meetings and annual events, including community-based Family Math and Science Nights and a College Connection Challenge that brings students onto campus. Due to the pandemic, all events have moved to a virtual format. Demographics for the 2021-2022 school year: Elementary School: 205 students. Middle School: 160 students. High School: 85 students. 55% of students identify as female, 93% are from low-income families, and 75% are from student would be the first person in their family to attend college. Racial/Ethnicity self-identification: 41% Latino/a, 39% white, 12% multiracial, 8% Indigenous/Native American/Alaska Native. Changes/Problems:The pandemic continued to be a challenge logistically due to the resulting shut-down of the University and of K-12 schools. We were able to provide virtual professional development to educators offer the Challenge virtually but have not been able to offer an in-person Challenge to students yet. With communities resuming in-person education and events, we are planning for in-person Challenge events to be held between April 11 - 18, 2023. As our no-cost extension has been approved through June 2023, we expect to be able to complete the in-person portions of the grant project in spring 2023. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?2021 Summer Teacher Workshop (29 teachers) - held in-person from Monday, August 2 - Wednesday, August 4, 2021. Teachers worked with program staff in a session to develop the Challenge objectives, lessons, and requirements around logging activities and student participation. January Teacher Workshop (48 teachers) - held virtually on Friday, January 28, 2022, due to pandemic. The workshop had a session preparing the teachers for the upcoming. Challenge-specific teacher professional development workshops were held online on Tuesday, March 29, 2022 for elementary school teachers and online on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 for middle and high school teachers. 43 teachers from 32 schools participated. May Teacher Workshop (34 teachers) - held in-person on Friday, May 6 - Saturday, May 7, 2022. Teachers provided feedback on the Challenge. Several teachers reported that Challenges were a main reason their students continue to participate and were a great way to support their students. While the teachers who participated in the Challenge thought it went well, the feedback was that Challenge events work best in-person and they were looking forward to spring 2023. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?All virtual professional development workshops, curriculum, and Challenge resources and outputs were offered virtually through our SMILE website. Additional resources and community networking opportunities are shared with the teachers through a password-protected site. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?For the remainder of this grant, we are planning to fully return to hosting in-person Challenges in spring 2023. Jessica Jansen at Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom has identified the themes for the final round of lessons and virtual field trips. We are also submitting a re-budget request in order to sub-contract with Timelooper, a developer of virtual reality and augmented reality apps that are successfully being used to educate students on agricultural topics on USDA award #2021-67037-33379. If approved, we would work with Timelooper to develop an app on food security and food safety, which would be disseminated through the Oregon State University Precollege Program's and the Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom's networks to educators and students across Oregon and rural Washington. We are currently meeting with our school partners and planning for an in-person teacher workshop to prepare for the Challenge events. Beaver Hangouts will continue the virtual delivery of content to K-12 students by OSU food science undergraduate students.
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What was accomplished under these goals?
Based on teacher input on the Challenge objectives, lessons, and participation logging requirements during the 2021 Summer Teacher Workshop (held Monday, August 2 - Wednesday, August 4, 2021), program staff developed the materials, videos, and activities during fall 2021. SMILE Challenge Resources (materials and videos) are available at: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1ROKBDlx7VP7LsLGIbAQaFBZkUuJ51miB Due to the Omicron surge in winter 2022, both the teacher professional development sessions and the Challenge event were held virtually. During the 2022 Winter Teacher Workshop (held virtually on Friday, January 28, 2022), program staff presented an overview of the Challenge and accompanying materials to the teachers. Teachers participating in the Challenge attended virtual workshops on the logistics of the event in two sessions in March 2022: one for elementary school teachers (March 29) and the other for middle and high school teachers (March 30). The Challenge was open to all elementary, middle, and high schools participating in the SMILE Program across the state, with 475 students from 32 schools participating. The theme of the Challenge was "Natural Disasters and Food Security."
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Progress 09/01/20 to 08/31/21
Outputs
Target Audience:The foundation for reaching a diverse target audience is SMILE's afterschool STEM Clubs, which serve over 400 students in 6th - 12th grade, from populations that are historically underrepresented and underserved in STEM. STEM Clubs are weekly, afterschool club meetings and annual events, including community-based Family Math and Science Nights and a College Connection Challenge that brings students onto campus. Due to the pandemic, all events have moved to a virtual format. Demographics for the 2019-2020 school year: Middle School: 260 students. 54% female, 90% low-income, 81% first generation, 32% Latino/a, 43% white, 12% Native American, 13% multiracial, and 2% other. High School: 146 students. 67% female, 95% low-income, 80% first generation, 45% Latino/a, 28% white, 10% Native American, and 1% other. Changes/Problems:The pandemic continues to be a challenge logistically due to the resulting shut-down of the University and of K-12 schools. We were able to provide virtual professional development to educators but have not been able to offer an in-person Challenge to students. With the no-cost extension through June 2022, we hope to be able to complete the in-person portions of the grant project starting in 2022. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Due to the global pandemic, the planned 2021 spring events that would have brought the SMILE students and teachers to campus were, again, cancelled. We were, however, able to deliver curriculum to teachers in a virtual professional development session. Link to Professional Development site with 2021 content: https://precollege.oregonstate.edu/virtual-professional-development-teachers How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?All virtual professional development workshops, student field trips, and curriculum were offered virtually through our SMILE website. Additional resources and community networking opportunities are shared with the teachers through a password-protected site. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?For the final year of this grant, we expect to fully return to hosting in-person middle school challenges in spring 2022. Jessica Jansen at Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom has identified the themes for the final round of lessons and virtual field trips. We are currently meeting with our school partners and planning for a virtual fall teacher workshop and hope to offer an in-person teacher workshop in January 2022. Beaver Hangouts will continue the virtual delivery of content to K-12 students by OSU food science undergraduate students.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
November 2020 FST Lessons and Professional Development: Due to COVID and the resulting shift to online learning the FST course was not taught. We worked with food science partners to create content and deliver it to teachers, virtually. With no students to develop, pilot, and refine the curriculum/challenges, we focused on developing two hands-on lessons instead of the 6-8 initially proposed. All materials were packaged for individual students and over 500 kits were sent to student's homes through school districts. The lessons created--Cold Fermentation for Bread Baking (11/12/2020) and What Makes Food Spoil (11/19/2020) and resulting virtual teacher PDs can be found here: https://precollege.oregonstate.edu/fall-2020-virtual-professional-development-teachers These lessons used what we learned in our initial virtual lesson from Spring 2020 with the OSU Agricultural Science Ambassadors, and OAITC. These virtual PD can be found here: https://precollege.oregonstate.edu/spring-2020-virtual-professional-development-teachers Feedback: We tracked student feedback from online SMILE teacher logs. These lessons where run in two different ways--SMILE teacher facilitated through a virtual SMILE club meeting, or asynchronously with students discussing results at virtual SMILE club meetings. While attendance for virtual SMILE club meetings has been lower than in non-COVID years the majority of teachers reported that the lessons were completed by students. Teachers reported that students enjoyed the lesson because they were able to eat the products. Based on this feedback we will be producing more kits for these lessons and sending them our elementary students after our teacher professional development workshop in January 2021. Lessons learned: These lessons used what we learned in our initial virtual lesson from Spring 2020 with the OSU Agricultural Science Ambassadors, and OAITC. These virtual PD can be found here: https://precollege.oregonstate.edu/spring-2020-virtual-professional-development-teachers The main lesson is that individual kits need to be produced in order for them to be distributed to students at home and the best way to distribute them to students is using existing systems that districts have put in place. This is even more important with the rural school districts where we have SMILE clubs where students routinely live far away from school. 12/07/2020 - TMK Creamery Virtual Farm Field Trip (Middle/High School). The virtual field trip lasted 45 minutes via Zoom webinar and had opportunities for questions throughout. There were 44 middle/high school classes with 286 students registered for the event and 76 live attendees. However, as some attendees were teachers sharing their screen with their classrooms, the estimated middle/high school student impact was 101 students. Feedback: six educators completed the post field-trip evaluation. 100% indicated they would like to participate in similar experiences in the future. Lessons learned: The management of questions based on feedback from previous field trips went well. Previous feedback has indicated the desire to make it more personal by asking as many questions as possible. Due to the smaller group of participants and plenty of time for questions- tour hosts were able to answer a vast majority of the questions asked. Students asked over 100 questions during the event. Unfortunately, due to a technical issue on the part of Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom, the field trip was not recorded or broadcast to YouTube. The cause of the issue was identified, and steps will be taken to avoid this in the future. 01/30/2021--Virtual Winter Teacher Professional Development Workshop We ran a virtual teacher PD workshop of all SMILE teachers on January 30, 2021. In coordination with this workshop, we sent kits out to all SMILE clubs and teachers. These kits connected to the existing lessons that we had developed over the course of this grant with OSU Agricultural Science Ambassadors, OAITC, and our partners in the food science department. SMILE teachers had requested more individualized kits to distribute to their SMILE students to be used in conjunction with virtual SMILE club meetings and in their classrooms. We sent out over 500 more kits to ES, MS, HS SMILE teachers. Feedback: We tracked student feedback from online SMILE teacher logs. These lessons where run in different ways--SMILE teacher facilitated through a virtual SMILE club meeting, asynchronously with students discussing results at virtual SMILE club meetings, or virtually in their classroom. Teachers reported that they liked the hands-on nature of the lessons and that kits were easy to distribute to students since they were individually packed with all materials included. Lessons learned: Lesson plans could be updated to be clearer and translated into Spanish to provide more resources for parents who are helping to deliver the lessons in many cases. 02/24/2021 - Live Local Organics Aquaponics (Elementary School, 3-5 Grades). The virtual field trip was 30 minutes long. There were 77 elementary classes with 1,760 students registered for the event and 694 live attendees. As some attendees were teachers sharing their screens with their classrooms, the full student impact is difficult to calculate. Additionally, the recording of the event has 456 views, to date. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ClQPACIDXU Feedback: 22 participants completed a survey after the field trip, 19 elementary teachers, 1 informal educator, and 3 "other." Pre-Event Communication: 86% Excellent, 14% Pretty Good Length of the Presentation: 95% Excellent, 5% Pretty Good Content in the Presentation: 100% Excellent Likely to participate in a similar tour in the future: 86% Strongly Agree, 5% Agree, 9% Strongly Disagree Lessons learned: There were complaints about the camera work, from panning and close-ups to adjusting the sharpness of the image, which we will improve on future events. Some participants had difficulties with the chat feature, which will be covered in more detail on future virtual events. 03/16/2021 - Willamette Egg Farms (Elementary School, Kindergarten-5th Grades). There were two field trips held on the same day: one was for K - 2nd, the second for 3rd - 5th grades. Combined, the two events had 47 elementary classrooms with 838 students registered. As some teachers shared their screens with classroom, actual attendee numbers are difficult to calculate. Kindergarten-2nd Grades: The virtual field trip was 19 minutes long, with 120 live attendees, and 34 additional views. Video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndjIKa9MmY0 3rd -5th Grades: The virtual field trip was 26 minutes long, with 449 live attendees, and 121 additional views. Video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I6fu8ARTeo Feedback: 21 participants completed a survey after the field trip, 20 elementary teachers and 1 homeschool teacher. Pre-Event Communication: 86% Excellent, 14% Pretty Good Length of the Presentation: 81% Excellent, 14% Pretty Good, 5% Neutral Content in the Presentation: 52% Excellent, 18% Pretty Good, 29% Neutral Likely to participate in a similar tour in the future: 57% Strongly Agree, 33% Agree, 5% Neutral, 5% Strongly Disagree Lessons learned: Critiques included: too much talking for the ages of students, not having any examples or real-world applications to go with the topics discussed, and a lack of an actual tour of the space. This feedback is being incorporated to improve future field trips. Virtual Field Days: April 27, 28, 20 and May 5, 6, 2021. We provided schools with materials for four virtual activities each day. Activities included: teaching students to build their own edible soil profiles, tasting different varieties of honey while learning about pollination, and the agricultural origins of everyday favorites like potato chips. 53 schools participated with 1,009 students.
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Progress 09/01/19 to 08/31/20
Outputs
Target Audience:The foundation for reaching a diverse target audience is SMILE's 26 afterschool STEM clubs (16 MS10 HS) serving over 400 students, in grades 6-12 from populations historically underrepresented and underserved in STEM through weekly, after afterschool club meetings, and annual events including community-based Family Math and Science Nights and a College Connection Challenge that brings students onto campus. Demographics for the 2019-20 school year: Middle School: 260 students, 54% female, 90% low-income, 81% first-generation, 32% Latino, 43% White, 12% American Indian/Native American, 13% Multiracial and 2% Other. High School:146 students, 67% female, 95% low-income, 80% first-generation, 45% Latino, 28% White, 10% American Indian/Native American, and 1% Other. Changes/Problems: The major changes are in response to the Covid 19 virus global pandemic and the resulting shut down of K-12 schools and the University. We were able to adapt to provide virtual professional development but not direct delivery to K-12 students. We have developed plans to deliver direct programming to K-12 students virtually in the fall. Virtual professional development sessions for teachers in the fall. We will ask for a no cost-extension for the planned spring programs. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Due to the global pandemic, the planned spring events that would have brought the SMILE students and teachers to campus were canceled. We were, however, able to deliver curriculum to teachers in a virtual professional development session. Link to Professional Development: https://precollege.oregonstate.edu/virtual-professional-development-teachers How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? As noted previously all spring events were canceled due to the global pandemic, the planned spring events that would bring K-12 students, Ag Science undergraduates, Ag Scientists, and teachers together was not possible. We had submitted a proposal to NACTA for the June 2020 conference in New Mexico that was accepted but the conference was canceled. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Dr. Zhenglun Li (Food Sciences and Technology), Dr. Haley Traini (Assistant Professor and Director of the College of Agricultural Leaders Fellows), and Jessica Jansen (Executive Director of Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom) have identified the themes for the next round of lessons and virtual field trips. We are meeting with our school partners and planning for virtual teacher workshops in the fall as well as virtual delivery of content to K-12 students by OSU food science undergraduates through our virtual platform, Beaver Hangouts. We have a teacher workshops scheduled for January 2021. We are planning (tentatively) to hold spring events that bring K-12 students and OSU undergraduates together in the spring of 2021.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Collaborated with Dr. Zhenglun Li and undergraduates in his FST 385 Communicating Food and Fermentation Science who designed and delivered three food science lessons to teachers in a virtual professional development for teachers titled, Exploring Food Science, Safety and Nutrition: https://precollege.oregonstate.edu/virtual-professional-development-teachers Designed and facilitated one virtual field trip: https://youtu.be/IGWdGYkR7gc Total number of students: 498 ? Total number of classrooms: 20 ? Participating Schools: Chiloquin Elementary School, Tom McCall Elementary School, St. Mary's Academy, Territorial Elementary School, Helix School, Luckiamute Valley Charter School, Falls City Elementary School, Annex Charter School, Portland Christian Elementary School, Chehalem Elementary School, Yankton Arthur Academy, North Albany Elementary School, Powell Valley Elementary School, West Union Elementary School, Central Linn Elementary School, Creslane Elementary School, Homeschool (Glide, OR), Monroe Grade School, Morning Star Christian School o Towns/Cities: Chiloquin, Redmond, The Dalles, Junction City, Helix, Dallas, Falls City, Ontario, Portland, Beaverton, St. Helens, Tangent, Gresham, Hillsboro, Halsey, Creswell, Glide, Monroe, Bend o Counties: Klamath, Deschutes, Wasco, Lane, Umatilla, Polk, Malheur, Multnomah, Washington, Columbia, Linn, Douglas, Benton The curriculum is accessible on OSU's Precollege Programs website: https://precollege.oregonstate.edu/virtual-professional-development-teachers and Oregon Agriculture in the Classrooms website: https://oregonaitc.org/programs/virtual-farm-field-trips/
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