2018 Society Annual Report

SCIENCE NEWS IN HIGH SCHOOLS

SCIENCE NEWS IN HIGH SCHOOLS GROWTH

SNHS 2015-2016 4.8 MILLION

estimated studentswith access to SN HS

2015–2016 School Year

1,741% took our 2017–2018 program survey: 96% said SN HS has impacted their students’ learning, and over 99% said they would recommend SN HS to a colleague. In today’s fast-paced world, science textbooks are out of date almost as soon as they are printed. Through Science News in High Schools, which provides schools with free, sponsored access to Science News , teachers are opening up a whole new world of science for their students. By sharing current news, teachers report they are inspiring their students to engage in science in entirely new ways. Close to 2,600 educators representing about 50% of the participating schools

Roaches as Inspiration

Not every high school student acknowledges the brilliance of a cockroach.

Evains Francois, a junior at Baltimore Polytechnic Acad- emy, studies roaches and designs robots based on their movements. Evains is fully immersed in science research, inspired in part by articles he read through the Science News in High Schools ( SN HS) program. When Evains was a high school sophomore, he loved biology and robotics. He just didn’t know he could combine them. Then, in his Introduction to Research class, he read a Science News article about scientists who had designed more agile underwater robots modeled on the efficient swimming motions of penguins and dolphins. Evains was hooked.

SNHS 2018-2019

2018–2019 School Year

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This is a great program to inspire young people and to enlighten them on the things happening and changing in the world outside. It also provides real life examples and applications of the concepts we learn in class.” BARB GREENMAN Wayland High School Wayland, Michigan

growth in the number of schools served in just 4 years

educators reached 15,000 96%

of teachers who use SN HS reported that the programhas impacted their students’ learning

ROBOTICS IN ACTION Evains Francois works on his robotics project.

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