«return to past eventsCI 2021-22 Back to School RAM

To include: $50 stipend + mileage, lunch & a STEM supply kit

Maps of locations: Tiguex Park, Sawmill Market & Tijeras office

RAM Schedule

9:30-11:30am – start @ Tiquex Park [park on the NW corner by Mountain and 19th street; find us by the picnic tables]

• flow rings, groundwater models & Aquapod water bottle rocket launch
• guest = Lindsey Evans, Friends of the Rio Grande Nature Center
• Groundwater Model Exploration objectives
• Groundwater Exploration Model questions
• Groundwater Exploration Model assessment & cross-curricular integraton

11:30-1pm – LUNCH ($20 giftcards for the Sawmill Market)

1-1:30pm –  continue @ NM MESA State Office => 1015 Tijeras NW

• CI Advisor Contract (signed by kim) & raffle
• loyalty award => n = 169; $135,074 total [CI: n = 50; $39,433; 29%]
• NM MESA program model pdf
• kim: 20-21 recap & 2021-22 overview

1:30-1:50pm – Ling Faith Heuertz, NM MESA Executive Director

1:50-2pm – BREAK

2-2:45pm – MESA advisor STEAM activity

3pm – raffle & adios

* Congratulations to advisor Laura White & the nex+Gen Academy team (Luke Fletcher, Ashton Brace & Luke O’donnell) they placed 3rd at our MESA USA competition June 21-22!!! 

** Welcome to Central Inner region Kristen Griego, Los Lunas High School; Charles Moon, Kennedy Middle School & Tobias MacRobie, South Valley Academy!

See the MESA USA competition websites here:

• state page for team New Mexico MESA USA
• MESA USA YouTube  

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Central Inner recommends…

1. Design Cycle graphic organizer resource (pdf)
2. Mr. Coffee Mug Warmer (email, text or tell kim if you want one!)

3. Making It (season 3 with Amy Poehler & Nick Offerman, on NBC)

4. using your MESA Amazon Business account to order back-to-school STEM thingies [$100 for each school]

   1. note: CI recommends Amazon list
   2. other website orders are also welcome
5. opportunities: see attached NM PED Math & Science Bureau upcoming offerings SY21–22
6. Youth Astronomy Apprentisceship Activity: Astropoetry (4 pages)
7. Heron’s Fountain resources
   1. How to make a non stop Heron’s Fountain (YouTube, 6:43)
   2. University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) – Physics Demonstration Room, Heron’s Fountain
   3. Discharge Coefficient Measurements Using Heron’s Fountain (Journal of Civil Eng. & Architecture, 2019)