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Think Like a Teacher: What makes a successful student?

 

Whether you’re in high school or college, there will be times when learning feels amazing, and times when it’s a humbling experience. But it will always be worth the effort. So what’s the secret to achieving your personal best? While there’s no simple formula, most teachers agree that certain qualities are essential for academic success. Here are some of their pro tips.

 

Show Up and Manage Your Time

Let’s begin with a couple of basics: Go to class and pay attention. Getting there on time shows respect for your teacher and your peers. Manage your time so you can get to school, keep your focus when you’re there, and do the homework and studying necessary to perform well. Once you’re in class, tune in. Keeping your focus can be tough when there are so many potential distractions, from social media to your personal life. If you feel your mind beginning to wander, rein it in.

ON TOPIC

Maryrose Barrios, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Maryrose Barrios is a physics PhD student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research is within the field of atomic physics, where she studies the quantum effects of ultracold atoms. An aspiring professor, she’s also committed to helping advance underrepresented students in STEM through education. Maryrose is a member of the Tule River Band of Yokuts in California. She has been a member of AISES since her undergraduate years at UC Berkeley. When she’s not in the lab, she enjoys hiking with her dog, scuba diving, and playing on the Georgia Tech Women’s Water Polo Team.

 

What do you hope your teachers would have to say about you?

 

I hope they would say that I’m teachable. I mean that in the sense that I would want them to see that I’m eager to learn, and happy to hear how I could improve my understanding. I believe that the best students are the ones who want to grow and do better, not necessarily the ones who are always the top performers. I would hope also they see that I try to be a respectful person. I always appreciate students who are respectful of my time and the right of other students to learn in the classroom. I think we as Native peoples tend to value respect, and that can translate really well to the classroom and lab environment as students and educators.

 

Do you often meet with your teachers or advisor?

 

As a graduate student, meetings with advisors can sometimes look different. For me, my lab is rather small so I see my advisor regularly, and we discuss the experiment I work on daily. That type of immediate feedback can be really helpful in guiding our lab’s efforts. When I was an undergraduate, however, I definitely found it harder to meet with my research advisor or a professor, mostly because I was shy and didn’t always feel confident about going to their offices. The higher up in your education you go though, the easier it becomes to interact with professors. Research really helped me build that confidence too, because you feel like you’re part of a team and you have more authority to be there and ask questions.

PRE-COLLEGE OPPORTUNITIES

 

CATALYST Academy is a one-week residential program for rising high school juniors and seniors from underrepresented backgrounds who desire to learn about engineering and careers within an interactive milieu.

 

Curie Academy is a one-week residential program for high school girls who excel in math and science. The focus is on rising juniors and seniors who may not have had prior opportunities to explore engineering but want to learn more about it in an interactive atmosphere.

 

The Heard Museum Guild Student Art Show & Sale invites American Indian student artists throughout North America to enter their original art for exhibition and sale to museum members and the visiting public.

 

Through a series of plenary sessions, keynote addresses from industry leaders, and breakout sessions, the 2020 Conference will be dedicated to reviewing current capacity in STEM and generate a vision for the future for preparing girls and women of color to thrive.

 

NCWIT Aspirations in Computing (AiC) Award Recognitions offers three distinct awards that honor aspirations, abilities, technical accomplishments, and influential guidance in computing. Help NCWIT spread the word to 9th-12th grade students and college students who self-identify as women, genderqueer, or non-binary; and to the educators who support them.

 

Denver, CO - U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Students 18 and older interested in wildlife conservation and environmental stewardship are encouraged to apply for paid internship with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Thirty internships are currently available across the country. In addition to getting paid, students gain knowledge and experience working with the largest conservation system in the world.

 

NIFA recently announced three Immune Reagents for Agricultural Animals grant awards to develop publicly available, reasonably priced, and readily accessible essential immunological reagents needed to study challenges affecting the health, management, and production of agriculturally relevant animals.

 

 


UNDERGRADUATE OPPORTUNITIES

 

Interns are being sought for full-time summer internship employment to help plan device deployment and testing within tribal lands and native communities nationwide.

 

The ACS Scholars Program awards renewable scholarships to underrepresented minority students majoring in undergraduate chemistry-related disciplines and who are also intending to pursue careers in chemistry-related fields.

 

Summer internships available for Native American and other college students with funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). This program provides the opportunity for students to gain hands-on skills with EPA or other governmental and tribal environmental offices.

 

The Native American Research Internship is a dynamic summer research opportunity for Native American undergraduate junior and senior students who are interested in Health Science research. The internship is located at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah.

 

The WW Graduate School is a new kind of master’s degree in education. It’s personalized to a candidate's skills and knowledge. It focuses on what they need to know to meet the challenges of today’s classrooms—and to shape tomorrow’s classrooms, too.

 

The NW NARCH is operated by the EpiCenter at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIH), an Indian organization uniquely qualified to administer NARCH based on an active membership of all 43 Northwest Indian Tribes in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.

 

The 33rd National Conference on Race & Ethnicity (NCORE) is right around the corner and we cannot wait to share it with you. We invite you to share your important work with us to consider for NCORE 2020 programming.

 

With the support of DELL Technologies, CSforALL will host a one-day Facilitator Workshop followed by a two-day SCRIPT Workshop to guide School District Teams in the application of a framework to create customized implementation plans for computer science education for their district/state.

 

GO PLACES WITH AISES

 

AISES is currently seeking engaging and innovative session proposals focused on leadership development designed to support Native students and professionals on their academic and career journeys.

 

The 2020 NAISEF will be both an in-person and virtual science fair held at Oklahoma State University on April 4, 2020! NAISEF winners will receive cash prizes and the Grand Award winner for the Senior Division will receive a chance to participate in the ISEF from May 10-15, 2020 in Anaheim, Calif.

 

Energy Challenge (EC) is an energy-specific science and engineering fair for American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian (AI/AN/NH) high school and middle school students. EC has two aims: (1) identify an energy-related problem that directly affects students and/or their community; (2) create possible solutions using creative, hands-on, problem solving, engineering processes. Energy solutions are created through a two-phase process.

SAVE THE DATE

 

Feb. 16-18, 2020

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Oct. 15-17, 2020

Spokane, WA

VIDEO SPOTLIGHT

 

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RESOURCES FOR AISES MEMBERS

 

Are you looking to get some advice or share your own secrets to good grades? Check out an where you can learn from and even mentor fellow students!

 

ONLINE RESOURCES


GRADUATE/POSTDOC OPPORTUNITIES

 

The Ecohydrology and Watershed Science group at N.C. State University seeks a creative, motivated PhD student with interests in assessing impacts of climate change and land use change on terrestrial water and carbon cycles and/or evaluating datasets and methodologies used for environmental justice policy.

 

The Coconino County Education Service Agency is partnering with Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University on a proposal to the National Science Foundation to fund Project Co-STEM. We are looking for prospective Advisory Board Members to provide guidance and insight on the project development and implementation.

 

This program provides funding for American Indian/Alaska Native graduate students conducting scientific research under the supervision of an academic mentor.

 

New York, N.Y. - Science Publishing Group

We invite scholars and researchers to submit papers to the journals or to join the editorial board or reviewer team.

 

College Park, M.D. - APS Guest Speaker Grant

Physics and physical science departments at minority-serving institutions (MSIs) or community colleges can apply for a $1,000 grant to bring guest speakers to their institution for colloquium or seminar presentations.

 

 

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OUR MISSION: The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) is a national nonprofit organization focused on substantially increasing the representation of American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, First Nations, and other Indigenous peoples of North America in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) studies and careers.

 

 

 

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