This summer, New Mexico Tech is offering a variety of IN-PERSON, accelerated courses, and workshops for... you guessed it, teachers! And great news, we offer scholarships that cover 90% of tuition AND we offer free on-campus housing!
Below you will find a list of the upcoming courses and their descriptions. For more information about summer education, please contact Megha Khandelwal (megha.khandelwal@nmt.edu).
Visit our Teacher Education Programs webpage to get more information on our programs and admission requirements.
June 5-16
Survey of Geology
K-12 Teachers
Campus Housing & 90% scholarship availability
This course covers the fundamentals of geosciences, including field-based training in how and why geology “works.” Mandatory field trips will introduce participants to the essentials of the study of Earth Materials, with classroom sessions discussing the origin of the Earth, its landforms, and Materials.
June 20-24
Survey of Physics
K-12 Teachers
Campus Housing & 90% scholarship availability
Explore Newton’s three Laws of Motion in this laboratory course. Hands-on, class time experiments are supplemented with assigned readings.
*Advanced math not required*
July 6-8
Rockin’ Around NM
K-12 Teachers
Hotel housing & scholarships are available
Explore local geology, including volcanic rocks and hazards, seismic hazards, mountain-building processes, and mineral resources. Two days of the three-
day course will be spent in the field, following an introductory day comprising geologic exercises and lecture presentations. Each year, a different New Mexico community hosts this course, co-sponsored by the New Mexico Bureau of Geology. Comprehensive/ concentration area: Geology
June 6-10 and choose from: July 11-15, 18-22, 25-29
CS Buzz
**Middle & High School Teachers**
Scholarships and additional stipends are available
The course is a two-week-long, on-campus class held during the summer. The MST graduate students will learn different topics in Computer Science, such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, robotics, visualizations, etc., and teach these topics in one of the one-week summer camps hosted by the Computer Science Department.
June 20-24
ASM Materials Camp
K-12 Teachers
Campus Housing & 90% scholarship availability
During this one-week workshop, teacher participants will learn the basics of Materials Science Technology as taught at the high school level. They will work hands-on with metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites, and will develop a greater appreciation for the importance of these materials to modern life. The teachers will see how this heavily project-based course excites students to learn science concepts as they complete projects of personal worth to them. Whether teachers use the information and concepts as a basis for teaching their own MST course or merely infuse the concepts into an existing science course to increase relevance, they will finish the week prepared to make some important instructional changes as a result of their participation.
July 18-29
The DNA Sequencing Revolution
K-12 Teachers
Campus Housing & 90% scholarship availability
Bioinformatics represents one of the fastest-growing fields in the life sciences and dealing with the massive data sets that are now commonplace requires comfort and confidence in computational techniques couched in biological understanding.
For beginner Bioinformaticians, the barrier to entry is extremely steep, as most students have trouble traversing both Biological and Computational knowledge bases. This course will provide an introduction to Bioinformatics and the DNA Sequencing Revolution for Master of Science for Teachers graduate students at New Mexico Tech, in which teacher-students learn the why along with the how.
To accomplish this, the course will begin with low-throughput, browser-based tools that can open the world to the new user, progressing each day up to simple, but high-throughput command-line tools. The course will culminate with the SNP detection pipeline, accomplished on the RMACC Summit supercomputing cluster housed at CU Boulder.
The course is designed for science teaching graduate students (BIOL 535/BIOT 535) of all skill levels in all disciplines. Students will complete daily tasks designed to ensure basic competence and familiarity with essential bioinformatic functions (e.g., sequence alignment, quality control, read mapping, variant calling) and to introduce exciting new methodologies. Students will also write reflections each day, thinking about how they can employ the previous day’s methods in their own classrooms.