T-STEM Conferences & Training Please return often to see professional development opportunities posted by date. T-STEM specific events are featured with a star.  Summer 2008 See T-STEM Summer PD Catalog! Events sponsored by T-STEM Centers June - August Other Opportunities June 24-25 - The Outdoor School Professional Development (Texas Tech University at Junction)   June 23-27 · July 7-11 · July 14-18 · July 21-25 - Rice University AP Summer Institute - Challenging AP and Pre-AP professional development courses.    June 16-20 - Petroleum Exploration &  Production Technology: A STEM Workshop for HS Teachers, Rice University, Houston   July 28 - August 1 - Texas Tech University T-STEM Center Engineering Camp --------------------------------------- April 2008 04/16-17 SHELLS Conference (Science Teacher Education for Hispanic English Language Learners in the Southeast) May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 07/9-11 Texas Regional Collaboratives for Execellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching - 14th Annual Meeting  7/30-31 SAME TEC Conference, Austin August 2008 September

T-STEM Web Seminars Interactive Learning @ Your Desktop Live professional development experiences that use online learning technologies to allow participants to interact with fellow grantees as well as national experts key to STEM education reform.  Click here for descriptions of events. Topics January Data-Driven Decision Making February Student Outreach and Mentoring Data-Driven Decision Making March Innovative Math Programs Teachers as Leaders April Teaching and Learning Strategies  Technology use in STEM May Student Outreach: PreFreshman Engineering  Profiles of Two Successful T-STEM Academies Series will resume in September