Stanford’s Summer Research Program for Teachers offers eight-week research fellowships for middle school, high school and community college teachers working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Teachers work in a Stanford lab four days a week, and meet once a week as a group for science and engineering lectures by Stanford faculty, lab tours, and seminars on teaching.
The purpose of this program is to re-energize teachers, expose them to a broad array of scientific fields, give them in-depth, hands-on research experience, and send them back to their classes filled with more confidence and enthusiasm and increased knowledge about the world of science and engineering research and its applications.
Teachers receive a stipend of $7,200 and are eligible for five units of Stanford Continuing Studies credits and an additional $1,000 in grants. This is an intensive program that requires participants to be on campus 40 hours per week.
Beginning in summer 2010, an RET Site award from the National Science Foundation will fund 8 additional teachers per summer in a complementary program called SERET-Stanford Engineering Research Experience for Teachers. SERET teachers will be incorporated into the Summer Research Program for Teachers but may have slightly different placements and program requirements.
Teachers in both programs apply via our nonprofit partner IISME (Industry Initiatives for Science and Math Education). Information and application can be found at http://iisme.org/AboutSFPApp.cfm.
Kaye Storm, Director