Westminster's Science in Motion Offers Workshops for Educators

Twelve area secondary educators recently completed biology, physics and chemistry workshops offered by the Westminster College Science in Motion program at no cost to the teachers or their schools.

Participants, who receive four Act 48 hours, included: Juanita Bequeath from Youngstown Christian; Vaughn Jones from Portersville Christian; Tammy Badger from Sharon High School; Diane McGaffic from Kennedy Catholic High School; Bill Hoffman from Neshannock High School; Marge Steen from Sharon High School; Tim Shelenberger from Laurel High School; Hal Repasky from Seneca Valley High School; Lorraine Komorek from Mohawk High School; Marilyn Koskoski from Kennedy Catholic High School; Kate Santry from Neshannock High School, and Chris Cassano from Kennedy Catholic High School.

Westminster will conduct similar workshops for elementary educators April 19 taught by Elementary Mobile Educator Melissa Krenzer.  A series of summer workshops for new and veteran secondary educators are offered June 20-24 taught by  Mobile Educators Stephanie Corrette-Bennett, biology; Floyd Zehr, physics; and Karl Kennedy, chemistry.

In addition to providing workshops for educators, the Science in Motion program brings vans equipped with state-of-the-art laboratory equipment and experiments to area Pennsylvania school students.  The Pennsylvania Department of State funds this project through the Higher Education Basic Education Science and Technology Partnership.

For more information, contact Bernard Durkin, director of the Science in Motion program at Westminster College, at (724) 946-6295 or e-mail durkinbm@westminster.edu.  To view the details of these workshops and complete a registration form, visit the website www.westminster.edu/sim.

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