Introducing the North Carolina Science, Mathematics and Technology Education Center!

The North Carolina Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education Center (SMT Center) has a new website: www.ncsmt.org, designed to provide information, support and contacts for North Carolina’s educators, parents, and students. On the site you’ll find the background and mission of the SMT Center, information about the Center’s new Teacher Link program, a calendar of events, news, and links to other web sites, both local and national, that provide resources in the sciences. Coming soon will be an inventory containing a comprehensive listing of programs and resources in North Carolina that support science, mathematics, and technology education. This inventory will be a resource for parents, teachers, and program directors.

The SMT Center’s web site is a major vehicle for disseminating information about science education and for pulling together information from existing science-related programs throughout the state. The Center hopes the new site will eventually become “one-stop shopping” for all you need to know about teaching and learning science, mathematics, and technology.

The SMT Center was launched in 2002 to help North Carolina achieve its vision of having the best public schools in the nation by 2010. The Center’s mission is to systematically improve performance in science, mathematics and technology pre K-12 education. Working with existing organizations, the Center intends to foster hands-on, research-based science teaching and learning in the classrooms of all North Carolina’s 117 school systems. Dr. Sam Houston, a longtime educator and educational leader and consultant, is the president and CEO of the Center. Dr. Houston will be the keynote speaker at the NCSLA meeting on November 12 at the Koury Convention Center in Greensboro before the NCSTA Professional Development Institute.