Topic: STEM, teamwork, and your future!
Speaker: Will Boyd of the Homeschool Institute of Science
The science education world is abuzz with the new paradigm of STEM (Science, technology, engineering, math). Economists and educators alike seem to be likewise obsessed with developing and training the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs. What do all of these efforts, initiatives, books, articles, and opinions have in common? They are talking about you. They want to impact you. They want to train and develop and motivate and direct YOU! In this hour long workshop we will explore the importance of teamwork, develop a fuller understanding of what STEM really is, and give you some perspective and encouragement as you prepare to enter a rapidly changing work and education world.
Will has lived in the Palouse region of North Idaho for around ten years. He and his wife Liz are blessed with five sons, Cyrus, Owen, Abraham, Shepherd, and Amos (ages 9 years down to 5 months). Will grew up near the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and attended college at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where he earned a B.S. in Biology (2000) and minors in Chemistry and Conservation Biology. Through his undergraduate years he participated in numerous biological field studies in fun places like the Bering Sea, Alaska's North Slope, Western North Carolina, and the Cuyahoga River Valley of Ohio. He also interned for the Smithsonian’s Conservation Research Center, where he led an effort studying giant eland reproduction and spent a season caring for and studying wallabies, kangaroos, and other marsupials at the Macquarie University Marsupial Fauna Park near Sydney, Australia.
Will has worked in science education for over fifteen years in various capacities including: as the education director of a public lands advocacy organization, science chair and teacher at Montrose Christian Academy in Moscow, ID, and as an instructor at the University of Idaho. He recently earned a Secondary Science teaching endorsement from the University of Idaho and an M.S. in Natural Resources from the same institution. He is the founder and board president of the Homeschool Institute of Science (HIS, Inc.) and he absolutely loves encouraging and inspiring his sons and others whom he teaches to explore God's great Creation! For more on HIS visit www.homeschoolscienceinstitute.org and www.facebook.com/HisIncCFHE
Will has lived in the Palouse region of North Idaho for around ten years. He and his wife Liz are blessed with five sons, Cyrus, Owen, Abraham, Shepherd, and Amos (ages 9 years down to 5 months). Will grew up near the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and attended college at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where he earned a B.S. in Biology (2000) and minors in Chemistry and Conservation Biology. Through his undergraduate years he participated in numerous biological field studies in fun places like the Bering Sea, Alaska's North Slope, Western North Carolina, and the Cuyahoga River Valley of Ohio. He also interned for the Smithsonian’s Conservation Research Center, where he led an effort studying giant eland reproduction and spent a season caring for and studying wallabies, kangaroos, and other marsupials at the Macquarie University Marsupial Fauna Park near Sydney, Australia.
Will has worked in science education for over fifteen years in various capacities including: as the education director of a public lands advocacy organization, science chair and teacher at Montrose Christian Academy in Moscow, ID, and as an instructor at the University of Idaho. He recently earned a Secondary Science teaching endorsement from the University of Idaho and an M.S. in Natural Resources from the same institution. He is the founder and board president of the Homeschool Institute of Science (HIS, Inc.) and he absolutely loves encouraging and inspiring his sons and others whom he teaches to explore God's great Creation! For more on HIS visit www.homeschoolscienceinstitute.org and www.facebook.com/HisIncCFHE
