CHIS&E INTRODUCES FIRST GRADE STUDENTS TO ALGEBRAIC CONCEPTS Imagine 1st grade students being introduced to algebraic concepts. Hard to believe but it’s true. ChiS&E recognizes children’s ability to grasp concepts at an early age. So they’ve developed a curriculum for students beginning at age six that will instill mathematical thinking. ChiS&E students learn what mathematicians [...]
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2016 NEWSLETTER
admin Education, Newsletter September 9, 2016 Chicago Pre-College Science and Engineering Program
Over 300 students from more than 25 Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and charter schools in grades K-6 participate in ChiS&E’s free Saturday programs. The programs offer highly engaging, hands-on activities with their parents by their sides (a program requirement except for grade 4). READ ENTIRE NEWSLETTER
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MAGNIFICENT PROGRAM …
admin Education, News September 8, 2016 Chicago Pre-College Science and Engineering Program
MAGNIFICENT PROGRAM … ChiS&E was honored to have Dr.Timothy L. Killeen, incoming president of the University of Illinois, deliver the keynote address at the Spring 2015 Parent Orientation and Registration at the University of Illinois-Chicago. First addressing the parents, he spoke about the importance of starting early and staying engaged, as well as pragmatic reasons [...]
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PROGRAM UPDATE The Chicago Pre-College Science and Engineering Program (ChiS&E) is growing! Now in its 7th year, the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) program serving students in grades K-6th began in 2009 with 60 1st grade students and has added a grade level ever since. Fourth grade was added in 2012, and in 2014 [...]
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PARTNERSHIP The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) and the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is collaborating with ChiS&E in developing a pipeline of students from CPS into science and engineering programs at the University, among the most competitive in the nation. In May, 2014 at the onset of [...]
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STAKEHOLDERS/SPONSORS “ANGELS” LIST GROWS
admin Education October 8, 2015 Albert Pick, Andrew Hesselbach, BP, Chicago Pre-College Science and Engineering Program, Colonel Stanley McNeil Foundation, Jr. Fund, Motorola Solutions Foundation, Peoples Gas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF)
STAKEHOLDERS/SPONSORS “ANGELS” LIST GROWS As ChiS&E approaches the end of its 7th year of providing free Saturday classes for Chicago Public School (CPS) students and their parents, it is reminded that it could not do the work it does without the generous support of foundations and corporations in agreement with the principles of the organization. [...]
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MORE THAN 700 ENTHUSIASTIC PARENTS AND STUDENTS TURN OUT FOR CHIS&E FALL ORIENTATION
admin Education, News October 8, 2015 Chicago Pre-College Science and Engineering Program, Dr. Irving McPhail, National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MORE THAN 700 ENTHUSIASTIC PARENTS AND STUDENTS TURN OUT FOR CHIS&E FALL ORIENTATION On Saturday, September 19th Dr. Irving McPhail, president of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) spoke to an overflow crowd of enthusiastic students and parents interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. Literally hundreds of parents and children [...]
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ENGINEERING AT ILLINOIS PARTNERS WITH CHIS&E FOR CHICAGO PRE-COLLEGE PROGRAM The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Engineering is one of many universities nationwide with efforts to expand its reach to underrepresented students. To that end, Engineering at Illinois is partnering with Chicago Pre-College Science and Engineering (Chi S&E), with the objective of preparing [...]
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