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Four Wittenberg Noyce Scholars

FUTURE TEACHER-LEADERS

Helping students like Mikalyn Piccola achieve their goals is what the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program strives to do. Piccola, class of 2027 from Cincinnati, Ohio, along with Riley Boyles, class of 2027 from Ostrander, Ohio, and Olivia Follick, class of 2026 from Vandalia, Ohio, are the latest ASCENT-STEM (Addressing Springfield Community’s STEM Education Needs Together), scholarship recipients.

https://www.wittenberg.edu/news/12-10-25/future-teachers-leaders

STUDENTS CREATE NEW CLASS

On the way home from a unique and fulfilling FIRE Week adventure at the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont (GSMIT), a spark ignited. Right then on the bus ride back, a group of Wittenberg students pursuing teacher licensing generated and successfully pushed the idea for a new class forward that would provide them with further connections to GSMIT.

The Two Students that created their own class.
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OUTDOOR IMMERSION

Charity Perry '25 learns importance of bringing nature to the classroom through her recent FIRE Week experience at the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont (GSMIT) near Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

Additional News

P.I. Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts

  • Daiga, M. and Roth, A. "Recruiting and Retaining STEM Teachers through an Experiential Learning Partnership with the Great Smoky Mountain Institute at Tremont (presentation)"  Annual conference for the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (February 2026) Portland OR.  
  • Daiga, M. "Challenges and Benefits from Launching a Learning Assistant Program (presentation)" Convention for the School Science and Mathematics Association (November 2025) Fort Worth, TX.
  • Daiga, M. and Hessick, M., "Attributes and Knowledge of the Lead Organizer in Planning a Virtual Teacher Professional Development Series: The Case of the Organizer of the Schoolyard Network (paper)" Educ. Sci. (2025) Vol. 15, No. 4, pg. 422.  https://doi.org/10.3390/edusci15040422.   
  • Daiga, M., "Teacher Development through Outdoor Experiential Learning in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park (presentation)" Convention for the School Science and Mathematics Association (2024) Knoxville, TN.
  • Daiga, M. and Parker, A. E., "Implementation of a LA Program at a Small Liberal Arts College (poster)" International Learning Assistant Conference (2024) Boulder, Colorado.

Student Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts

  • Tom, C., Aloi, P., and Hibbits, A., "Influences in Student Participation in F.I.R.E. week (presentation)" Connections Symposium, (2025) Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH.
  • Paumi, J., Boyles, R., and Daiga, M., "Learning Assistant Perspectives: The Case of the First Learning Assistant Teaching Team (poster)" Connections Symposium, (2025) Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH.
  • Clark, M. and LaMar, S., "Inquiry STEM Learning Outdoors: Secondary STEM Preservice Teachers' Experience with the Great Smokey Mountain Institute at Tremont (poster)"  Midwest Noyce Conference, (2024) St. Louis, MO.
  • Hessick, M. and Daiga, M., "Investigating the Leadership of a Sustained Outdoor Education Professional Development Program (presentation)" Convention for the School Science and Mathematics Association (2024) Knoxville, TN.

 

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