UTeaChattanooga Student Attends Science Education Workshop in Ireland

February 14, 2012

UTeaChattanooga student and Noyce scholar, Lisa Berry, has been selected to attend a workshop in Ireland on computational thinking and inquiry-based teaching methods.

UTeaChattanooga, a STEM teacher preparation program modeled after the UTeach program at The University of Texas at Austin, offered its first course in the fall of 2010. Since then, the program has been cultivating amazing pre-service teachers.

Lisa Berry is example of one of these outstanding students. Lisa is a senior majoring in biology at The University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. She is a Noyce Scholar and a non-traditional student with a long career as an ophthalmic technician already on her resume. In addition, she is one of a select group of students chosen from the National Science Foundation’s Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program to attend a workshop in Dublin, Ireland hosted by Shodor and the National Computational Science Institute. The workshop will focus on computational thinking and inquiry-based teaching methods for science educators.

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