The Rice Office of STEM Engagement (R-STEM) supports and promotes Rice University's wide-ranging efforts to improve K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in all Greater Houston Area school districts. We are proud to serve as the central point of contact for school districts, parents, students, nonprofit organizations, university faculty, and others in the Greater Houston Area regarding various STEM outreach programs and events at Rice.
Black girls benefit most when STEM teachers train up
When middle and high school teachers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics pursue continuing professional development, their students benefit, and a new study from Rice University shows the payoff can be dramatic.
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An Analysis of the Effect of Long-Term Professional Development on Teacher Engineering Self-Efficacy and Its Impact on Classroom Instruction
How R-STEM's NEWT NEET course impacts teachers' self efficacy.
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Virtual toolbox jumpstarts Rice STEM programs online
The Rice Office of STEM Engagement has added a virtual platform, making STEM education more accessible.
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A STEM solution for educational disparity
The educational need in Houston is great, but R-STEM and Carolyn Nichol are doing their best to help solve the problem.
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R-STEM strives to provide quality professional development to K–12 STEM teachers in the greater Houston area. Since 2006, R-STEM has increasingly grown its program base and teaching staff to allow us to serve more teachers and students, and to continually broaden the greater impacts of STEM education as an integral part of K–12 education.
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Contact Information
Telephone: (713) 348-8211
Fax: (713) 348-3825
stem@rice.edu
Mailing Address
Office of STEM Engagement
Rice University
P.O. Box 1892, MS-7836
Houston, TX 77251-1892
Street Address
IBC Plaza Houston
5615 Kirby Dr.
Suite 730
Houston, TX 77005-2445