GUITAR-BUILDING INSTITUTE TURNING TEACHERS AND STUDENTS INTO  STEM ROCK STARS IN THE CLASSROOM
The National STEM Guitar Project, in partnership with NSF Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Centers with funding provided through a grant from The National Science Foundation (#1304405), hosts innovative Guitar Building Institutes around the United States.  The 5-day institutes, combined with additional instructional activities comprising 80 hours, provide faculty training on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) for middle, high school, and post-secondary faculty. The institutes present and teach participants hands-on, applied learning techniques to help engage students and spark excitement for learning STEM subject matter.guitar-driven event where the newly built, customized guitars will be showcased and the educators are celebrated.     
Past Guitar Building Institutes have included special guest builders and performers such as Rock n Roll Hall of Fame inductees, Don Wilson of The Ventures, Roger Fisher from Heart, world renown guitarist Randy Hansen along with executives with Boeing, EMP Museum and the Office of State Superintendent.  “Rock Star Friday” will be free to the public to attend.
“The Guitar Building Institutes are designed to be sustainable as teachers who participate in the workshop will be tapped to help teach future workshops as a strategy to expand and offer the STEM training to more teachers and students in their communities.”
 “You don’t have to know how to play the guitar to take the workshop, but in bringing these groups together, I have met a number of people who by day are engineers, teachers and other professionals and by night they follow their passion by playing in a band. We want to heighten interest and knowledge of STEM through music.  It’s fun to offer it in a way that combines all of these interests.”

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