More than 70 University of Miami faculty, staff, and students served as judges at the Miami-Dade Science and Engineering Expo last month at the Miami Dade College North Campus Science Complex.
During the Expo, elementary, middle, and high school students competed in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics through the South Florida Regional Science and Engineering Fair, the Elementary Science Fair, and the Science, Engineering, Communication, Mathematics Enhancement (SECME) Olympiad and Festival.
Above: The chief of police (far left) and Miami-Dade County Public Schools superintendent (fourth from right) stand with faculty, staff, and doctoral students from the Promoting Science among English Language Learners (P-SELL) research project of the School of Education. From left to right are Charles Hurley, chief of police for Miami-Dade County Public Schools; Okhee Lee, professor of teaching and learning at UM’s School of Education and principal investigator of P-SELL; Jaime Maerten-Rivera; Kimberly Lanier; Resma Kittrell; Georgina Lindskoog; Rose Rohrer; Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho; Brandon Diamond; Ryan Pontier; and Anne Corrine Huggins.
