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UTC\u2019s UTeaChattanooga, an innovative program designed to inspire math and science teachers, received a $1.2 million award from the National Science Foundation to provide full scholarships for six juniors and seniors annually during the five-year grant.\u00a0 The UTC program has also received national recognition, the highest it can receive, from the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA).<\/p>\n

The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program encourages talented science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors to become secondary mathematics and science teachers.\u00a0 Priority is given to applicants who demonstrate academic merit through both cumulative and content-based GPA.<\/p>\n

UTeaChattanooga is one of many programs across the country replicating the success of UTeach at the University of Texas at Austin, a program that has significantly increased the number of highly qualified high school mathematics and science teachers.\u00a0 UTeaChattanooga offers certification as a secondary mathematics or science teacher in the four years it takes a student to complete a degree in mathematics or science.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur students are preparing lessons and teaching in area classrooms early and often, starting with their first UTeaChattanooga course and throughout the program\u2014in the first course at an elementary school, in the second course in a middle school and in three subsequent courses in high schools.\u00a0 They are taught by experienced high school mathematics and science teachers.\u00a0 And we provide them with two years of support after they complete their programs, in the first two critical years of their teaching careers,\u201d said Dr. Stephen W. Kuhn, co-director of UTeaChattanooga.<\/p>\n

UTeaChattanooga students who earn the Noyce scholarship must commit, upon graduation, to teach in a high needs high school.\u00a0 There are no geographic restrictions and the graduate will be required to teach two years for each year of scholarship support.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe University applied for this competitive grant in spring 2011.\u00a0 We have an appealing program and we had a very strong proposal,\u201d said Dr. Sandy Watson, co-director of UTeaChattanooga.<\/p>\n

The Noyce scholarship program will also provide\u00a0internship opportunities for freshmen and sophomores\u00a0at three National Labs:\u00a0 Brookhaven in Manhattan, New York; Pacific Northwest in Washington State; Oak Ridge in Tennessee and two local organizations, the Tennessee Aquarium and Upward Bound.\u00a0 Student and faculty stipends will support on-campus summer research for up to 18\u00a0freshmen and sophomores in the UTeaChattanooga program each year supporting a total of 80 students across the five-year grant period.<\/p>\n

An additional dedicated scholarship will be made available to students in the UTeaChattanooga program with a donation by Movita Steiner, who honored her late husband and established the John T. Steiner, Sr. Endowed Scholarship.\u00a0 Steiner, who was an engineer, \u201cvalued education tremendously.\u201d\u00a0 In establishing the scholarship, Movita Steiner appreciated the value of having well-trained mathematicians and scientists teaching in the classroom.<\/p>\n

This scholarship will assist UTeaChattanooga students in reducing debt and help them gain a competitive advantage in their future careers.\u00a0 It will be awarded in spring semester.<\/p>\n

\u201cUTeaChattanooga students will be different from most high school math and science teachers in the United States because they will have a degree in the content area (mathematics, biology, geology, physics, chemistry, computer science or engineer) and education training,\u201d Watson said.<\/p>\n

For more information, please visit the UTeaChattanooga website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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UTC\u2019s UTeaChattanooga, an innovative program designed to inspire math and science teachers, received a $1.2 million award from the National Science Foundation to provide full scholarships for six juniors and seniors annually during the five-year grant.\u00a0 The UTC program has also received national recognition, the highest it can receive, from the National Science Teachers Association… <\/p>\n

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