NSTA celebrates your dedication and resilience in your efforts to provide students with outstanding science and STEM education! Please enjoy this video from NSTA Interim CEO Bob Lay, who expresses his heartfelt thanks to “all of the great educators, science champions, and supporters out there.”

Toshiba and NSTA have declared eight student teams national winners of the 33rd annual Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision competition, the world’s largest K–12 science competition. This year’s winners created innovative proposals for overcoming some of the world’s greatest challenges, from healthcare issues (heart-attack prevention with the Nano Artertract Plaque Seeker) to transportation efforts (improved road surfaces that prevent crashes with Biomimetic Surfaces) to protecting the environment (fighting wildfires with Drone Ranger). "Our future is in good hands with these future scientists and innovators at the helm,” observed NSTA President Alicia Conerly, Ed.D.

If you’re planning to attend our fall national conference in Minneapolis on November 12–15, it’s time to arrange for your housing. You’ll want to secure your housing soon because hotel reservations are taken on a first-come, first-served, space-available basis. To guarantee your hotel choice, submit your reservation as soon as possible.

Does your classroom or lab have appropriate ventilation? Ventilation safety protocol standards establish safety requirements to protect life and property from fires and explosions. Two important sources of these standards are the National Fire Protection Association and the American National Standards Institute/American Society of Safety Professionals. NSTA Chief Safety Blogger Ken Roy compares the two sets of standards—noting that “science laboratory/classroom instructional space teachers and chemical hygiene officers need to know how they compare and apply"—in this month’s Safety Blog post.

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Science Scope, NSTA’s peer-reviewed journal for middle level science teachers, features the open-access article "Building Insights Through Observation: Integrating Art and Science to Support Sensemaking." Created for middle level science classes, the Building Insights through Observation (BIO) model uses hands-on, arts-based instructional approaches with science content (specifically geospatial data visualizations) to lead students in sensemaking about global phenomena. The article describes the BIO goals and approach and key features of the model, along with its application to plate tectonics as an example.