With the school year well underway, the Trinect triads have begun moving and shaking- quite literally. This fall semester each group will teach a lesson using small robotic creatures called Hexbug® Nanos. Shaped like an insect and roughly …
New School Year Begins
The school year often signals new beginnings for students and teachers alike and this year is no different, especially for those involved in Trinect. On August 26th, the halls of elementary schools in the Des Moines Public School …
Trinect Summer Institute 2015
With the school year right around the corner, the Trinect staff and triad teams have been hard at work preparing for the next big adventure, the beginning of Trinect in Des Moines classrooms. This preparation came in the …
Kick Off
On April 28, Iowa State students in the College of Engineering had their first chance to meet their unlikely partners for this next year, student teachers in the School of Education. These students, paired together as part of …
Welcome to Trinect!
The Trinect program, funded by the National Science Foundation’s STEM-C program, is designing a new model of teacher preparation at Iowa State University. Designed to help teachers meet Next Generation Science Standards, Trinect incorporates teams consisting of a …