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February
Monday, February 9th
7:00pm - 8:30pm
  • Location: Gary A. Ransdell Hall Auditorium - Room 1074
  • Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm

The 2015 Wedge 
Annual Scholar Presentations

Dr. Barbara Kerr

Barbara Kerr, Ph.D. holds an endowed chair as Distinguished Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Kansas and is an American Psychological Association Fellow. Her M.A. from the Ohio State University and her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri are both in counseling psychology. Her research has focused on the development of talent, creativity, and optimal states, while training psychologists and counselors to be talent scouts who provide positive, strengths-based services.

Dr. Kerr founded the Guidance Laboratory for Gifted and Talented at the University of Nebraska; was Associate Director of the Belin-Blank National Center for Gifted and Talented at the University of Iowa; and co-director of the National Science Foundation projects for talented at risk girls at Arizona State University. She is editor of the recent Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent Development, and author of Smart Girls: A New Psychology of Girls, Women, and Giftedness; A Handbook for Counseling Gifted and Talented; co-author of Smart Boys: Talent, Masculinity, and the Search for Meaning, Counseling Girls and Women and over one hundred articles, chapters, and papers in the area of giftedness, talent, and creativity.

Dr. Kerr currently directs the Counseling Laboratory for the Exploration of Optimal States (CLEOS) at the University of Kansas, a research through service program that identifies and guides creative adolescents. With Karen Multon, she has co-directed the NSF Project, Milestones and Danger Zones for STEM Women.

This is a swipe able event.

Saturday, February 21st
8:00am - 2:00pm
  • Location: Snell Hall 2113/3110
  • Time: 8:00am - 2:00pm

The 2015 Physics Olympics competition will commence with two activities that involve competitors arriving at the event ready to compete with devices they have designed, constructed and tested. The Spectral Scavenger Hunt requires each team to investigate their surroundings to collect evidence of particular spectra. For the Cross Polarization event, each team constructs a device with sheets of polarizers that is capable of analyzing either the concentration of sugar in a solution or the strain within a plastic object.

This year’s “Calculation/ Communication Challenge” is titled Spectroscopic Identification and will require each team to divide into pairs for the determination of visual spectra. Laser Targeting, the “On-the-Spot Activity” for this International Year of Light themed competition, will test each team’s ability to apply the laws of reflection and refraction in a chaotic, time sensitive situation. The “Order-of-Magnitude Quiz” will remain a secret until the day of the event.

Each member of the overall top scoring team will receive a $600 scholarship to attend WKU, while members of the overall second-place team will receive a $200 scholarship. Medals for the team members and a plaque for the school will be awarded to the top three teams in the overall competition. Certificates will be awarded to the top three teams in each event.

Thursday, February 26th
5:00pm - 6:30pm
  • Time: 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Praxis workshop

To sign up for a Praxis workshop, please click on the link that corresponds to the workshop(s) you would like to attend.  Please note that there are two Praxis CASE Math workshops available; each one will cover different material, so you are encouraged to attend both if possible. 

The Praxis Core Academic Skills for Educators (CASE) exam is for those who are needing to take and pass the test for the purpose of admission into the Teacher Education program. 

The Praxis II/PLT exam is for those who need to take the Principles of Learning & Teaching exam for the purpose of obtaining their teacher certification.

Saturday, February 28th
9:00am
  • Location: Drakes Creek Middle School
  • Time: 9:00am

WKU Engineering faculty and staff, with support from the Tau Beta Pi student Engineering Honors Society will conduct the 15th annual Kentucky Bluegrass LEGO Robotics Competition on February 28 at Drakes Creek Middle School.

For the 2015 competition, elementary and middle school teams must build autonomous robots from LEGO Mindstorm kits to accomplish two different Star Wars Themed tasks: (1) Cross hyperspace from a starting point to the finish as quickly as possible, staying on the safe path to avoid space debris and (2) Work with Rebels to battle the Empire around the Death Star to complete tasks and acquire points for your team.  Teams will compete in either the EIT, “Engineer-in-Training,” division for Elementary School teams, or the PE,  “Professional Engineers,” division for Middle School and more experienced teams.

The competition will start around 9:00 a.m., the public is welcome.

 


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