Colorado State University

The Center for Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education (CSMATE) is launched as a shared vision of the Colleges of Natural Sciences and Applied Human Sciences by a coallition of faculty led by Dr. William Timpson. Dr. Thompson publishes CHEMTREK.

Dr. Fred Stein becomes the Director and CSMATE is located in the CNS Dean’s Office in the University Services Building. The Small-Scale Science: Teachers As Researchers (S3TAR) Program begins. Ms. Lynne Judish joins the staff as Lab Coordinator.

Dr. Christine Jones joins the staff of CSMATE as the Assistant Director. SummerMath Program begins.

Drs. Stein and Jones join board of directors of Discovery Center Science Museum. The Rocky Mountain Teacher Education Program begins.

CSMATE moves into the newly built Natural and Environmental Sciences Building with two specially designed Learning Studios. Ms. Barry Carroll joins the staff of CSMATE as a Program Coordinator. Dr. Stephen Thompson joins the staff of CSMATE as an Associate Director. CSMATE begins its partnership with Annenberg/CPB to offer distance professional development courses for teachers.

Ms. Courtney Butler joins the staff of CSMATE as the Assistant to the Director.

CSMATE becomes an Eisenhower National Clearinghouse Center. The COBRAS Program and the Pollution Prevention project with PETE begin.

The Solutions Project begins.

Dr. Stein resigns from CSU and Dr. Judy Hannah, Department of Geosciences, serves as Interim Director. Ms. Butler becomes the Director of the Colorado Science and Engineering Fair.

Dr. Edward Geary becomes the new Director. The Powerful Pictures project begins.

Dr. Andrew Warnock joins the staff of CSMATE as a Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Center for Learning and Teaching in the West Program and Research Scientist for CSMATE. The Digital Water Education Library project and the Center for Learning and Teaching in the West program begin.

Due to tighter budgets, the College of Applied Human Sciences ends its financial support of CSMATE. The GLOBE Program begins.

Dr. Geary resigns from CSU and Dr. Thompson becomes the Director of CSMATE. Dr. Warnock joins the board of directors of the Discovery Science Center. CSMATE takes over running the Summer Vet and Bugs to Biospheres programs from the Center for Life Sciences. CSMATE begins partnering with El Centro to provide space and organization of the Triunfo/Triumph Tutoring Program. The Math-Science Partnership project with the University of Northern Colorado begins.

The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse Center ends. The Labtop: An Integration of Theory and Practice project begins. Dr. Paul Kennedy is appointed principal investigator of the Center for Learning and Teaching in the West and joins the staff as Associate Director.

The GetWET Groundwater Field Site opens. Bugs to Biospheres changes to SciTrek: Real Science, Real Research in a Safe, Environmentally Benign & Interdisciplinary Context.

World Window 3-D Visualization project begins.

Center for Learning and Teaching in the West ends. Discovery Science Center closes in preparation for new building.

Dr. Jones retires from CSU. Dr. Thompson goes onto transitional retirement through the Department of Chemistry. Dr. Warnock becomes the Director and Ms. Butler becomes the Assistant Director of the newly named Natural Sciences Education & Outreach Center.

The EOC re-establishes the CSU chapter of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. The Get Energized! STEM Kit is developed through a mini grant from the CSU Clean Energy Supercluster (now the Energy Institute).

National Park Partnership begins.

• Warnock and Butler visit schools in Hawai’i.
• STEM Friday program begins.

Tree Ring Study begins as collaboration between SciTrek and Lory State Park.

• Warnock and Butler take Anchialine Pools kit to Hawai’i.
• Math-Science-Tech Day and Triunfo reach 25 year milestones.

Annenberg program and Ms. Carroll move to the School of Education.

• Warnock and Butler take Vital Ice STEM kit to Alaska.
• Mike Viney retires from Blevins Middle School and increases his long time role as Teacher-in-Residence at the center.
• STEM Fridays become official component of EDUC 460: Science Methods.
• Dr. Paul Kennedy retires.

Hawaii Trip

Vicky Jordan joins the center as a Teacher-in-Residence.

The Colorado Science and Engineering Fair is run virtually.