Welcome to the Mohawk Valley Science Teachers Association website.

MVSTA is the Mohawk Valley Section of STANYS, the Science Teachers Association of New York State. Click here to go to the STANYS website.

Our Spring Dinner Meeting has been scheduled. It will be on Wed, April 23, at Casa Too Mucha. Dr. Robin Kinnel of Hamilton College will be speaking on "Adventures in Natural Products Chemistry." Click here for the flyer with information and reservation form.

There is a summer course titled ICE AGE TO GLOBAL WARMING. It takes place in and around Albany from July 7-11, 2008. It offers 45 contact hours, with a price of $295 (dinners included). Deadline for signing up is June 7, 2008. This is an interdisciplinary program covering the art, history, literature, and ecology of the Greater Capital Region.  Tour the homes, walk the grounds, see the exhibits, meet the curators, tae home the curriculum material and ideas to energize your classes and stimulate minds.  The program covers from Dutch settlement to the Erie Canal to the Underground Railroad to the Rockefeller years including behind the scene tours of museum labs, and sunset walks in the ravines of a cemetery topped of with a river cruise. For more information, click on the title of the course above.

The New York State Center for Engineering Design and Industrial Innovation (NYSCEDII) at the University at Buffalo (UB) invites your female students entering grades 10-12 to apply for participation inthe 2008 Cyber Engineering Workshop for Young Women, July 14 - 18. Click here for more information & teacher form, and student form. The NYS CEDII home webpage is (www.nyscedii.buffalo.edu).

The American Chemical Society is hosting workshops this summer on Green Chemistry. This is a great opportunity to broaden and update your teaching focus. . . . . . . . .Info from ACS below: Green Chemistry Workshops for High School Teachers ACS will offer two, week-long workshops on green chemistry for high school teachers in 2008. The workshops will be held in Pittsburgh, PA (July 6 – 11, 2008), and Raleigh-Durham, NC (dates TBA), and are supported by a generous grant from the Bayer Foundation. . . . . . . .Please contact Mary Kirchhoff at m_kirchhoff@acs.org for more information.

The Dolan DNA Learning Center (DNALC) is a pioneer in modern biology education. Since it's founding in 1988, more than 8,000 teaching faculty have received intensive training at DNALC-sponsored workshops conducted in 42 states and several foreign countries. For 2008, we are offering a series of exciting opportunities covering cancer, neuroscience, RNA interference, molecular biology, bioinformatics and genomics. For applications and additional information, please visit our Educator Training website at: http://www.dnalc.org/ddnalc/teacher_training/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .For a pdf listing courses for this year, click here.

The University of Rochester is offering a Pre-College Experience in Physics for Women, July 7 - July 30, 2008. Click here for more information, and click here for an application form.

Our latest newsletter is available as a pdf. Click here for the Winter 2008 MVSTA Newsletter.

Click here for information about a great exhibit on Chemistry at Skidmore College, which will be presented until April of 2008. Click here for a copy of the newspaper article about the exhibit.

Board Meetings are held monthly. See the EVENTS page for the time and place of our next Meeting and also for upcoming Workshops and Conferences.

PLEASE see the Photo Gallery page for photos of the dinner to honor Rep. Sherwood Boehlert that took place on the evening of Weds, November 29, 2006.

Our Fall 2005 Dinner Meeting was held at the Masonic Medical Research Laboratory. See the Photo Gallery page for photos from the meeting.