The 2020 Virtual Governor's School for the Sciences & Engineering is in full swing and has just completed its third week! Read below to check out some of the things the 2020 GSSE scholars have experienced.

• Courses taught by university faculty ranging from physics to industrial and systems engineering
  
• Opening ceremony hosted online
• Presentations and Q&A sessions with:
  • Ann Makosinksi (inventor and entrepreneur)
  • CERN laboratory in France/Switzerland
  • IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica
  • NASA engineer Dr. Tracie Prater who works on the in-space manufacturing project
  • Discover Life in America/Great Smoky Mountains National Park
• Virtual "brown bag lunches" with multiple University of Tennessee departments
• Frequent meetings with RA cohort groups led by current college students, many of whom are graduates of the GSSE program

Check out these three opportunities from the Society for Science & the Public:

1. Research Teachers Conference Lottery - Enter to have a chance to be one of 200 teachers to go to Washington, D.C., October 2–4, 2020, for an all-expenses-paid, peer-led weekend of sharing best practices involved in leading students in science research. The deadline to enter the lottery is July 15.
2. Regeneron Science Talent Search - Do you know a rising high school senior with an extraordinary science research project? The Science Talent Search recognizes the future leaders of the scientific community and awards more than $3 million each year to deserving students and supportive schools. The deadline to apply is November 12, 2020.
3. Science News in High Schools - aims to boost science literacy for every U.S. high school student – and gives teachers easy ways to bring today’s science developments into their teaching. School administrators, science teachers, librarians or anyone else interested on behalf of a public high school can sign up for the free program here.