APPLICATION For 2025 Now Open!

Workshop Overview

The week will include sessions on defining data science, learning data science content, understanding how data science can fit into your schools curriculum and requirements, and getting familiar with popular data science tools used in education. You can expect the sessions to be interactive and hands-on. Some sessions may ask you to get outside and collect data (weather permitting!), and then come back in the classroom to practice using your newly acquired data science skills.

Application Details

We can only serve 75 attendees for this workshop. Instead of utilizing a "first come first serve" registration system for this event, an application will be utilized to select participants from varying types of schools, subject areas, and experience levels. Since part of the mission of NCSSM is to advance public education in North Carolina, applicants from North Carolina will receive priority selection to attend. We still strongly encourage applications from out of state applicants who wish to attend, and will accept as many as we can as allowed by funding and space. In previous years we've had many participants attend from outside of North Carolina!

Expected Application Timeline (Subject to change)

• Application opens: Monday, February 3rd, 2025

• Priority deadline: Monday, March 17th, 2025

• Notification to priority applicants: Tuesday, April 1st, 2025

• Rolling acceptances and notifications until participant cap is reached

Funding for Travel/Lodging Available

Thanks to generous support from Google.org and and the InSTEP project at NC State’s Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, stipends that can be applied towards your travel costs will be awarded, and every participants lodging costs will be fully paid! You'll be notified of your stipend amount upon acceptance to the Data Science Summer Institute.

Two Groups for Different experience levels

We're excited to offer two groupings for our participants to join!  Please read the descriptions below, and select the most appropriate group for you when applying to attend.

Novice Group (limited to 55 participants)

For teachers who are completely new or still getting started in teaching data science, we suggest signing up for the "Novice" track. This group will obtain an overview of data science at the middle/high-school level, cover the basics of data collection and wrangling, hypothesis testing through simulation, and making predictions from data. Additionally, attendees will learn about a variety of tools to use in their classroom, with a focus on using Common Online Data Analysis Platform (CODAP) and spreadsheets.

Experienced Group (limited to 20 participants)

For teachers who have been to the workshop in the past, or are looking to dig into more of the nitty gritty of data science coursework should sign up for the "Experienced" track. Attendees will learn how to utilize programming tools, like Python and R, to implement data science activities with their students and explore developing lessons to use data science in interdisciplinary applications. Experienced participants will also have a few specialized sessions from outside presenters to learn how data science is used in specific governmental, research, and industry applications.

The InSTEP project is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DRL 1908760 awarded to North Carolina State University. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed herein are those of the principal investigators and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.