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Featured Stories
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Animal skull, fingerprints and fake blood: Samples help students solve mystery in ORISE forensic chemistry academy
Not all mysteries are a crime, but when teaching students how to solve a puzzle with forensic chemistry skills, a crime scene is a lot more fun and memorable. That’s why participants who registered for ORISE’s Forensic Chemistry Mini-Academy arrived to find crime scene tape outside their academy classroom.
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A group of the nation’s most accomplished STEM teachers selected as Albert Einstein Educator Fellows
Fifteen K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers from across the United States have been named 2024-2025 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellows. Selected Fellows will spend 11 months serving in a federal agency or U.S. Congressional office in Washington, DC, engaged in the national STEM education arena.
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Students head west to experience once-in-a-lifetime research opportunity
Learn all about JSTI West, a two-week, fully-funded, residential STEM research experience for high school students.
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The how and why of AI: ORISE’s Artificial Intelligence Mini-Academy empowers students to engage with AI
ORISE’s AI Mini-Academy helped middle school students navigate how and when they should use artificial intelligence.
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ORISE Robotics Academy teaches students to build bots and skills
ORISE hosted high school students from around East Tennessee for the weeklong ORISE Robotics Academy (June 3-7, 2024), which seeks to encourage rising 10th, 11th and 12th graders to become engineers, computer programmers and technology leaders of the future.
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Looking ahead: Everything you need to know about ORISE summer programs
Discover everything you need to know about this summer’s ORISE K-12 programs, including dates and details about the programs.
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Director, Communications
Phone: 865.603.5142
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Manager, Communications
Phone: 865.207.7953
wendy.west@orau.org
The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) asset that is dedicated to enabling critical scientific, research, and health initiatives of the department and its laboratory system by providing world class expertise in STEM workforce development, scientific and technical reviews, and the evaluation of radiation exposure and environmental contamination.
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