SSEC and STRI Team Up to Use Research and Empowerment To Transform Science Education in Panama and the World

July 16, 2018 

With organizational support from Panama’s National Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation and Panama’s Ministry of Education, as well as financial support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Johnson & Johnson, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and the Smithsonian Science Education Center (SSEC) brought together a group of change agents and more than 50 teachers to try out the SSEC's newly launched "Mosquito!" module from its "Smithsonian Science for Global Goals" curriculum. Teachers and education stakeholders from Panama and Malawi, Africa had a chance to interact with scientists using innovative teaching methods.

Read more at https://stri.si.edu/story/mosquito