Mary Frances Early College of Education Research Conference poster and 3MT-SOS award winners

The 2020 Mary Frances Early College of Education Research Conference was a great success. We appreciate everyone who attended, took part in the keynote panel, presented their research, hosted roundtables, and served as judges. A feedback survey is being sent via email; please take the time to provide your thoughts and suggestions.

Congratulations to the following graduate students who were selected as awardees of the research poster and Three-Minute Thesis: Selling our Scholarship (3MT-SOS) competitions.

Graduate student poster awardees:

• First place: Claire Sarver and Jenna Menke, MSE, “Using collective argumentation to teach coding in elementary classrooms”
• Second place: Ayca Fackler and Daniel Capps, MSE, “Learning that models are abstract: A description of the learning processes within synthesis modeling”
• Second place (tied): Bhairvi Trivedi and Jennifer A. Brown, CSSE, “Stay-Play-Talk: Using a peer-mediated intervention to foster social communications in diverse preschoolers”

3MT-SOS awardees:

• First place: Bhairvi Trivedi, CSSE, “Stay-Play-Talk: Using a peer-mediated intervention in diverse preschoolers”
• Second place: Kayla Flanagan, MSE, “Measuring play in game-based learning environments”
• People’s choice: Kayla Flanagan, MSE, “Measuring play in game-based learning environments”