Press Release

July 5, 2006

MEDIA ADIVSORY: AMSTI Summer Institute agenda

EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS: Troy University and the Alabama Math, Science and Technology Initiative, AMSTI, will host its Summer Institute beginning at 8 a.m. Monday, July 10 at Troy Elementary School.

This institute, which runs through July 21, is designed to give about 300 southeast Alabama educators training, equipment and materials to implement AMSTI at selected schools. It is the first such institute conducted by the University.

The opening session proposed agenda is as follows:

AMSTI-TROY SUMMER INSTITUTE 2006

July 10, 2006
8:00 am

Welcome and Introduction
of Special Guests

Dr. Lance Tatum, Interim Dean
College of Education
Troy University

Invocation The Reverend Stanley Carter, Pastor
Elba United Methodist Church
Presentation of Colors and
Pledge of Allegiance Troy Boy Scout Troop 41
Entertainment Elba FFA Quartet
Brief Overview of AMSTI Dr. Ed Roach, Provost and Executive
Vice Chancellor
Troy University
Introduction of Chancellor Hawkins Dr. Ed Roach
Remarks Dr. Jack Hawkins, Jr., Chancellor
Troy University
Greetings from the City of Troy The Honorable Jimmy Lunsford
Mayor of the City of Troy
Comments Dr. Joseph Morton, Superintendent of Education
Alabama Department of Education
AMSTI Update Mr. Steve Ricks, AMSTI State Coordinator
Alabama Department of Education
Information, Logistics, and Introduction of Staff Ms. Nadine Scarborough, AMSTI Site Director
Troy University

This session, as are training sessions conducted throughout the institute are open for coverage. As always, the University Relations Office is available to assist your organization in covering this event.

A full news release on the AMSTI Summer Institute can be accessed on the web at http://www.troy.edu/news/archives/2006/june/06292006_summer_institute.html.

As an AMSTI site, Troy University received a $1.2 million grant from the State Department of Education to implement the program in an 11-county service area in southeast Alabama. Those counties include Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Escambia, Geneva, Henry, Houston and Pike. The University also directs the Alabama Science in Motion Program, which is the grades 9-12 component of AMSTI. ASIM conducts summer training for teachers that are teaching biology and chemistry. With the addition of the physics discipline this year, physics teachers will also receive training.

Schools from TROY’s regional in-service district that were selected to become AMSTI schools this year are: Houston County High School, Red Level High School, Greenville Middle School, Andalusia Middle School, Luverne High School, Pleasant Home School, Goshen Elementary School and Troy Elementary School.

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