• I Was A Kid Connecticut project • 

 

Thanks to some wonderful donors, new I Was a Kid profiles are on the way for FREE to Connecticut teachers. 

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The Connecticut Department of the Arts, Cigna, and the Connecticut Science Center have funded a growing set of I Was A Kid profiles of Connecticut STEAM professionals.

 

Connecticut Sea Grant funded printing and shipping to 200 members of the Connecticut Science Teaching Association and the Connecticut Association of School Librarians.  

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Featured: 

• Kat Milligan-McClellan, University of Connecticut -- the first Iñupiaq Ph.D. in microbiology

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• Tracy Romano, Mystic Aquarium's chief scientist

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• Nurudeen Lucky Osumah, UConn Health Center resident in emergency medicine 

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• Robert Glaspy, director of the Connecticut Association of Paramedics and EMTs

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• Jessica Alicea-Planas, Fairfield University associate professor of nursing 

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• Sahar Saleem, radiologist and mummy expert at the Barnum Museum

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COMING SOON: 

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• Sefra Alexander, the Seed Huntress

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• Karen Romano Young, founder/director of IWAK

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• and more! 

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As always, digital files are available free and printed trading cards and posters at cost. 

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Contact wrenyoung@gmail.com to partner, fund, or be profiled in this effort! Or, if you're a Connecticut teacher or school librarian, to request a packet. 

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