Eight Savannah State University students enrolled in the School of Teacher Education will participate as teaching interns during a STEM 360 summer enrichment camp at Oglethorpe Charter School.

Focusing on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), the teaching interns will present predetermined lessons. The SSU students will be joined by four teaching interns from Savannah Technical College. The hands-on experience in a teaching environment will allow them to learn classroom-setting concepts.

The program runs each weekday morning for 9 a.m. to noon, June 1 – 12. The first week’s participants are elementary age students and the second week is for middle school students.

The Summer Educational Internship Program (SEIP) is sponsored by a $1.4 million grant from the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program. The program provides funding to institutions of higher education to offer scholarships, stipends, and programmatic support to recruit and prepare STEM majors and professionals to become K-12 teachers.

Students who intern this summer will receive a $1,000 stipend and be eligible to apply for a $10,000 scholarship to pursue their degree in teacher education. If chosen, the scholarship and STEM professional stipend recipients are required to complete two years of teaching in a high-need school district for each year of support.