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

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/june2006/06292006_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.