
Questions? Please contact the MISTI Principal Investigator:
Dr. Meghan Marrero
mmarrero3@mercy.edu
(914) 674-7889
Director: Dr. Meghan Marrero
This National Science Foundation Grant follows Mercy undergraduates from Junior year as Student Teacher Observers to their graduate Masters in Education working as full-time Student Teachers. After graduation, MISTI Scholars must work in a high-needs public school for 5 years to fulfill grant requirements. MISTI student teachers are currently placed in many high-needs middle and high schools in the five boroughs of New York City and Westchester County
The Mercy College Intensive STEM Teacher Initiative project is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program.
On November 9, 2019, MISTI Scholars Cindy Dionizio and Amanda Marinato, now both full time teachers in the Yonkers Public Schools, attended a Center for STEM Education workshop on Invention Literacy, using an MIT-designed kit called Makey Makey. They were able to create a touchpad using a graphite drawing and wires to play a computer piano. They also created a math test which had computer generated noises for right and wrong answers. For the final team project they invented a response box as a classroom exit ticket, which would record whether students understood a lesson or not.
English classroom in Vienna, Austria. Here students are writing letters back to students from the Charter School for Educational Excellence in Yonkers, NY in a writing program that Amanda developed.
Amanda with other teachers at the Sta. Cristina school in Vienna (students aged 14-20). Sonja Oberpertinger (bottom right) orchestrated this teaching program with Mercy College.
Ana Oliveira Gomes spent summer 2018 in Seattle, Washington as part of the STEM Teacher Research (STAR) Program doing biological research.