 Celebrate
Green Bay! Outreach Program Manager
Bob Skorczewski represents UWGB on the Mayor’s
Green Bay Sesquicentennial Celebration Committee. Among
the events planned to commemorate the 1854 founding
of Green Bay as a city is the Feb. 26 gala celebration
in Lambeau Field’s Atrium from 7 to 11 p.m. Skorczewski
has helped to arrange UWGB event connections including
Professor John Salerno’s Jazz
Combo and Jazz Band appearances as well as an historical
display created by Deb Anderson, coordinator
of the Area Research Center. Also, Scott Hildebrand,
director of UWGB Marketing and Media Relations, is on
the event’s marketing and promotions team.
 Creating
a Workforce for the Future. Outreach Governmental
Affairs Coordinator Kassie Van Remortel
has taken on the additional assignment of programming
in the area of economic development. Her first step
has been to establish membership for UWGB in the Employers
Workforce Development Network (EWDN). EWDN shares resources
and develops partnerships “to create world-class
workplaces in a community of choice” and sponsors
Green Bay’s Young Professionals Network. Mary
Fischer, Brenda Jerabek and
Linda Peacock-Landrum will join Van
Remortel as part of the UWGB team “helping to
create a community of choice to attract and retain a
quality workforce for our economic future.”
 State
Honor. Doug Gjerde, director of the Small Business
Development Center, has been elected to the Board of
Directors of the nonprofit, statewide Wisconsin Small
Business Innovation Consortium (WISBIC). His fellow
board members include representatives from the state
Department of Commerce, the Medical College of Wisconsin,
U.S. Bank, Madison Gas and Electric Company, Marshfield
Clinic Research Foundation, Center for Advanced Technology
and Innovation, Madison Area Technical College and two
other UW institutions. WISBIC works to create a supportive
environment for commercialization of new technologies
for start-up and growth of small, innovative businesses
including education for securing research and development
funding.
 The
Best for Both Worlds. Outreach’s Certificate
for Nonprofit Professionals Program is providing the
unit of measure for Lora Warner’s
spring Public and Environmental Affairs campus course
“Program Evaluation 835-428.” The noncredit
certificate program coordinated by Outreach Program
Manager Barbara McClure-Lukens will
be analyzed and assessed by Warner’s students
as they learn how to evaluate a program. The students
will plan the evaluation, develop tools, and measure
outcomes. McClure-Lukens will use the findings to improve
the Outreach certificate program.
 Judging
Honors. Bob Skorczewski, coordinator of the
College Credit in High Schools (CCIHS) Program, has
been appointed to a three-person panel by the Little
Chute School District that will judge the portfolios
of graduating seniors. Students will give a ten-minute
presentation before the three-person panel on April
28. Skorczewski was selected because of UWGB’s
new CCIHS partnership with the Little Chute district.
 Biz
4 Youth. That’s the name of a new summer
camp focusing on entrepreneurship for students entering
grades 9 through 11 who may start a business someday.
Business Professor Meir Russ is planning
the camp in collaboration with Ashwaubenon Schools Business
Teacher Theresa Charapata. The week-long program at
the end of June will equip students to create a new
enterprise, enhance creativity skills, and help them
develop a viable business idea.
 Budding
Science Detectives. Education Professor Scott
Ashman has created a brand new summer camp
that will create ecological detectives. The innovative
program entitled EcoSystem Investigations will attract
high school students interested in exploring the workings
of the environment. Through investigative science projects,
students will learn the importance of creating hypotheses,
analyzing data, drawing conclusions and reporting their
results. Group discussions, fieldwork and hands-on activities
are the major components of the week. Students will
enter data into the GLOBE Network, which holds data
from 140 countries from all over the world.
 Hola!
Outreach’s Spanish Intensive Language and Culture
Summer Camp has received a $1,000 grant from the Wisconsin
Humanities Council for next summer. This grant will
be used for 10 $100 scholarships for first generation
immigrant students in an effort to preserve their language
and cultural heritage. Mona Christensen,
director of UWGB Summer Camps, and Professor
Angeles Rodriguez, the camp director, wrote
the grant to pursue this unmet need and unexpected audience
for the Spanish Language Camp.
 Teachers
Take-Off. Fifteen K-12 teachers from around
the state traveled to Kennedy Space Center last month
to make connections between the math, science, and technology
content they teach and the world-class facilities at
the Space Center. The teachers received a first-hand
view of the aerospace industry in action during the
three-day conference sponsored by the Wisconsin Space
Science Initiative (WSSI) and administered by Space
Education Initiatives, Green Bay. Outreach worked with
Space Education Initiatives and the Education faculty
for the approval of a two-credit graduate course offering
for the experience. Education Outreach Director Carmen
Leuthner, a former science teacher and instructor
for the Summer Space Academy in Green Bay, accompanied
the group.
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