Summer 2021 Vol. 62, #4
Mark Your Calendars for the 2022 Comeback Conference!
From the President WSST President, Matt Lindsey
As we draw closer to the end of another school year, I want to take this opportunity Mark your calendars! The Come Back to commend everyone on transitioning, Conference will be held April 7-9, 2022 at pivoting, surviving, and thriving through the Wausau Convention Center. a global pandemic! Under extreme cirConference co-chairs Tracy Swedlund cumstances, your students continued to and Amy Fassler are excited to help host learn crosscutting concepts, science and the conference in beautiful North Central engineering practices, and disciplinary Wisconsin. We will all be ready for some core ideas through your guidance and in person professional development and tutelage. Whether your teaching was incomradery. person, virtual, or hybrid, all of our stuWe are also excited to announce that dents continued to flourish and you Paul Anderson has been rescheduled as learned new ways to educate. Make sure the banquet keynote speaker. We are busy to update your LinkedIn accounts with putting together a great line-up of speak- all your new skills, especially script writers and field trips and will be providing ing, video creation, & editing! updates as planning progresses. I would also like to thank those of you We are still in need of a few committee who gave countless hours of yourselves members; reach out to Amy Fassler at continued on page 4 amysfassler@gmail.com or Tracy Inside this Issue! Swedlund at swedltr@medford.k12.wi.us Page 1 President’s Address & Grant Winners if you would like to volunteer on Team Page 5 WSST Store Open! Comeback. Page 6 WSST Essay Contest Winners Conference 2022 co-chairs Tracy Swedlund and Amy Fassler
The Come Back Conference April 7-9, 2022 Wausau Convention Center
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