Dr. AnnMarie Thomas joins the board of "Leonardo’s Basement”

Professor AnnMarie Thomas has been named to the board of Leonardo’s Basement in Minneapolis. “Leonardo’s Basement is an innovative educational organization for children and their families.  [It] create[s] imaginative learning environments where girls and boys ages 6 to 16 design and build their creative ideas, mixing art, science and technology.” 
(From www.leonardosbasement.org/1history.php)

AnnMarie’s research focus is P-12 teacher education in engineering, with a focus on the teaching of engineering design.  She co-directs, with Dr. Jan Hansen from the UST School of Education, the UST Center for Pre-Collegiate Engineering Education.  Additionally, she serves on the board of the NSF-funded IDEA  (Invention, Design, Engineering and Art) Cooperative, a collaboration between the Science Museum of Minnesota and the Saint Paul Public School district.