Science Teacher Workshop

The North Central Chapter, in cooperation with the Rochester Area Math Science Partnership, held a workshop for elementary and middle school science teachers on August 11, 2006, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.  Each attendee received a course notebook with lecture notes, hands-on materials, reference materials, and a portable radiation survey meter suitable for use in the classroom.

Ionizing Radiation for Teachers Workshop

Agenda

 

	MN Science Standards
Topic	Grade 6	Grade 7	Grade 8	Grades 9-12
Welcome and Introduction
Radiation and Radioactivity	I.A., II.A., II.C.	I.A.		I.A., II.A., II.B., II.C., II.E.
Radiation in the Environment
Break
Health Effects		IV.G.		I.A., IV.A.
Radiation Detection and Hands-on Exercise	I.B.	I.B.	I.B.	I.B.
Lunch/Food Irradiation
Medical Uses of Radiation		I.C.	I.D.	I.C., I.D., II.A.
Industrial Uses of Radiation		I.C.	I.D.	I.C., I.D., II.A., II.C., III.A.
Break
Health Physics/Radiation Safety
Resources and Idea Sharing		I.D.	I.C.
Wrap up and Evaluation

Instructors

	Nick Bates is a health physicist at 3M Company with responsibility for directing the corporate radiation safety program at the Brookings, SD gamma irradiator facility. Nick has a B.S. in physics (mathematics minor) from Dickinson College and a M.S. in health physics from Purdue University. Nick is an Associate member of the American Board of Health Physics. Prior to joining 3M in 1998, Nick was a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force. In that capacity, Nick served as a field team leader of the Air Force’s Broken Arrow emergency response team (AFRAT), and as a manager of several MARSSIM-based environmental decommissioning projects.
	Jeff Brunette is a health physicist for the Mayo Clinic since 1999. Some of his responsibilities include radiation safety in nuclear medicine, the PET cyclotron facility, and for CT shielding needs at the Clinic. Jeff has a BS in physics from the University of Wisconsin - River Falls and a MS degree in health physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Jeff is certified by the American Board of Health Physics. Prior to working at Mayo, Jeff was employed as a health physicist at both the Charleston Area Medical Centers in Charleston, West Virginia and the VA West Side Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois.
	Fred Entwistle is Manager of 3M Corporate Health Physics and the 3M Corporate Radiation Safety Officer. He has a BA in Biology from the University of California, San Diego and an MS in Environmental Health from the University of Michigan. Fred is certified in the comprehensive practice of health physics by the American Board of Health Physics. During his time at 3M he has had extensive experience with radiation use in gauging systems, gamma sterilization, radioactive source manufacturing and facility decommissioning.
	Bob Fairchild is Professor of Physics and Chair of the Physics Department at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, NE. He is also Radiation Safety Officer for the campus. He is certified in the comprehensive practice of health physics by the American Board of Health Physics. He earned his B.S. in physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his M.S. in Radiological Health Physics at Colorado State University and his Ph.D. at Cornell University. He has conducted research in environmental radiation and radon, including a year-long sabbatical working at the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency in Melbourne, Australia.
	Kelly Classic has been a health physicist at Mayo Clinic since 1984. In addition to being a health physicist, Kelly was the Administrator for the Mayo Rochester Integrated Safety Program from 2000-2004. Prior to that, she headed the Radiation Safety Section for 10 years. Before coming to Mayo, she was a part time health physicist at Purdue University where she was attending school, but started her career in radiation sciences as a radiographer in 1979 at Blodgett Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Kelly received her bachelor's degree in environmental sciences in 1982 and her master's degree in health physics 1983, both from Purdue University. She currently is pursing a doctorate in safety engineering. Kelly is a member of the Health Physics Society where she also is the Society's Media Liaison and an associate editor of the Society Web site. She currently serves on two National Council on Radiological Protection and Measurements (NCRP) committees and is an associate editor of the Health Physics Journal and Health Physics Society Web site.
	Mike Lewandowski is a corporate health physicist at 3M Company with responsibility for directing and supervising the use of radiation sources in 3M's domestic manufacturing facilities. Mike has a BS in physics and mathematics from UW-River Falls and a MS in health physics from Purdue University. Mike is certified in the comprehensive practice of health physics by the American Board of Health Physics. Prior to joining 3M in 1997 Mike worked for Westinghouse as a radiological engineer at a transuranic radioactive waste disposal facility, for RUST Federal Services as an occupational and environmental health physicist on the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project, and as a high school physics and math teacher in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
	Brian Vetter has been a health physicist with the University of Minnesota since 1992 and is currently the manager of the U's radiation safety staff. He has a BA in Physics from St. Mary's College of Winona, and an MS in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Missouri. Brian is an associate member of the American Board of Health Physics and a member of Minnesota's Radiological Emergency Preparedness program which manages the response in the event of a nuclear power plant incident through the State's Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.