ASA members, K–16 teachers, and students involved in education—undergraduate or graduate—are invited to write a STEW lesson plan that incorporates data from the Census at School website.

The American Statistical Association and National Council of Teachers of Mathematics are calling on universities and school administrators across the country to provide high-quality training and professional-development opportunities that will help prepare future and current teachers to lead classes on statistics.

USCOTS ’13 will be held May 16–18 at the Embassy Suites Hotel & Conference Center in Raleigh-Durham (Research Triangle), North Carolina. The theme of the conference is “Making Change Happen.”

Plenary speakers for USCOTS 2013 include Xiao-Li Meng, Chris Wild, Hollylynne Stohl Lee, Nicholas Horton, and Danny Kaplan. Read on to learn the topics they plan to address.

The American Statistical Association’s U.S. Census at School program has recorded its milestone 10,000th student.

Every year, a list of internship opportunities for students is published in Amstat News. As an intern, you will have the opportunity to hone your skills in a variety of areas. There is something for everyone, from positions at pharmaceutical companies to a summer spent with some of the top companies in the tech industry. Improve your programming skills, make connections, learn how statistics are used in daily life. Interested students will send a letter of inquiry and résumé directly to the contact and locations listed.

The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education will offer three Mathematical Association of America ancillary workshops on January 8, 2013, the day preceding the 2013 Joint Mathematics Meetings at the San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina.

This year, 21 teachers from across the United States participated in a Beyond AP Statistics (BAPS) workshop at the annual Joint Statistical Meetings in San Diego, California, on August 1. Read on to discover what they learned.

The American Statistical Association sponsored the sixth Meeting Within a Meeting (MWM) statistics workshop for middle- and high-school mathematics and science teachers on July 31 and August 1 in conjunction with the 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings. Twenty-four high-school teachers and administrators and 13 middle-school teachers attended.

Planning has begun for the next United States Conference on Teaching Statistics, which will be held in Raleigh, North Carolina, from May 16–18, 2013, and hosted by the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education.