{"id":5720,"date":"2025-01-28T13:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?page_id=5720"},"modified":"2026-08-31T13:17:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:17:34","slug":"ret","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/ret\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Experiences for Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #008080;\">June 29 &#8211; August 7, 2026<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>Open to high school science teachers and community college STEM faculty<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>Applications accepted January 15 &#8211; April 10.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This RET is a paid summer research opportunity for <strong>Boston-area<\/strong> high school STEM teachers and community college faculty. Teachers are trained and mentored by Boston University faculty and graduate students as they engage in authentic engineering research projects. Teachers develop their research skills and gain improved understanding of science concepts, technology applications, and potential career paths for their students.<\/p>\n<p>Participants will also develop an original curricular lesson or activity related to their research experience, to be taught in their classrooms and published online at TeachEngineering.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 29 &#8211; August 7, 2026 Open to high school science teachers and community college [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19768,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"bu-landing","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5720"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11085,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5720\/revisions\/11085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}