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DoD STARBASE NM<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Students complete hands-on, minds-on activities while participating in a national program that provides opportunities to explore engineering, math operations and applications, physics, chemistry, technology, and STEM careers.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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    5th grade<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
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    25 hours of curriculum<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
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    25 contact hours\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      Mission is conducted at the AFRL NM STEM Academy<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
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      Teacher orientation provided<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
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      Five 5-hour classes<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      Content Standard Alignment<\/span><\/h1>\n

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      The University of New Mexico Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) completed a longitudinal study in 2015 on the effectiveness of DoD STARBASE NM.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

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      The study found that STARBASE students demonstrated gains in both mathematics and language arts that persisted throughout their middle school and high school coursework<\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

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