SCIENCE
OF SPORT
602-525-3197
Tucson,
Arizona
To
date: 894 teachers trained / 44,700 students reached
BACKGROUND:
Science of Sport was founded by Ricardo Valerdi, Ph.D.
Initially the goal was to teach math through baseball, but it
has expanded to baseball, soccer, basketball and football
science with teacher workshops / lesson plans / student camps /
webinars. SOS has gone beyond Arizona to the West Coast and
East Coast and Australia.
NOTE: I
found information on the baseball and soccer programs but no news
turned up when I clicked on basketball and football.
VIDEO: Introductory
6.5 minute video with Ricardo Valerdi and:
Darren
Heaton VP, business development, SOS / former manager, Education
Initiatives, Arizona Diamondbacks
Kevin
Brungardt Middle school social studies teacher. Over 25 lesson plans
include trajectory, nutrition, baseball analytics.
Ballard
Smith Former president, CEO, San Diego Padres / Executive director,
SOS. They work with Colorado Rockies, San Diego Padres, LA
Angels, Arizona Diamondbacks, partner with Boys & Girls
Club
Linda
Wojtowicz Former CEO, Tucson Boys & Girls Club
Daniel
Miranda Director, Boys & Girls Club
Emily
Masterson and Austin Masterson Biomedical engineering students
Dustin
Payne Arizona Diamondbacks Community Initiative. Said SOS is in its third year.
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT:
Training
for 100 more teachers was announced in 2014:
In
collaboration with Univ. of Arizona College of Engineering and
Arizona Dept. of Education, the Diamondbacks Science of Baseball
program has spread throughout Arizona.
TEDx
VIDEO:
I
watched a TEDx Tucson talk by Ricardo Valerdi, done, I think, in
2014. Very well done.
SPONSORS
include:
Orlando
Magic Houston Astros Colorado Rockies San Diego Padres
LA
Angels Angels Science of Baseball
Science
of Baseball Urban Youth Academy National Youth Baseball Academy
Dept.
of Defense STEM Northrop Grumman Foundation
BASEBALL
ADELAIDE,
AUSTRALIA
STEMBALL
/ The Adelaide Bite (team name)
The
University of Adelaide (Australia) and Science of Sport hosted 125
Australian students to launch the STEMBALL program in Australia.
The Bite have a one-day program for middle school students with
eight STEM lessons on Australian baseball.
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT, BASEBALL
SAN
DIEGO
San
Diego Padres, Science of Sport, and San Diego Gas & Electric ran
a professional development workshop for 40 teachers in the San Diego
area. It was a one-day workshop from 9 to 2, and it introduced 12
lesson plans to math, science, and PE teachers for grades 5 to 8. It
covered: geometry, trajectory of the ball flight, aerodynamics,
elasticity, biomechanics, in addition to physiology, nutrition,
reaction time, baseball statistics, scoring, strike zone, rules of
baseball, and ballpark design.
SOCCER
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT, SOCCER
LOS
ANGELES
The
LA Galaxy Foundation funded the initial training of 25 teachers from
the Newport Mesa School District, later began promoting this
throughout southern California.
A
video is narrated by Ricardo Valerdi, with comments from teachers
Katie Holt, Kurt Suhr, and Tarym Flamson. I watched “The Science
of Penalty Shootout” video on how to score 100% penalty kicks.
Besides
teaching the kids pointers on how to play soccer -– players and
positions / dribbling and passing / penalty kicks and goalies –- as
well as character development, the science includes aerodynamics /
trajectory of ball flight / momentum, plus physiology and nutrition
and training.
BASEBALL
AND SOCCER
Anaheim,
CA – December 23, 2015
The
Anaheim City School District has received a $1,050,000 STEM
education grant from the California Department of Education
that will be funded over a three-year period.
Additionally, the Orange County Department of Education, Angels
Baseball and the LA Galaxy will provide an additional
$500,000 in in-kind support for the program.
The
grant and in-kind support will allow 35 teachers from the
Anaheim City School District to become Master Teachers for
the Angels Science of Baseball and the LA Galaxy Science of
Soccer programs.
The
programs teach kids how STEM subjects relate to sports through
real- world examples.
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