ITEEA Minneapolis General Session Speakers Announced
 Internationally Known STEM Next Generation Workforce Expert to Speak at Program Excellence General Session
ITEEA is pleased to announce that one of the top counseling and career development professionals in the United States, Dr. Rich Feller, will be the Program Excellence General Session Speaker at the March, 2011 ITEEA Conference. Dr. Feller is an internationally known educator who is particularly well versed in topics such as the Minneapolis Conference Theme, “Preparing the STEM Workforce: The Next Generation.” His extensive work in career development has resulted in over 70 publications, seats on various Boards of Directors and editorial boards, hundreds of professional presentations and workshops, and countless committees and other service activities.
At the ITEEA General Session, Dr. Feller will address the 21st Century Workforce and how technology and engineering teachers can play a major role in shaping the workforce of the future, new basics for the next generation, and the sustainable workforce and environment. Dr. Feller’s keynote presentation will be held on Thursday, March 24, 2011 at
9 a.m.
 Medical Inventor/Technologist to Speak at Teacher Excellence General Session
The International Technology and Engineering Educators Association is also pleased to announce Dr. Joseph “Jay” Zwischenberger, M.D. as its Teacher Excellence General Session speaker at the Minneapolis Conference in March, 2011. Dr. Zwischenberger is a Johnson-Wright Professor and Chairman of the Kentucky College of Medicine Department of Surgery. He has been an important advocate of technology during the development of the artificial lung and played an important role in the patent process in relation to its development. He is renowned for speaking on the topic of the advances in medicine made possible by the use of technology.
In addition to leading a staff of more than 120 surgeons, scientists, and residents, Dr. Zwischenberger has a passion for rebuilding antique cars, is an amateur musician, and enjoys farming as a hobby. He raises chickens, grows an organic vegetable garden, and is learning beekeeping.
Make plans now to join your colleagues as they learn about technology, engineering, and the advancement of medicine with Dr. Zwischenberger on Friday, March 25, 2011 at 9 a.m.
ITEEA’s Minneapolis Conference will be held March 24-26, 2011. For the latest conference information, go to www.iteea.org/Conference/conferenceguide.htm.
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Opportunity for International ITEEA Members to Present in Minneapolis
The application to present in Minneapolis is closed. However, international ITEEA members can still apply to present a paper for PATT 24 (the deadline is October 1, 2010). Click here for information.
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Energy Workshop Planned for Minneapolis
 University of Arkansas faculty members, Vinson Carter and Michael Daugherty, are busy planning a half-day preconference workshop on renewable energy technology to be presented at ITEEA's Minneapolis conference. In response to suggestions from last year's attendees, the focus will be primarily on curriculum ideas, activities, and suggestions. Participants will be provided an overview of renewable energy technology; sample lessons, materials, and curriculum activities; and a four-semester curriculum guide for renewable energy technology. This hands-on preconference session will also provide participants with an opportunity to complete design challenges, experiment with fuel pellets, and design a wind-powered demonstration device.
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ITEEA Teams Up With Four Other Associations on Digital Fabrication Article
 Writers from ITEEA, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, and the American Society for Engineering Educators have teamed up to write an article titled “Use of Digital Fabrication to Incorporate Engineering Design Principle in Elementary Mathematics Education” that is featured in the Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Journal.
The article is designed to show the collaboration of these five associations in teaching about and with technology in elementary mathematics instruction. The article was also directed at fostering STEM education, which is a fundamental challenge for education. President Obama (2009) recently addressed members of the National Academy of Sciences and called for an increased emphasis on hands-on learning to address this need when he said:
“I want to encourage young people to be makers of things, not just consumers of things.”
The President concluded that the future of the United States depends upon our ability to encourage young people to “create and build and invent.”
This article can be found at www.citejournal.org/vol10/iss2/editorial/article1.cfm.
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ITEEA/SITE Recognized With MacArthur 21st Century Learning Lab Award
 ITEEA and the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) have been recognized by the MacArthur Foundation for their joint effort to support children's engineering in the nation's schools. The Fab@School 3D fabricator is at the center of their winning entry in the first MacArthur Foundation Learning Labs competition. The Fab@School submission was selected from more than 800 entries in the competition, cosponsored by the MacArthur Foundation and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The ITEEA/SITE Fab@School project was designated by the sponsors as the "most novel use of new media in support of learning." Read about the award winners here.
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Children's Council of ITEEA (TECC) News
 • The membership of the Technology Education for Children’s Council (TECC) has voted in favor of changing its name to the Children’s Council of ITEEA. The membership voted to amend several items in the bylaws to include the vision, mission, and goal statements as well as changing from paper ballots to electronic voting.
• Cindy Jones, President of the Children’s Council of ITEEA, Dr. Marlene Scott, board member of ITEEA, along with Ginger Whiting and Kendall Starkweather, DTE were invited by the University of Virginia’s Glen Bull to participate on a committee to discuss the integration of Children’s Engineering into the elementary curriculum. Also participating on the committee were engineering representatives of several Virginia universities and UVA student observers.
• The Air Force Association recently awarded the State Teacher of the Year to Cindy Jones, President of the Children’s Council of ITEEA. Another AFA grant recipient was Allison Couillard, who was the recipient of the 2009 Mary Margaret Scobey Award, given annually by the Council. Allison is a teacher at J.B. Watkins Elementary School in Virginia.
• John Paul Gates, a P.E. teacher at J.B. Watkins Elementary School, has received the MCD Award for a creative educational project. His project, designed for 4th and 5th graders, will use stationary bikes to encourage physical fitness and to assess energy output. This project will use cross-curricular connections involving the math, physical education, statistics, problem solving, and Children's Engineering programs at Watkins ES. In addition, James River High School’s AP Environmental Science and Physics students will work with J.B. Watkins students to build the bikes and the energy tracking board. |
TEAP Becomes TEEAP
 The Technology Education Association of Pennsylvania (TEAP) has officially become the Technology and Engineering Education Association of Pennsylvania (TEEAP), as a result of the balloting of the association’s voting membership. TEEAP won by a 3 to 1 margin.
The name change properly positions the association to deal with the "T" & "E" of a strong STEM education and allows the association to begin to address curriculum and professional development that includes both technology and engineering education at the K-12 level. The association’s membership has been comprised of teachers who have been working in both areas, with some already having “engineering” in their department or course titles. Additionally, the Technology and Engineering Education Association of Pennsylvania (TEEAP) is now aligned with the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA).
TEEAP’s publication titles and electronic communications have started the transition to new names and addresses to be in line with the association’s new name. The association’s new primary web address is www.teeap.org.
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PBS' Design Squad...
 …is offering kids at home a chance to get in on the action: the 2010 Trash to Treasure Competition challenges kids to take everyday discarded or recycled materials and re-engineer them into functional products. Three grand-prize winners will win a trip to Boston to see their designs built and will appear on the TV show and website. Twenty-five finalists will also be featured on the website. Find out more and enter online at http://pbs.org/designsquad from April 5 to September 5, 2010.
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National TSA Conference Video Now Available
 A video from the 2010 National TSA Conference Awards Ceremony has received high praise from those in attendance. This video is an excellent marketing tool, and TSA is pleased to be able to make it available via a YouTube link. National TSA is grateful to Virginia TSA member Jason Dreyzehner from Abingdon High School for creating this video. Please feel free to use it in your school, community, and state to assist you in your promotion of TSA.
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Open Positions in Idaho
 Janel Kerr, Technology Education Instructor at the University of Idaho, writes to the IdeaGarden:
“My teacher education program is growing, but not quickly enough. Idaho has five open high school positions, with no one to apply for them. The few students that I graduated this year already have jobs. The openings are in the following schools:
Bonners Ferry High School, Lewiston High School, Skyline High School (Idaho Falls), Jerome High School, and Caldwell High School. If you know anyone who is looking, I would be happy to provide more information. Please help - I don't want these programs to close.”
You can contact Janel at: janelk@uidaho.edu or 208-885-6685. |
VCSU Establishes the Great Plains STEM Education Center
 The North Dakota State Board of Higher Education has approved a request from ITEEA Institutional Member, Valley City State University (VCSU), to establish the Great Plains STEM Education Center on the VCSU campus. The Center will provide STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education and training opportunities for K-12 students and teachers as an essential step in the process of increasing the technology and engineering capacity of the U.S. workforce.
Read the full article at: www.vcsu.edu/news/news.htm?id=6908 |
Engineering Technology Assessment
 Skills USA has announced that, with ITEEA’s assistance, it has released the Skill Connect Assessment for Engineering Technology. This assessment is available for sale at www.workforcereadysystem.org.
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Challenges and Competitions
 • Real World Design Challenge
The Real World Design Challenge is an annual high school competition run by a public-private partnership with the goal of sustainably increasing the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) workforce. The partners are focused on working within the context of the American educational system to transform STEM education in the United States by providing professional science and engineering and learning resources to students and teachers.
The Challenge is free to teachers and students. Each teacher gets $1 million in professional engineering software, and teams get access to professional mentors. Twenty-five governors have supported the “Governor’s Challenge” at the state level. The national competition is held each year in Washington, DC.
Students design a plane looking at the forces of flight with the aim of enhancing fuel efficiency. This year’s State Challenge will be posted on the RWDC website by mid-September 2010. Registration is open now.
For additional information, contact Dr. Ralph K. Coppola, Real World Design Challenge Director, at 703-298-6630 or via email at rcoppola@ptc.com. Or go to the RWDC website to register a team and learn more: www.realworlddesignchallenge.org.
• BEST Robotics Competition Powers Up with the VEX Robotics Control System
Powerful new VEXnet control system enhances capabilities and fuels growth of robotics competition
BEST (“Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology”) Robotics, Inc., a nonprofit robotics competition with national headquarters at Auburn University, has announced a multi-year partnership with VEX Robotics, Inc. BEST will adopt the company’s powerful new wireless VEXnet control system. This control system is part of the packet of supplies that is provided free of charge to each team that participates in BEST. In addition, BEST will continue to utilize the company-sponsored http://RobotEvents.com web portal to promote competition events and handle online team registration.
VEX Robotics also brings its robot programming software partners into the agreement. intelitek, Inc., developer of easyC, and the Robotics Academy at Carnegie Mellon University, developer of ROBOTC, will donate licenses of their software to every BEST team.
BEST is an equal opportunity program in which any public, private, or home school may participate with no entry fees or kit costs. Schools are only required to fund their travel costs, team tee shirts, and other team enhancements. The partnership with VEX Robotics, Inc. a subsidiary of Innovation First International, also allows BEST teams and hubs to sell the parent company’s popular HEXBUG Micro Robotic Creatures for fundraising at a profit to offset these incidental expenses.
• Teachers in Space Announces New Astronaut Competition
Teachers in Space has announced the start of a new astronaut-teacher competition. The nonprofit program is working with U.S. companies that are developing reusable suborbital spacecraft, which promises dramatic improvements in the cost and safety of human spaceflight. Teachers in Space already has 15 seats that have been donated or purchased for teachers, but the program’s goals go far beyond 15 teachers. In the long term, Teachers in Space plans to fly at least 200 teachers a year. “We want to put a thousand astronaut teachers into American schools within the next decade," said Teachers in Space project manager Edward Wright.
Teachers in Space has already selected seven Pathfinder astronaut teacher candidates. The Original Seven, who were announced on July 20, 2009 at NASA Ames Research Center, have already begun training for their flights into space, which are expected to occur in about two years. On July 12, 2010, Teachers in Space announced that it will be selecting three additional Pathfinders. The new competition, which is expected to last about a year, will begin within the next few weeks. Teachers who wish to be notified as soon as the competition begins should email apply@teachersinspace.org with “New Competition” in the subject line. Details on the new competition will soon be available at www.teachersinspace.org. |
Online Article
 Redesigning Education: Building Schools for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
By Trung Le, Fri Jun 4, 2010
Not since the Soviets launched Sputnik into Earth's orbit in the 1960s has there been such urgency for America to redesign science and math education programs. Now, in the third millennium, the initiative takes the form of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education. Research demonstrates that interest among American students in STEM subjects has greatly declined, a major issue, given that the STEM labor force is an indicator of a nation's ability to sustain itself. The new STEM initiative will launch with a bold mission: to reengage students in the joys of learning science and mathematics at all levels of education. Read more…
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New Books
 Engineering - Exciting! Interesting! Educational, and Fun!
Learn about the principles of engineering, mathematical processes, and sequenced graphical methods as they apply to some of the major areas of design, manufacturing, and construction. A thematic approach is taken to the teaching of what students need to learn about and how to consolidate this by what they learn to do.
Lifting Devices investigates cranes, Civil Structures analyses bridges. Household Appliances actually dismantles eight common appliances to understand how and why they work, and Graphical Engineering Mechanics presents easy-to-understand solutions to engineering problems solved graphically.
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Newsletter Articles
 • From Engineer Your Life
Introducing Engineer Your Life’s weekly blog and
e-newsletter – sign up now!
The EYL blog (http://engineeryourlife.weebly.com/) is a place where teenage girls can learn about cool engineering jobs, meet inspiring female engineers and students, and find fresh information on scholarships, events, and happenings in the engineering world. It's also a place for parents, educators, and engineers to find engineering resources, tips, and stories that will help you connect with young women about this exciting and rewarding field. To sign up for the EYL blog’s e-newsletter, send an email to: feedback@engineeryourlife.org. Each week we will send you a brief message that will contain the link to the latest post. Thank you!
Click here to check out the EYL blog. You can also find a link to the blog on EYL's homepage (next to the YouTube link).
Please share this with the girls you work with, and/or any colleagues, parents, educators, and engineers you know!
• From NSTA Express
Week of June 14, 2010
STEM Ed: Are We Beginning to See the Light?
A new snapshot of parent perceptions of STEM education was released last week following a survey conducted earlier this year by Public Agenda. While there's broad support from parents and the general public for K–12 national standards, more than half of parents (52%) say the math and science their child is getting in school is "fine as it is," contends Public Agenda in the survey report titled Are We Beginning to See the Light?
Survey results also indicate that the general public favors a “national curriculum” as one way of improving STEM education: 8 in 10 Americans say establishing a national curriculum in math would improve STEM education, with more than half (53%) saying it would improve it “a lot.” And 78% say the same about a national curriculum in science, with 48% saying it would improve it “a lot.”
Seventy percent of parents surveyed said they would also like to see their local schools spend more money on up-to-date and well-equipped science labs, more equipment for hands-on learning (69%), and more equipment to help students learn computer and technology skills (68%). The majority of parents with children in Grades 6–12 say they want to see more emphasis in their child’s school on STEM topics such as computer programming (65%), basic engineering principles (52%), and statistics and probability (49%).
While only 3 in 10 Americans see a demand for science and math-focused jobs in the current economy, 84% agree that there will be a lot more jobs in the future that require math and science skills. And 9 in 10 Americans say studying advanced math and science is useful even for students who don’t pursue a STEM career. Additionally, 88% of the public agrees that students with advanced math and science skills will have an advantage when it comes to college opportunities.
Read the Public Agenda report
• From Triangle Coalition Electronic Bulletin
June 24, 2010 - Volume 16, Number 25 Online Version
Triangle Coalition Annual Conference: STEM Innovation
The Triangle Coalition for Science and Technology Education will host its Annual Conference on STEM Education Policy on October 21-22, 2010 in Washington, DC at the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel. The conference will focus on the key issues confronting education leaders at all levels. The theme of this year's conference is "STEM Innovation…Leveraging Government, Education, and Business." It will focus on the transition from policy to practice, with panel discussions on Congress's legislative agenda, the Administration's education priorities, the implications of these issues to the various Federal Agencies with STEM education programs, and how state and local education leaders can build on these policies and influence educational excellence in their communities. The conference will conclude with attendees making visits to Capitol Hill to meet with Congressional delegates to discuss these key issues.
All Triangle Coalition members are eligible to receive a 20% discount on registration as described in a recent member email note. If you require having the discount code sent again, please contact us. All early birds who register before September 1 will save 10% on the cost of registration. To register or to find out more information about the conference, visit the conference webpage. While you are in town, make plans to attend the Inaugural USA Science and Engineering Festival and Expo to be held on the National Mall on Saturday and Sunday October 23-24.
RPI Professor Receives $2.9 Million Grant to Support Innovative Approach to Teaching and Learning STEM Disciplines
Rising concern about America's ability to maintain its competitive position in the global economy has renewed interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. The challenge, according to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Science and Technology Studies Professor Ron Eglash, is that minority students are often disinterested in STEM academics because they do not see its relevance to their own lives and communities. To provide a solution, Eglash has received a five-year, $2.9 million National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant to support the development of "The Triple Helix" project that is dedicated to producing "civic scientists." The grant will fund up to eight graduate fellows from Rensselaer. They will focus on STEM research projects related to community-based issues. These issues include health, the environment, poverty, crime, and information access within the Capital Region.
This fall, six fellows from the School of Science and School of Engineering at Rensselaer and two from STS in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences will be placed in a collaborative teaching program with local middle schools serving low-income and minority communities in upstate New York. The grant also includes an international component, as Eglash, along with several of the fellows and Rensselaer faculty involved in the project, will travel to the field research site in Kumasi, Ghana, to see how their approach might be used in a Third World context. More details are at www.sts.rpi.edu.
• From eGFI News For Teachers
Posted on June 14th, 2010 by ASEE
Spurred by growing concerns that American students lack the skills to compete in a global economy, school districts nationwide are packing engineering lessons into already crowded schedules for even the youngest students, giving priority to a subject that was once left to after-school robotics clubs and summer camps, or else waited until college, the New York Times reports. Districts cited include Glen Rock, NY, Manassas, VA, and Anderson, SC. Congress is considering legislation, the Engineering Education for Innovation Act, that provides grants to help integrate engineering into curricula.
Supporters say that engineering reinforces math and science skills, promotes critical thinking and creativity, and teaches students not to be afraid of taking intellectual risks. But the Times article cites experts who caution that engineering can’t be a substitute for good teaching.
More K-12 Education News
• From National Girls Collaborative Project E-Newsletter
June 7, 2010
Collaboration Conference
October 21 & 22, 2010
Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill
The National Girls Collaborative Project brings together organizations throughout the United States that are committed to informing and encouraging girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).The Collaboration Conference is an opportunity for representatives from these organizations to connect and learn from each other and national-level experts. Thanks to funding provided by the Noyce Foundation, NGCP is able to provide the opportunity for 50 practitioners, representing 25 organizations serving girls in STEM, to attend the Collaboration Conference at no cost. Scholarships will be provided to teams of two from selected organizations.
Regional collaborative leadership members will be in attendance as well as representatives from a wide variety of NGCP partners. For more information, please visit the Conference website.
NGCP Program Directory - Register your Program Today!
The online Program Directory lists organizations and programs that focus on motivating girls to pursue STEM careers. The purpose of the directory is to help organizations and individuals network, share resources, and collaborate on STEM-related projects for girls. When you sign up for the Program Directory you will enter your program description, resources available within your organization, program and/or organizational needs, and contact information.
Sign up for the NGCP E-Newsletter
About the EdLab Group
Email: kpeterson@edlabgroup.org
Website: www.ngcproject.org
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NASA News
 • RealWorld-InWorld NASA Engineering Design Challenge
The RealWorld-InWorld NASA Engineering Design Challenge invites high school students to work cooperatively as engineers and scientists to solve real-world problems related to the James Webb Space Telescope.
In Phase 1 of this education initiative, students explore and design solutions to two real-world problems related to the James Webb Space Telescope. For this phase, participants work in teams of three to five students. Final RealWorld project solutions from this first phase of the challenge are due on December 15, 2010.
Teams that complete Phase 1 are then paired with participating college engineering students to begin Phase 2, the InWorld phase of the challenge. Working in a virtual world setting, each newly formed InWorld team uses 21st Century tools to refine designs and create 3-D models of the Webb telescope.
For more information about the challenge, visit www.nasarealworldinworld.org/.
Questions about this opportunity should be directed to RWIW@nianet.org.
• Apply Now for Training Opportunity for Middle School Science Teachers
Middle school science teachers who will have a student teacher in their class in each of the next two years are encouraged to apply for the NASA-sponsored AMANTISS (Advancing Mentor and Novice Teachers in Space Science) project. The project’s goal is to help future teachers learn how to effectively include space science topics in their future classes. To achieve this goal, the project supports supervising teachers by providing training and classroom-ready materials.
This year, NASA is sponsoring 32 teachers to attend AMANTISS training August 10-12, 2010, at Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, CA. The training will feature the new GEMS Space Science Sequence for Grades 6-8.
Through a grant, selected mentor teachers will receive the following:
- Workshop fees and travel expenses paid to attend the August 2010 workshop in Berkeley.
- One complete GEMS materials kit and teachers guide for the GEMS Space Science Sequence for Grades 6-8 participants to keep.
- A second complete GEMS materials kit and teachers guide for the GEMS Space Science Sequence for Grades 6-8 for their preservice teachers to take with them to their future classrooms.
- Travel expenses to attend the 2012 NSTA National Conference and join other AMANTISS teachers.
- A $300 stipend for their final year of participation.
- A supportive network of other supervising teachers.
For more information and to apply online, visit http://lhsgems.org/AMANTISS.html.
Questions about this opportunity should be directed to Karen Milligan, at karmil@berkeley.edu or call 510-642-1981.
• NASA Announces a New Tool for Visualizing Distance-Rate-Time Problems
NASA has released an interactive online tool that enables students to simultaneously visualize and manipulate three linked representations of a distance-rate-time problem. The side-by-side tool format features two airplanes (each flying at a constant speed) on merging jet routes, the corresponding distance-vs.-time graphs, and the corresponding linear equations. Students can manipulate an airplane’s speed and starting position on its route, rotate or shift the associated line on the graph, and change the parameters of the associated equation. As students change one representation, the other representations update accordingly.
The free classroom materials include the tool, student workbooks, assessments, teacher guides, and alignments to Grades 5-9 mathematics standards for all 50 states. The new tool is an addition to FlyBy Math from NASA Smart Skies—distance-rate-time investigations that engage students in the challenges faced by air traffic controllers.
To access the new tool, visit www.smartskies.nasa.gov/flyby.
To access all of the Smart Skies mathematics investigations, visit www.smartskies.nasa.gov/.
Questions about the Smart Skies website and tools should be directed to
smartskies@mail.nasa.gov.
• NASA’s Electronic Professional Development Network Offering Podcasting Course
Are you a K-12 teacher of STEM disciplines? Are you looking for a way to enhance your instructional skills, meet your professional development goals, or find new and exciting resources to use in your learning environments? Then NASA’s Electronic Professional Development Network is for you!
NASA’s Learning Environments and Research Network and the Georgia Institute of Technology have teamed up to create the ePDN, a new initiative dedicated to preparing teachers to engage their students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) through the use of NASA-developed learning materials and resources.
The NASA ePDN Application Process is available for:Engage & Educate – Podcasts In the Classroom – designed for all teachers in Grades K-12 who are new to podcasting. In this course, participants will examine how podcasts can be integrated in the classroom and develop skills in using software tools to create, organize, and integrate podcasts in STEM areas using NASA resources.
Apply Here!
The ePDN offers:
- Free certificate programs (52 hours) in robotics, mathematics, Earth/space science, and technology integration.
- Flexibility to take individual courses within a certificate or to take the entire certificate program, both for CEU credit.
- Resources that teachers can use in the classroom or for personal development.
For more information on the ePDN, visit www.nasaepdn.gatech.edu.
• NASA’s Glenn Research Center to Release MUST Cooperative Agreements Notice
NASA’s Glenn Research Center is releasing a Cooperative Agreement Notice to invite proposals to administer the Motivating Undergraduates in Science and Technology project. The MUST project is a competitive scholarship opportunity for undergraduate students specifically targeting rising sophomores and juniors from underrepresented and underserved groups. The focus is on students majoring in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.
MUST Scholars who maintain the required minimum 3.0 GPA may renew through their senior year and are granted paid internships at NASA centers each summer. Participants also receive academic enrichment opportunities including access to tutoring, leadership development workshops, a formal mentoring system, and invitations to STEM lectures and other related programs. The MUST project addresses the national shortage of STEM fields by providing assistance and support to students during the early years of their collegiate experience.
Upon its release date, the CAN will be available electronically through http://nspires.nasaprs.com/.
Proposals will be accepted from Minority Serving Institutions, which include Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions and Tribal Colleges and Universities, and nonprofit organizations serving underserved and underrepresented students. Partnerships among these institutions and/or organizations are encouraged to apply.
Proposal due date and exact location of submissions will be identified in the CAN. Proposals received after that deadline will not be considered. For this notice, the provisions contained in the NASA Grant and Cooperative Agreement Handbook (NPR 5800.1) apply.
Please send direct questions specifically regarding this solicitation to: Saundra R. Gage at Saundra.R.Gage@nasa.gov. |
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