News & Events
Current News & Events
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11/11/2009 - 11/14/2009
The ITEST program will be represented in five different sessions at Evaluation 2009, the Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Associaition (AEA). Please let Alyssa Na’im of the ITEST LRC know if you will be presenting at or attending the conference.
Changing Horses Mid-Stream: Lessons Learned From Evaluator Transitions During Two Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)...
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10/29/2009
This webinar will focus on current research findings related to youth motivation and STEM career development. Join us to hear from ITEST projects working across the U.S. and learn specific strategies for as well as successes and challenges with fostering and assessing youth motivation and STEM career interest. The presentation will additionally include project-level findings of youth’s development in these areas.
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10/09/2009
UC Davis Dateline article announcing the new STEMware ITEST project for the Partnership for Biotechnology and Genomics Education.
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10/08/2009
Moderator: Sarita Pillai, NSF ITEST Learning Resource Center, Education Development Center, Inc.
With a focus on student/youth diversity, this webinar highlighted specific strategies, successes and challenges related to engaging these diverse learners in STEM education and the workforce.
• What are the gender specific and/or culturally relevant strategies that nurture interest and support persistence in engagement with STEM for specific sub-populations of youth?
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10/08/2009
Source: National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Release date: September 22, 2009
A West Virginia high-school student analyzing data from a giant radio telescope has discovered a new astronomical object -- a strange type of neutron star called a rotating radio transient. The student, a sophomore at South Harrison High School in Clarksburg, W.Va., made the discovery while participating in a project in which students are trained to scrutinize data from the National Science Foundation's...
Current Opportunities
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October 21, 2009
SITE 2010
Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education
International ConferenceMarch 29-April 2, 2010 * San Diego, CA
(Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina)
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
** Submissions Due: Oct. 21, 2009 **
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January 18, 2010
The Toyota TAPESTRY Grants for Science Teachers program, sponsored by Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., and administered by NSTA, is now accepting entries for the 2009–2010 competition. Now in its 20th year, the program offers grants up to $10,000 to K–12 science teachers for innovative projects that enhance science education in their school and/or school district over a one-year period....
Past News & Events
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10/08/2009
Moderator: Sarita Pillai, NSF ITEST Learning Resource Center, Education Development Center, Inc.
With a focus on student/youth diversity, this webinar highlighted specific strategies, successes and challenges related to engaging these diverse learners in STEM education and the workforce.
• What are the gender specific and/or culturally relevant strategies that nurture interest...
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10/08/2009
Source: National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Release date: September 22, 2009
A West Virginia high-school student analyzing data from a giant radio telescope has discovered a new astronomical object -- a strange type of neutron star called a rotating radio transient. The student, a sophomore at South Harrison High School in Clarksburg, W.Va., made the discovery while participating in a... -
10/02/2009
Learn about ITEST and what's coming up and news from projects in this quarterly newsletter. Click the attachment below to view the newsletter.
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09/14/2009
Ask Education Secretary Arne Duncan
On Tuesday, September 15, at 8pm ET, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will be holding a national town hall meeting as part of his "Listening and Learning: A Conversation about Education Reform" tour. This tour is in anticipation of the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, also known as the No Child Left Behind Act....
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08/06/2009
In an effort to expand our social media outreach, the ITEST LRC has an updated URL for our Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/ITEST.Learning.Resource.CenterAdditionally, you can follow the LRC on twitter at:
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07/22/2009
Don’t miss Girlstart’s first virtual conference in Second Life on July 22, 2009! The Project IT Girl Showcase in Second Life will take place on the Educators Coop Island at 2pm CST (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Educators%20Coop%201/28/112/24).
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07/20/2009
LETTER
Closing STEM Gender Gap Through Special Programs
To the Editor:
We were pleased to read your thoughtful and well-researched story on gender representation in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (“Researchers Mull STEM Gender Gap,” June 17, 2009). In our work, we collaborate nationally with organizations exposing students to stem careers in... -
07/14/2009 - 08/14/2009
New data show that enrollment in U.S. science and engineering (S&E) graduate programs in 2007 grew 3.3 percent over comparable data for 2006--the highest year-over-year increase since 2002 and nearly double the 1.7 percent increase seen in 2006. Science programs added the most students in absolute numbers, but engineering's percentage growth over 2006, 5.9 percent, was substantially higher...
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07/01/2009
This video produced by a LiveScience.org captures the impact and excitement of the Build IT Underwater Robotics Competition on June 3rd, 2009. Robots designed, built and run by Middle School and High School students compete underwater. Event hosted by the Stevens Institute of Technology, well known for its ocean-engineering programs.
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06/28/2009 - 07/01/2009
ITEST was represented at the ISTE/NECC 2009 Conference in a number of ways. The ITEST LRC helped coordinate submissions for the following sessions. (Details on the presentations are attached.)
- Eleven ITEST projects, including the LRC, showcased their projects during the poster sessions on Tuesday, June 30, 2009.
- A group of ITEST evaluators hosted a panel, moderated by...
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06/26/2009 - 07/01/2009
ITEST Program PIs and and ITEST LRC personnel participated in the recent NECC conference. To see a description of—and links to—sessions involving ITEST projects, see LRC Liaison Alyssa Na’im’s post here: http://itestlrc.edc.org/itest-projects-istenecc-2009
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06/16/2009
In Be The Game, high school students mentor peers and use game design as a tool for teaching science, technology, engineering, and math, and the program's high tech bus travels to locations where tech facilities are not available. This feature on the Edutopia website profiles the Game Design Through Mentoring and Collaboration ITEST Project.
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06/16/2009
Exploring the planets and stars and turning some of the discoveries into an online game -- it's a girls only mission with a group of students from the ASA Academy in Oakland. About a dozen girls, from 6th through 12th grade, have joined an afterschool program called Universe Quest. They're learning about astronomy and building their own 3-D, immersive online game that centers around creating...
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05/19/2009
TechREACH, a program of the Puget Sound Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology (PSCTLT) has received a $7,500 Google RISE (Roots in Science and Engineering) Award.
PSCTLT Newsletter - Lynnwood, WA - May 19, 2009This is the first year of the Google RISE awards and 30 organizations across the United States received funding. PSCTLT's one-year grant, TechREACH: Delivering...
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05/07/2009
In a single sentence, “I like robots,” 14-year-old Noe Valdez, an eighth grade student at Mesa’s Carson Junior High School, summed up his reason for joining 29 other students for a year-round informal learning odyssey into space exploration and other exploits focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The after- school and summer program, presented by Arizona State...
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04/13/2009 - 04/17/2009
“Disciplined Inquiry: Education Research in the Circle of Knowledge”
Monday, April 13 – Friday, April 17, 2009 in San Diego, CAYouth from Arizona (Social Justice Education Project and COMPUGIRLS) will be presenting at AERA this year--Wednesday, April 15th at 2:15-3:45 San Diego Convention Center Rm 30A. This panel is a not-to-be-missed event that will ground the...
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04/06/2009 - 04/24/2009
April 6-24, 09 - The After-School Link to Learning - The AED is pleased to announce the fourth national call for promising practices in afterschool, funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, focusing on "THE AFTER-SCHOOL LINK TO LEARNING." Read the FAQs about PPAS.
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04/01/2009
Bio-ITEST Press Release
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03/02/2009 - 03/06/2009
Click on the attachment to view ITEST projects presentations and panels at the 2009 SITE conference.
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03/02/2009
Sarita Saju, student from George Washington High School involved in the ITEST-Nano program, recently received top awards at science fairs for her nanotechnology project, titled "Polymer-Wrapped Carbon Nanotubes as Electrode Materials for Supercapacitors." Her project was based on work during her internship with expert scientists from the School of Engineering and Applied Science....
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02/26/2009 - 02/27/2009
Preparing Tomorrow's STEM Workforce Through Exploration, Equity, and Engagement - Access event highlights now at the event blog by clicking on the website link below.
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02/16/2009
One of SUCCEED high school interns, Kelley Katzenmeyer from Riverside, led a team of kids at Shodor to put together a video entry to the "Voices of the South" contest, and she won first place with her video about the ITEST apprentices and interns at Shodor learning the skills to be computational scientists working on the National Science Digital Library.
See the winning video at...
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01/12/2009
Nancy's documentary was one of several presented recently to friends and relatives during a ceremony for 60 teen girls in various phases of an Arizona State University education outreach program called COMPUGIRLS. Click the attachment below to read the full article.
Past Opportunities
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Call for Papers/Abstracts and Invited Sessions Proposals for The 2nd International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technological Innovation (July 10th-13th, 2009 - Orlando, Florida, USA).
Deadlines for papers accepted before or on January 14th, 2009
December 19th, 2008: Submission of draft papers (2000-5000 words), extended abstracts (400-2000 words) and... -
Grant: "Siemens High School Competition in Math, Science & Technology" where students have an opportunity to achieve national recognition for science research projects that they complete in high school.
THE DEADLINE FOR THE 2008-09 SIEMENS COMPETITION HAS PASSED
The names of the Semifinalists and Regional Finalists will by posted on the Siemens Foundation website by 2 pm on... -
This year Toyota will award $550,000 in grants to K-12 teachers of science. A total of 50 large grants of up to $10,000 each, along with 20-30 mini-grants of up to $2,500 each, will be awarded. Categories include environmental science, integrating literacy and science, and physical science.
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Proposal Submission Deadline: June 30, 2009
Serious Educational Game Assessment
Sense PublishersA book edited by Dr. Len Annetta (North Carolina State University) & Stephen Bronack (Clemson University)
Background
In an increasingly scientific and technological world the need for a knowledgeable citizenry, individuals who understand the fundamentals of...
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Call for Book Chapter Proposals
“Emerging Technologies for Learning:
Impact on Cognition and Culture”Published by: AACE–Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
Distributed by:
EdITLib–Educational & Information Technology Digital LibraryIf you are interested in contributing to a collaborative book on “Emerging Technologies for...
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NASA's Office of Education, in cooperation with NASA's Aeronautics, Exploration Systems, Science, and Space Operations Mission Directorates, is looking for individuals who are interested in the NASA Research Announcement (NRA): Competitive Program for Science Museums and Planetariums (CP4SMP)* (Announcement Number NNH09ZNE005N) to volunteer as a peer reviewer or to nominate others for...
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Office of Education
NASA Research Announcement
Release Date: July 10, 2009
Pre-Proposal Tele-Conference (optional) August 10, 2009
Proposals Due: September 10, 2009Link and PDF document available for details.
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SITE 2010
Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education
International ConferenceMarch 29-April 2, 2010 * San Diego, CA
(Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina)
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
** Submissions Due: Oct. 21, 2009 **
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The Toyota TAPESTRY Grants for Science Teachers program, sponsored by Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., and administered by NSTA, is now accepting entries for the 2009–2010 competition. Now in its 20th year, the program offers grants up to $10,000 to K–12 science teachers for innovative projects that enhance science education in their school and/or school district over a one-year period....
Education, Employment, & Community Programs (EEC)
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55 Chapel Street, Newton, MA 02458
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0737638.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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