TEAP Online Newsletter

 Volume 3, No. 1 - January 2005

Dear Technology Educators & TEAP Members,
Welcome to the January edition of TEAP-Online Newsletter! This months newsletter includes some great deals on ITEA Memberships and some great ways to get the community involved in your programs. In addition, This months news letter contains two great grant opportunities... And while on the subject of grants... Congrats to Bill Hughes for being awarded one of the Best Buy Te@ch Grants, mentioned in the July/August 2004 edition of this newsletter!
 

ITEA Offers Student Teacher Membership Deal!

 

If you have a student teacher and want to get them off on the right foot professionally, get them to join the ITEA at the first time rate of $25.00 for a year of membership. This must be done before the conference. This is a great savings and will provide them with professional information and insurance. Go to http://www.iteaconnect.org and get them to sign up today! You can also have them see what is happening in the profession at the site.
 

HP Technology for Teaching Grant

 

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) will award grants totaling $5 million in cash and HP equipment over two years to K-12 public schools and two- and four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. This grant initiative is designed to support K-16 educators who are using mobile technology in innovative ways, and to help identify K-12 schools and higher education institutions that HP might support with future grants. Based on the outcomes of the projects funded through this initiative in 2005, HP will offer grant recipients the opportunity to receive higher-value grants in 2006. The application deadline is February 15, 2005 and winners will be notified by May 1, 2005.

http://grants.hp.com/us/programs/tech_teaching/index.html
 

SMARTer Kids Grant for SMART Products
 SMARTer Kids Grant for SMART Products is an educational award that helps educators purchase SMART products for their classrooms. Developed by the SMARTer Kids Foundation, the Grant has helped tens of thousands of K-12 schools, higher-education facilities and technical institutions acquire interactive technology by increasing its affordability.

 

- Applications must be received prior to midnight, September 30, 2005 

- Grants must be utilized by October 31, 2005

Technology Education Advisory Boards

Trying to develop more community involvement in your program?

Looking for input from industry and members of the community?

Looking for a group to help you promote technology education with your administration?

Web Design Competition

The US Department of State sponsors an annual Web page design competition, Doors to Diplomacy. Teams of middle school and high school students design, research and develop an informational Web page featuring information about one of eight study topics. Included among the eight categories are science and Technology, Safety and Security, Health and environmental Awareness. Cash prizes and a trip to Washington DC for students and adult coaches. http://future.state.gov/what/special/doors_2005.html

 

Web projects from 2004 can be viewed: http://future.state.gov/what/special/doors_2005.html

 

The Department contact for the contest is:
 Alisha J. Earle, Office of Intergovernmental Affairs
U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC 20520
Tel. (202) 647-6433   Fax (202) 647-1579   earleaj@state.gov
 

Celebrate Black History Month!
Celebrate Black History Month in February with biographical posters of black technologists--Lewis Latimer (improved light bulb filament), George Washington Carver (agricultural innovations), and Garrett Morgan (firefighter's hood and traffic signal). And don't miss Tech Direction's new Black History Pioneers series, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and The Tuskegee Airmen. See them all at www.techdirections.com/html/bhm.html.

Special offer: Save 25% now through February 2! Orders received by February 2 will receive a 25% discount off the list price--that's less than $10 a poster! Posters will ship by February 4.
Decorate your classroom walls while inspiring and informing your students about this important part of America's past!

Offer expires February 2, 2005.
 

Great Sites Online!
Below are a large list of online resources that may be useful to you in your day to day classroom activities. Thanks to Jeff Seamans for some great links!
 

  • HGTV Pro - http://www.hgtvpro.com/

    • As a professional, it's more important than ever to stay on top of what's new and what's changing in homebuilding. Your customer's knowledge about homebuilding has grown, too. Now there's a strong, relevant source of information at your fingertips: HGTVPro.com, a website for professional homebuilders, contractors and remodelers.
       

  • Punkin Chunkin - http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/catapult/chunkers/chunkers.html

    • Medieval catapults and their modern variants have re-emerged in recent years and taken a new foothold in popular culture. They are the centerpiece to a new variety of brain and brawn sport: Punkin Chunkin — a contest to catapult a pumpkin as far as possible. 
       

  • Sights & Sounds of Titan - http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/16jan_titan.htm?list1011663 

    • The ESA Huygens probe parachuted to Titan on Jan. 14th, landed safely, and transmitted the first sounds and pictures from the surface of Saturn's giant moon.
       

  • 2005 Westpoint Bridgebuilder - http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/download.htm

    • The West Point Bridge Designer 2005 is the only software that you can use to enter the 2005 West Point Bridge Design Contest. This software will introduce you to engineering through an authentic, hands-on design experience. WPBD 2005 provides you with the tools to model, test, and optimize a steel highway bridge, based on realistic specifications, constraints, and performance criteria.
       

  • TeachEngineering - http://www.teachengineering.com/

    • The TeachEngineering digital library collection is your resource to find engaging curricular units, lessons, activities and living laboratories to use in teaching science and math to K-12 students through the application of engineering design and principles.

Yahoo! Groups

Please consider joining one of the TEAP-Online Yahoo-Groups. These services provide members with the ability upload files, and chat using Yahoo chat services, as well as providing another form of communication for your the members of our association. To join please visit the group websites at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEAP_Online/ and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TEAP-Connections/
 

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