Silicon Valley Engineering Council Engineering Education Awards

Attention Silicon Valley Teachers! Know any engineering or technology High School Seniors or Undergraduates? Please pass on the news about this awesome opportunity to win a $1,000 scholarship from the Silicon Valley Engineering Council! The February 5th deadline is quickly approaching.

The Silicon Valley Engineering Council (SVEC) Engineering  Education Awards recognize young engineering and technology students for their dedication, focus, and commitment to engineering with scholarships of $1,000. Engineering and Technology students graduating from high school, or presently enrolled in undergraduate community college and university programs are eligible to apply. Fulltime and part-time students are eligible. Students may receive an SVEC Scholarship award only once. Scholarship winners will be announced and awarded at the Annual SVEC Engineers Week Banquet on February 24, 2011.

Eligible students should submit their completed application by February 5, 2011. For eligibility requirements, to download an application, and for additional information, please visit http://www.svec.org/scholarship-awards.html

The IISME Community Website - Free curriculum at your fingertips!

Are you looking for innovative, standards-based curriculum that will excite your students? Then you have come to the right place!

Explore the many pieces of exemplary curriculum designed by IISME Fellows at the IISME Community Website!  Each IISME Fellow creates an Education Transfer Plan (ETP) to help bring their industry or research lab summer experience back to their students.  These ETP's are peer reviewed pieces of exemplary curriculum and are available online for all educators to utilize...for FREE! 

All activities, handouts, teacher notes and assessment pieces for each ETP can be downloaded and modified to suit the specific needs of your classroom.  What's even better? You can search by subject area, grade level, and key word(s)!  The possibilities are endless! Check it out! http://community.iisme.org

Upcoming Conferences for Educators!

Looking for an exciting conference to attend? 

Here are three upcoming conferences for educators:

STEMgrants Virtual Conference – From your Computer!

The 2011 STEMgrants Virtual Conference will be held from March 1-4, 2011and is focused on connecting educators with STEM funding through a series of virtual workshops!  From the comfort of your computer you can learn how to find STEM funding, write grant proposals and win awards.  Each presentation consists of live video of the speaker, simultaneous PowerPoint presentations and Q&A’s in real-time! Worried about missing a session? If you miss a live session, you will be able to watch a recorded version for up to 30 days!

There is also a full line-up of engaging keynote speakers to kick-off each day of the conference. Keynote Speakers include:

• Dr. Douglas Arion, President, Galileoscope LLC
• Darlene Cavalier, Founder, ScienceCheerleader.com
• Dr. Ioannis Miaoulis, President, Boston Museum of Science
• Dr. Winston Scott, Astronaut and Dean or Aeronautics, Florida Tech

Register by February 15^th and receive an Early Bird Discount! For $99 per person, you will have access to all of the live sessions! After February 15^th, the cost goes up to $129 per person.

For more information and to register, please visit: http://stemconference.com/

SVCUE Technology Conference – San Jose, CA

The Silicon Valley Computer Using Educators (SVCUE) will be holding their annual Technology Conference entitled “T3: Teach Through Technology” on Saturday, March 12, 2011 from 8am to 3pm in San Jose, CA.  This one-day conference will focus on the ways teachers can integrate the technology they have been given (or are seeking to obtain) into their curriculum! If you register by March 4^th, the cost to attend is $40 for SVCUE Members and $50 for non-SVCUE members. Register before January 16^th and save $10! 

IISME will be exhibiting at this conference, so please don't forget to stop by and say hello!

For more information on SVCUE and to register for this conference, please visit: http://www.svcue.org/

The NSTA’s National Conference on Science Education – San Francisco, CA

Begin the new year with resolve to get personal and professional development in 2011. Build your experiences in science education at the National Science Teachers Association’s (NSTA) National Conference on Science Education in San Francisco. Scheduled for March 10-13, more than 2,000 sessions will be offered—hands-on workshops, seminars, and symposia will increase your content knowledge, performance strategies, and techniques in the classroom. Nationally known presenters will inspire and inform. Thousands of your peers will share ideas, experiences, and challenges. Invest in yourself, your career, and your future. Register before January 14^th to save the most.  For more information and to register, please visit: http://www.nsta.org/conferences/2011SAN/

Sessions and presentations include:

• Featured Presentation: Ira Flatow, President and Executive Producer, NPR’s Science Friday
• Giving Elementary Science Teachers the Confidence, Skills, and Experience to Teach Chemistry. (lesson plans, strategies, and rubrics are the take-away’s.)
• Shaping Children's Views of Science by Doing and Knowing About Inquiry. Elementary, (research-based techniques)
• Linking Assessment to Teaching: Ideas and Evidence. Middle School
• From Cells to Sea Ice: Analyzing Data from Digital Images. Middle-High
• Developing Literacy and Addressing Content Standards Through Issue-oriented Science. Middle-High
• Variation, Selection, and Time. (Natural selection) Middle-High
• Hands-On Learning Activities for AP Biology. High School
• NASA Brings You Newton's Laws of Motion. 20 hands-on investigations. Middle-High
• Featured Presentation: Deeply Digital Science Teaching, Chad Dorsey, Pres, CEO, The Concord Consortium
• Featured Presentation: Dr. Art’s Planet Earth Show. Art Sussman, Sr Project Director, WestEd
• Exhibit Hall—test and try the most cutting edge products from companies across the nation. Bring an extra tote for giveaways. 
• Field trips (ticketed) for real discovery. USS Pampanito, Lawrence Hall of Science, the Match Science Nucleus, Wes Gordon Fossil Hall, the Tech Museum, RAFT, and more. 

On a side note, don't forget, if you are a San Francisco Bay Area Teacher interested in applying for a paid IISME Summer Fellowship, please visit: http://iisme.org!  The next Applicant Workshop (Information Session) for interested teachers will be on January 25, 2011 in San Francisco.  Please visit http://iisme.org for details and to register!

IISME Summer Fellowship Program

 Attention San Francisco Bay Area Teachers!

Are you ready to experience a summer of innovation, collaboration, renewed energy and professional growth?

Apply for a paid IISME Summer Fellowship! IISME's Summer Fellowship Program provides paid, challenging, 8-week summer work opportunities for San Francisco Bay Area K-16 educators in corporations and universities. Teachers complete a project for their sponsors and also receive paid time to transfer their Summer Fellowship experience back to their students. Earn $8,200 this summer and return to your classroom in the Fall with new resources, teaching strategies, updated knowledge and renewed energy!

You can learn more about this unique professional development opportunity and receive tips for how to best show off your abilities and interests in the application to increase your chances of being selected in this competitive process by attending a 90-minute information session!

In this workshop, you will:

1. Learn more about the IISME Summer Fellowship Program.
2. Learn about the application and Fellowship Matching process.
3. Hear how the program impacts teachers from a teacher who has held an IISME Fellowship.
4. Learn valuable tips to increase your chances of being selected for an IISME Fellowship.

Find out how an IISME Fellowship can enrich your summer as an educator and learn about the financial benefits as well.  REGISTER TODAY to attend this FREE Applicant Workshop by visiting http://iisme.org/PublicCalendar.cfm?requestlimit=workshop logging in and selecting the date and location that's best for you!

• Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at the Krause Center for Innovation (KCI) in Los Altos.
• Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at Independence High School in San Francisco.
• Thursday, February 10, 2011 at Resource Area for Teaching (RAFT) in San Jose.
• Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at Emery Secondary in Emeryville.
• Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at Silver Creek High School in San Jose.

Teachers are eligible to apply for the IISME Summer Fellowship Program if they meet the following requirements:

• Minimum of two years teaching experience in any discipline by June of the current school year.                     
• Currently teaching any K-16 grade level within the IISME service area: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz counties.                     
• Contracted to teach during the 2011-2012 school year within the IISME service area (Administrator verification required).                     
• Committed to work in education for at least the next three years.              
• Have a legal right and necessary documents to work in the U.S. in a non-teaching job.                     
• Available full-time during standard business hours for the Fellowship period.

For more information on IISME and the Summer Fellowship Program, please visit http://iisme.org!