Cohort 3 RFP’s Are Due Now
Now is the best time to bring the AOE model to your school. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) will provide states with more than $58 billion in education funding before spring 2010. The PLTW curriculum meets all necessary requirements for funding. The NAF staff can assist your schools/districts in preparing an application for ARRA funding. These funds can help to implement an AOE.
If you have any questions or need additional information please do not hesitate to contact Crickett Thomas-O’Dell at codell1@nycap.rr.com
Webinar to focus on getting girls interested in engineering
Project Lead The Way® (PLTW®) is joining forces with Engineer Your Life (EYL), to increase the participation of girls in Gateway To Technology® (GTT®) and HS engineering courses.
PLTW® and EYL will present the online webinar:
Focus Your Future: Getting Girls Interested in Engineering
Thursday, October 22
4:00 pm EST, 1:00 pm PST
Join us for this one-hour webinar and you will receive the tools you need to increase your participation of girls in your program.
Topics include:
• free resources
• what girls want in a career
• why girls aren’t choosing engineering
• how to talk to girls about engineering
TO REGISTER, copy the following link into your browser:
https://wgbh.webex.com/wgbh/onstage/g.php?d=666235096&t=a
On WGBH site under event status, click “register” on left side of page.
EVENT PASSWORD (case sensitive): Engineer2009
If you can’t attend this webinar live, register and you will receive the links for the archived webinar and free resources.
TECHNICAL INFO:
Presentation can be seen and heard through your computer. There is no need to call into the teleconference unless you have difficulty with your computer’s audio.
TECHINICAL REQUIREMENTS: QuickTime player
(To view a 2-minute video during the presentation, you will need the current version of QuickTime. You may download and install this free player on your Mac or PC by visiting http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/)
EYL is a national campaign to showcase engineering as an exciting and rewarding career choice for high school girls. Seventy-nine percent (79%) of girls who are familiar with the EYL web site report engineering as their number 1 job choice.
FOR INFORMATION ON EYL AND PLTW, VISIT:
o Engineer Your Life: www.EngineerYourLife.org
o Project Lead The Way®: www.pltw.org
Four CMS schools to open Academies of Engineering — Charlotte
http://www.cms.k12.nc.us/news/Pages/FourCMSschoolstoopenAcademiesofEngineering.aspx
University High School hopes success can be engineered — LA Times
Check out this great article by the LA Times on one of our Academies — University High School in West Los Angeles.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uni2-2009jun02,0,5173713.story
AOE Opening Celebration planned in Charlotte, NC
Charlotte, NC, May 1, 2008 — Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, in partnership with the Academy of Engineering (AOE), will host a breakfast celebration to honor the opening of four Academies in Charlotte, Monday, May 18.
The four schools — Hopewell High School, Mallard Creek High School, Phillip O. Berry Academy of Technology and Vance High School — will be among 31 schools in the United States to have successfully completed a year of planning and receive approval to operate as an AOE. In addition, the schools represent four of only five in the country to offer a motorsports component.
For more information, click here to view flyer.
Pilot academy receives good reviews
University High School, a pilot Academy of Engineering, was recently praised by Sam Rubin.
Visit his blog for more information.
13 new Academies of Engineering open across the country
Ground-breaking partnership helps prepare students to meet U.S. need for engineers
New York, NY, August 15, 2008— After a successful year of planning, 13 Academy of Engineering (AOE) sites across the country are opening their doors this fall. Designed for 9th – 12th graders, the Academies are part of a ground-breaking partnership between the National Academy Foundation (NAF), Project Lead The Way, Inc. (PLTW) and the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) to help address America’s escalating need for men and women with skills in science and engineering.
The Academies of Engineering are small learning communities, or schools-within-a-school, with an underrepresented minority student-enrollment focus, built on a solid academic foundation that adheres to national and state standards in mathematics, science and technology. Courses are taught around a broad technical core-curriculum which prepares students to pursue post-secondary engineering and engineering technology degree programs.
The AOE partnership combines NAF’s 26-year history of success in career-themed academies, PLTW’s curriculum expertise focused on math and science and NACME’s vital connection to engineering via university and corporate partnerships. In its first year of implementation, the partnership looks to grow into a national network of 110 Academies by 2011.
“The AOE project blends the dynamic and unique attributes of three dedicated and altruistic organizations,” said Richard Liebich, PLTW CEO and Chairman. “The resulting educational partnership should have significant impact on attracting and retaining the quality, quantity and diversity essential for the nation’s future engineering and technical workforce.”
The initial 13 pilot sites are located at the following high schools and cities:
High Schools for Construction Trades, Engineering & Architecture – Queens, NY
Frederick Douglass High School – Atlanta, GA
AJ Moore Academy – Waco, TX
H. Grady Spruce High School – Dallas, TX
East High School on Arcadia – Columbus, OH
University High School – Los Angeles, CA
EDT Academy Morse High School – San Diego, CA
Patrick Henry High School – San Diego, CA
James Madison High School – San Diego, CA
Harmony Magnet Academy – Strathmore, CA
Burton High School – San Francisco, CA
Northwest Career and Technical Academy – Las Vegas, NV
Technology, Engineering & Communications School – Burien, WA
Demand for qualified, highly-trained engineers in the United States is on the rise. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, four of the top 30 fastest growing occupations through 2014 will be in engineering-related fields. The Bureau projects that this will result in more than 386,000 new engineering job openings. Current trends, however, show the supply of U.S. educated engineers is waning. Not enough students are graduating high school with sufficient math and science skills, and not enough college students are pursuing education majors.
“There are two crises in our schools that these Academies will help to address,” said NAF President JD Hoye. “They will encourage students, especially minority kids in inner-city schools, to focus on their future careers. At the same time, this initiative addresses the acute shortage of engineers available to America’s employers.”
The Academies will also ready students for other post-secondary studies that require a strong foundation in engineering, math, science and language arts. Corporations provide paid internships and serve as volunteers, mentors and members of local advisory boards.
“NACME is pleased to be joining NAF and Project Lead The Way in launching a national network of urban-centered, open enrollment, high school Academies of Engineering that will provide students with the science and math skills required to be college-ready for engineering study,” said Dr. John Brooks Slaughter, President & CEO, NACME, Inc. “By involving parents, community resources, local corporations, and two-year and four-year colleges in the activities of the academies, we anticipate a dramatic increase in the number of underrepresented minorities prepared to engage in engineering education.”
