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.
