Last Chance to Register for Fall SuperQuest!
Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity for Professional Development offered by the Oregon CSTA — Teachers teaching teachers. Learn about continued opportunities for receiving a stipend to join a Professional Learning Community (PLC), or how you can host a customized Pop-Up SuperQuest event at your school. Meet and network with other educators and CS professionals. […]
Target Field Trip Grants for School-based Educators
Target Corporation Field Trip grants (<=$700) closes Oct 1, 11:59 pm Central Time for field trips February 2017 – December 2017 funds for transportation, tickets, food, resource materials, supplies education professionals employed by public, private, charter K-12 school swith 501(c)(3) or 509(a)(1) tax-exempt status show student learning Apply online. There’s always the science museum and […]
SuperQuest: What Goes on Here Does Not Stay Here
One of the educators in Melissa Kessler’s App Inventor class in Pendleton teaches preschool — and she came out of the class confident that she can use ScratchJr this fall, to help the kids she works with have fun, learn, and have some control. No more App specific classes this summer, but there are Game Development […]
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SuperQuest Wilsonville: ODE talks CTE
Tom Thompson, Industrial and Engineering Systems Education Specialist at the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) came for lunch — and we had him give a dog and pony show: “The Current Status and Future Direction of CTE in Oregon”. His slides are here. Key points: CTE = Career and Technical Education CTE is about education and about […]
SuperQuest Wilsonville In Progress – 2
Teachers teaching teachers … silence in the room, except for the chuk-chuk-shhh-chuk of the 3D printer. Chris here has been to many SuperQuests; usually I see him in one of the robotics classes, but this time he’s in Digital Design and Manufacturing. His classmates are working the vinyl cutter and the CAD software on their […]
SuperQuest Free Professional Development: Updates
Registrations for all 7 sites now open. More Graduate Credit options approved. More courses at multiple sites. New courses. FAQ added to the pulldown menu. Change of venue in Wilsonville. Check it out at oregoncsta.org. Changes have been coming fast and furious — kinda like playing PacMan or Asteroids, so I have been mostly absent from […]
Finding Industry-Endorsed Content for K-12+
Many STEM professional associations (think the OEA of engineering) have education, outreach, or foundation efforts aimed at developing a workforce of like-minded individuals. Some of these efforts are websites with games or stories, some are event-based, and some are online lesson repositories and/or career information. SEMI High Tech U, a several-day event. Historically, here in […]