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 […]

Welcome back to School! Here’s a short slate of dates for student competitions and one for classroom funding. September 5 — Allen Distinguished Educator DIY Guidelines grants for K-12 classrooms (<=$1000) applications close. More info from Allen Distinguished Educators  Blog post summarizing the program FIRST(tm) Robotics programs have a two part registration: nationally, with FIRST, and locally […]

Chris Stephenson‘s SuperQuest presentation “And Now the Hard Work Begins: Achieving the Promise of Computer Science Education” was live-posted from SuperQuest in early August and I have now added the promised summary/scaffolding. Chris Stephenson is the Head of CS Education Programs at Google, the former founding Executive Director of ACM’s Computer Science Teacher Association, and a Eugene resident. […]

The Allen Distinguished Educators (ADE) program is now accepting applications for DIY Guide grants (up to $1,000) enabling teachers to bring more hands-on, project-based, authentic learning opportunities to their students. Applicants can choose from 11 award-winning computer science, engineering, and/or entrepreneurship projects from burrito-fueled STEM explorations, to coding cultural understanding, to engineering habitats for hermit […]

The CS10K Community is offering a webinar on Tuesday, July 26 at 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET on how teachers can secure funding and support for their their CS classrooms. Guests Alabama teacher Gina McCarley, Karen Parker of Google’s CS4HS, and Kirk Smiley of DonorsChoose will join webinar host Deepa Muralidhar to provide helpful tips on how […]

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 […]

Saturday morning bright and early 70+ people gathered at Mentor Graphics Commons to discuss Computer Science (CS) Education in Oregon. The packed half-day agenda was put together by the Oregon Computer Science Teachers Association (OCSTA), and gives OCSTA food for thought for similar events in the future. Speakers and their bios are listed here. Key […]

Congratulations to Mark Gullicksen, Oak Grove Elementary School, in Albany. He got some “good STEM news” which he thinks “is a direct benefit from my involvement with OCSTA’s professional development opportunities that I have participated with as an educator. This Monday, I was humbled to learn that I was selected as one of 20 teachers, […]

Jo Oshiro here. I have met many of you at previous SuperQuests, OregonASK events, and various meetings around STEM education, grants, and equity, or through my email blasts “In the OPASsphere.” I and my colleagues will be sharing information through this blog. I’ve got six main categories lined up: SuperQuest — Randy Macdonald and Janis Steinfeld are […]