Event: Engineering Day, Feb. 28, Richmond, VA
Posted on January 15th, 2010 by ASEE
Several contests are being planned to be held at the Science Museum of Virginia on Sunday Feb. 28, 2010, during Career Day in conjunction with Engineers Week. As in years past, contests will include an egg drop contest and a bridge building contest.
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The Washington Science Teachers’ Association (WSTA) will hold its annual conference, March 12 – 14, 2010. The conference offers opportunities to explore the new science standards revisions and science instructional materials that support the science standards, and to engage with science professionals through workshops, informal networking opportunities, and vendor exhibits.
At this Tufts University Center for Engineering Education 3-day workshop held Feb. 17 -19, students grades 3-6 will create animations using animation software designed at the CEEO (www.samanimation.com). Students will use materials such as LEGO, clay, and whiteboards to design and create movie sets. Cost: $300. Medford, Mass.
In this Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, Students will work to design, build, and program LEGO robots to participate in the LEGO Winter Olympics. Date: Jan 23, 2010. 9:00-12:00 – Grades 1-3, 1:00-4:00 – Grades 4-6. Location: Tufts University CEEO on the Medford Campus. Cost: $50
In this lesson, students investigate the growing concerns over automobile fuel sources. Using background information from PBS’s NewsHour Report, students engage in an activity of selling and buying an environmentally friendly car. They work together to consider what it means for a car to be “green”; which current vehicles are considered green, and why; and how automobile sellers might use information about environmental impact to sell their cars.
Traditionally, high-school agricultural science classes have had a vocational-education tinge to them that didn’t accurately reflect the high-tech aspects of farming today. Now several schools in nine states are piloting a new, standard national curriculum that’s more challenging. It’s called CASE, or Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education.
The National Governors Association has launched a two-year initiative to tackle the dropout problem in six states: Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Tennessee and West Virginia. Nationwide, only 70 percent of students leave school with a high school diploma.
