NOV 2009

Upcoming Events

in November

(Dates TBD)

Bridgewater State College:

-Tech Fair with Teaching Tech Center

Middlesex Community College:

-Computer Forensics Open House

-Math Across Curriculum

Northern Essex Community College:

-Gizmos and Gadgets @ Lawrence

UMass Amherst:

-Supplemental Peer Instruction for CS 121, 187, 387

UMass Lowell:

-Teacher Workshop (focus on robotics)

Nov 4, 2009

Pioneer Valley STEM Education Showcase and Symposium

Showcase: Come to the poster fair to learn about what schools, colleges, museums, and businesses are doing to improve STEM education students and teachers in the Pioneer Valley. Bring a poster that describes what your institution is doing for STEM education in the region.

Symposium: Hear what a panel of Pioneer Valley community college faculty and administrators have to say about their challenges and successes in STEM education. Stay and learn from representatives of the MA Depts of Education about what is happening on the state level in STEM education.

Kittredge Center

Holyoke Community College

2:30 - 4:30 PM

For more informaion, please contact: kbaker918@aol.com

Registration: http://bit.ly/Showcase
Registration deadline: October 21, 2009

Nov 7 - 8, 2009

Robotics Innovations Competition & Conference (RICC)

The 2009 First Annual RICC will be held on November 7-8, 2009 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the Odeum. The theme of this year’s competition focuses on the development of creative solutions to improve the quality of life. The competition is open to design teams formed by students enrolled at the undergraduate or graduate level. The emphasis will be on innovation, technical approach, and professionalism.

Our goal is to build community between industry and academia allowing both to become familiar with the others needs. A “limited resources” reimbursement of $1000 is potentially available to the first 10 teams to be accepted, as well as “travel grant” reimbursement of up to $500. Please refer to the RICC website for further details. Registration and attendance to the RICC is free of charge.

Nov 14 -

20, 2009

Super Computing Conference: SC09

Portland, OR

SC09 returns to Portland, Oregon for its 21st annual conference. Recognized globally as the premier international conference on High Performance Computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis, SC09 will feature the most interesting and innovative
HPC scientific and technical applications from around the world.

No other conference brings together this many scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, programmers, system administrators, application developers, and program managers.

Mark your calendars and make plans to be part of this amazing conference series. SC09 will feature an exceptional program of technical papers, tutorials, and timely research posters with an impressive lineup of invited speakers and panel participants.

Nov 19, 2009

Northeastern Girls Collaborative (NEGC) Western MA Fall Forum

The Fall Forum will feature a number of successful Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) programs serving K-12 girls in Western Massachusetts, provide information on the goals and objectives of the National Girls Collaborative Project and encourage collaborative efforts among individuals, schools, non-profit organizations, government agencies and corporations.

Engineering and Nanotechnology Ford Hall

Smith College, Northampton, MA

4:00pm. to 6:00pm.

For additional information, please contact Kim Edgar at KimberlyEdgar@aol.com

Nov 30, 2009

Grants Available for High School Teachers' STEM Projects
Up to $1,000 grants are available to support projects that make
students aware of the excitement and opportunity to be found in the
field of engineering--transforming classroom theory into real-world
applications that bring science, technology, engineering and math
concepts to life.

Full-time classroom teachers of grades 6-12 in urban, public high schools serving minority populations are eligible. *Deadline for the 2009-10 school year is November 30, 2009.

See http://www.nacmebacksme.org/nacmebacksme/highschoolprograms.html

Grants available for high school teachers' STEM projects and click on "Innovation Grants."

Sponsored by the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering.

Mar 2010

March 10-

13, 2010

SIGCSE 2010
The 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
March 10-13, 2010, Milwaukee, WI, USA