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From David Letterman to Education Week, NSTA’s student science competitions garnered national attention last week. Three top winners of the Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Awards program--Christopher Godoy, from Tucson, AZ; Renee Steinberg, from Brooklyn, NY; and Alyson Wong, from San Francisco, CA.--were special guests on the “Late Show with David Letterman” Thursday, June 24. The students demonstrated their winning tools and spent nearly 10 minutes talking with Mr. Letterman about their inventions and the Young Inventors program. The Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision Awards Program was featured in a full-page story in the June 23 edition of Education Week. The story highlighted the top winning technologies envisioned by students, including the E. Colocator Gloves, an idea submitted by eighth-grade students from John Burroughs School in St Louis. These special gloves alert meat handlers to harmful bacteria by changing color, preventing tainted meat from getting into the food supply. The winning students were recently in Washington, D.C., to receive their awards, which included $5,000 and $10,000 savings bonds. To read the story, go to http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=41Inventions.h23. (free registration required) Sears sponsors
the Young Inventors program through its Craftsman® tools brand.
For information about the 2005 program, go to http://www.nsta.org/programs/craftsman.
The Toshiba Corporation, the Toshiba America Group Companies, and
the Toshiba America Foundation sponsor ExploraVision. For more information
on the 2005 program, go to http://www.exploravision.org. Both programs
are administered by NSTA. New Free Online Publication from the Eisenhower Consortia & ENC The Eisenhower
Mathematics and Science Consortia and Clearinghouse Network is producing
a series of Lessons Learned reports from its 12 years of work in
mathematics and science reform. The first publication, What Experience
Has Taught Us About Collaboration, is completed and available for
free. The report looks at how collaboration is characterized in
the literature, presents strategies and steps for building effective
collaborative relationships, and explores several "deep structure"
issues that represent barriers to collaborative work. Click here
to download a PDF copy of the report: http://www.mathsciencenetwork.org/collaboration.pdf.
Do you need
funding for a special classroom project next fall? There is money
out there, and summertime is a great time to find out where it is—and
how you can get it. Let NSTA
help—Check out this list of grant resources http://science.nsta.org/nstaexpress/nstaexpress_2004_06_28_extra.htm
to get you the funding you need. Put
NSTA Books on Your Summer Reading List
Save BIG with Earlybird Registrations for Indy, Seattle, and Richmond—NSTA’s Fall Conventions! Sept. 17 may
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discounts on NSTA’s
Indianapolis fall convention (Nov. 4-6). So start thinking about
funding support to attend NOW (and check out NSTA’s
suggestions, the convention agenda, and the persuasive Personal
Scheduler by going to http://www.nsta.org/convtips).
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this Monday’s edition of NSTA Express an interesting, quick
read and a worthwhile update on the latest news and information
from the National Science Teachers Association. Our goal is to save
you time by delivering information each week in short "news
bites," so if you'd like to know more, simply select the headline
quick link. NSTA continues to create resources and improve services
for science educators. If you're not already a member, we invite
you to join the crowd by going to http://www.nsta.org/whyjoin!
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