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 Feb. '09 |
Regional Conference Information for TSA - Technology Student Association
TSA offers camaraderie, co-curricular educational programs and competitions at regional, state and national conferences.
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| TBD 2009 |
PA State (TSA) Technology Student Association Conference in Seven Springs.
TSA offers camaraderie, co-curricular educational programs and competitions at regional, state and national conferences.
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| Funding |
Professional Development & Course Integration Grants - topic the environment
Check these out!
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| Call to Schedule |
Biotechnology Lab
This new Fischer Scientific Biotechnology Lab at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History features advanced technology and programs to develop a middle school student's curiousity about biotechnology. The lab is equipped for experiments in DNA manipulation, electrophoresis, and microbiology.
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| TBD |
Registration for the United Nations Foundation Youth Leadership Summit in New York City this July
Want to get your students involved in a truly global debate on some of the most important issues facing the US and the world today?
Check this out!
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| Other Great Sites!
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| Ongoing |
A Really Good Site for Your Girls!
BRAINCAKE - Girls connect with the people and opportunities that can make their dreams happen. Whether they're looking for advice, ideas about a career, games to play or somewhere new to hang out with their friends, it's all here.
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| Ongoing |
Girls - Set Your Sights on Math, Science and Technology!
Careers, resources, games...
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| Tours
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| Call to schedule |
Observe Open Heart Surgery!
High School students interested in a career in medicine - opportunity at Allegheny General Hospital's Cardiovascular Institute. During surgery watch the procedure from the observation room. After surgery meet the surgeon and ask questions about the procedure and a career in medicine.
For more information contact: Pat Wolf 412.359.6491 or pwolf@wpahs.org
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| Ongoing |
Green Buildings
See green building principles in action with a Green Building Alliance building tour.
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| Ongoing |
NETL Pittsburgh Site Tours
NETL conducts tours of the Morgantown and Pittsburgh research facilities (and the Pittsburgh coal mine) for groups of up to 30. Tours are offered to students, academia, industry, foreign visitors, Congressional staff, and any person or group desiring a tour. Tours can be tailored to the visiting group -- administrative, general, or more technical -- possibly emphasizing a particular fossil fuel technology. Presentations on solving national energy and environmental problems are also available.
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| Camps
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| You decide! |
PTEI Summer Camp CD for Middle Schoolers
The purpose of the middle school camp experience is to expose students to science content, techniques, and social impact by means of an exciting and relevant biomedical revolution. It is hoped that students will: 1) increase their science process skills across the disciplines; 2) enhance their appreciation of science and technology; 3) become more aware of southwestern Pennsylvania?role in cutting-edge biomedical science; 4) become more aware of educational and career opportunities.
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| You decide! |
Complete Robotics Camp on a Disc!
Teachers, parents, mentors – you can run your own educational, fund-generating summer Robocamp using Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy Camp-on-a-Disk CD-Roms. Watch the video overview to learn how...!
The Robotics Academy, an educational outreach of Carnegie Mellon University,
has been operating LEGO® robotics camps (“Robocamps”) for several years.
The formula that we’ve developed has been tested on thousands of children. By
following the suggestions in this guide, you can take advantage of procedures
that have proven useful in real camps. You also have the flexibility to customize
camp operations to suit your own unique learning environment.
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| TBD '09 |
Bayer Climate Fellows Sustainability Camp
This is a two-week residential summer camp in Western Pennsylvania, USA that provides hands-on group learning about environmental sustainability and global climate change through rural and urban river experiences that are fun, academically challenging, and physically engaging.
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| Year Round |
One-day Nanotech Camps
One-day Nanotech Camps for high school students are offered year round by appointment. These camps include an overview of nanotechnology and a tour of the Penn State Nanofabrication Facility.
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| Summer 2009 |
Do you have what it takes to be a CLICK! girl?
Click! is an urban adventure program for middle school girls. It is the first program of its type – part Charlie’s Angels, part Real World. Click! uses specialized tablet computer interfaces, location-aware mobile devices, and digital documentation to engage girls in a six-day camp. After five days of training, Click! girls have an all-day Saturday adventure at Carnegie Science Center that, if successful, will earn them a new status level in the Click! agency.
Click! Level 1: The Click! Level 1 is a biomedical mystery on the North Shore. (girls going into 6th grade)
Click! Level 2: The Click! Level 2 is an environmental mystery on the Three Rivers. (girls going into 7th grade and CLICK! Level 1 graduates)
Click! Level 3: The Click! Level 3 is a technological mystery on the web and beyond. (girls going into 8th grade and CLICK! Level 2 graduates)
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| TBD 2009 |
Computer Mapping Technology Summer Camp
Summer camp at Washington College, MD, for 7th-12th graders inerested in learning about computer mapping technology, also known as geographic information systems (GIS). Scholarships are available.
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| Summer 2009 |
Camps: Forensics, Robotics and More!!
When school is out, the Science Center is in! (Ages 10-12)
NEW - - Awesome Astronomy, Invention Challenge, Out and About, Everything Environmental, Game Time
Returning favorites - - Crack the Case, Explore Pittsburgh, Kennywood Science, River Expolration, Science Scrubs
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| 6 weeks |
National High School Game Academy (NHSGA) is an intensive study of video game design/development
This program includes an exciting blend of hands-on exercises combined with traditional lecture and discussion. Modeled after Carnegie Mellon's graduate program in Entertainment Technology and corporate sponsored by Electronic Arts, the NHSGA is structured to give students a taste of the current state of video game development and guidance towards embarking on their own career in the video game industry.
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| Summer 2009 |
Robotics Camp 2008
A collaboration between Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Academy and the Sarah Heinz House Boys
and Girls Club located at One Heinz Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212. (Grades 6-8)
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| TBD 2009 |
Nanotech Camps
Three-day nanotech camps for high school students in Pennsylvania. These nanotech camps provide an orientation to basic nanofabrication processes and applications, and the opportunity to observe these same processes in the Penn State Nanofabrication Facility.
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| 2009 |
Middle School Summer Camp - Biotech
During this camp you will become part of a medical team dedicated to a difficult task and wonderful new challenge. A local star athlete has a damaged joint and traditional attempts at repair have been unable to restore him to peak performance. Your team will boldly go where no surgeon has gone before! Your goal is to fabricate NEW tissue to replace the athlete’s damaged joint.
What technologies might you use? What experimental strategies can you imagine? What are the ethical considerations raised by this scientific breakthrough?
Hands-on camp for students in grades 6, 7 and 8 involves classroom activities and experiments to help them learn about the field of tissue engineering and its remarkable promise for treating disease and injury. Students work in laboratories of scientists at Pittsburgh’s leading research centers.
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| Summer 2009 |
iD Tech Camps at CMU
Weeklong, day and overnight, hands-on technology camps for ages 7-17 at 40 prestigious universities nationwide in 19 states and Spain, including Carnegie Mellon University. Students use industry-standard products to learn programming & robotics, film & edit digital movies, produce stunning special effects, create 2D & 3D video games and design websites with Flash animation. With one computer per student and an average of six students per instructor, campers are given the attention they need to excel and take home a project at the end of the weeklong course.
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| Do It Yourself!
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| Ongoing |
Track the lilacs, help researchers
Want to track global warming in your own backyard?
A program funded in part by the National Science Foundation
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| Volunteering
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| May - October |
Appalachian Trail Conservancy - Volunteer Trail Crew
Join a volunteer trail crew and spend a week or more helping to build and protect the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, America's premier long-distance footpath. We provide food, transportation, lodging, equipment and training, and the potential for unlimited fun. No previous trail experience is necesssary - just a desire to work hard, live primitively in the backcountry and have a great time among friends.
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| Student Internships
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| Feb. 2 deadline |
Summer Research Internships for Graduating College Students
With the goal to attract youth to the field of tissue engineering, as well as to provide meaningful research opportunities, PTEI (Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative)developed and sponsors an annual undergraduate Summer Internship Program (SIP). This program showcases the many opportunities in biomedical research and industry that are available. Since the program began in 1997, 166 undergraduate students have taken part in the 10-week program that runs from early June to mid-August. The SIP provides summer research internships for undergraduate college students who are currently enrolled in or are graduating seniors of an undergraduate program, pursuing careers in bioengineering, biotechnology, medicine, computer science, chemistry, engineering, the natural sciences, and other related fields
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| April 1deadline |
High School Internship Program - Biotech
The PTEI (Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering initiative) high school summer internship program was developed with the goal to provide junior and senior high school students a first-hand opportunity to experience the excitement and vast employment opportunities careers in science and engineering provide, as well as to learn more about the field of tissue engineering.
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| On going |
College Internship Resource Center
PTC (Pittsburgh Technology Council)
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| Teachers - Continuing Ed
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| July 2009 |
Carnegie Mellon Offers FREE Summer Workshops On Using Computers in High School Science, Math Classes
This isn't necessarily about teaching students how to program computers; it's about getting students to think computationally, so that they can better use computers to understand their world. With support from the National Science Foundation, the new program called ACTIVATE (Advancing Computing and Technology Interest and innoVAtion through Teacher Education) will offer the workshops free of charge, with lodging, meals, travel and parking provided as well. A $200 stipend is provided for each workshop.
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| June 29-July 2 |
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Opportunity
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is currently recruiting teachers for an exciting summer workshop - Computation Exploration. This summer’s 4 day teacher workshop designed and taught by PSC will give teachers the skill set needed to integrate parallel programming into their current computer science curriculum.
Teachers will receive:
- Lunch and parking each day
- Act 48 credits
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| TBD |
High School Science Biology Teacher Professional Development
Prior workshops included basic genetics, the molecular biology of DNA, an introduction to genomics and the Human Genome Project, and bioethics.
Genomic Sciences Institute, West Penn Allegheny Health System
A future workshop is planned on the exciting study of Bioinformatics.
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| July 24-27 '09 |
CMU Summer Workshop for Teachers
Open to all K-8 computer science teachers nationwide.
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| July-August |
Robotics
Teacher Training Courses in Robotics
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| Week of 7/27/09 |
Robotics Educators Conference
Join Robotics Educators from around the world to learn strategies and real-world techniques to teach Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) concepts through robotics.
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| Year Round |
Teacher Education and Research Training - Biotech
One-day, one-week and summer opportunities
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