First Lego League Body Forward Session Registration
Junior First Lego League Information, until June 30 for Smart Move season; Body Forward season registration opens August 2, 2010.
FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) and FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Approved for NASSP National Advisory List of Contests and Activities for 2010-2011
FIRST could receive $200,000 with your help! See how you can help-
FIRST is Just Awesome, Video by FRC Team 862 and guests
USA Science and Engineering Festival Information
FIRST in the News
"It's Your Future" was the theme at the FIRST® Championship, where 20,000FIRST supporters – mentors, students, volunteers, sponsors, and fans – gathered April 15-17 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta to experience the ultimate heart-pounding, high-energy celebration of science and technology. read more.
Sponsoring Our Mission
FIRST is made possible by the generosity of corporations, educational and professional institutions, foundations, and individuals. These include new Strategic Partners: Time Warner Cable and Penneys.
Alliances Corner
FIRST announces a five-year alliance agreement with Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. (UL) ... and alliance partner, MIT Alumni Association, helps recruit new FLL teams. read more.
FIRST Robotics Competition Seniors Win Top Honors at International Science and Engineering Fair
Two was the lucky number for Yale Fan and Kevin Ellis, FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Team 1540 members who won the “Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award.” Next, they head to Harvard and MIT, read more.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Limeades for Learning is Back!
SONIC and DonorsChoose.org are partnering again to help public school
teachers inspire their students to learn. By October of this year, SONIC
will have donated more than $1 million in supplies and learning materials
to public school teachers and their students across the country.
Teachers, register your projects on DonorsChoose.org by Aug. 15 to ensure
your project is reviewed in time to be posted when voting begins on Aug.
30. You can even upload your project now for individual donations before
voting begins. During September, anyone can come to the website and vote
for their favorite teacher's classroom project. Do you need an idea of
what type of project is eligible for funding? Click here to find out more
specifics on how you can be successful.
For everyone else, it's even easier to participate in Limeades for
LearningSM this year. Come to the website in September and vote for the
public school teacher's project you want SONIC to fund. There is no
purchase necessary; all you need is a valid email address to vote. Check
back in every day and vote throughout September.
Last year, SONIC donated more than $600,000 to more than 1,400 classroom
projects across 40 states. More information-
teachers inspire their students to learn. By October of this year, SONIC
will have donated more than $1 million in supplies and learning materials
to public school teachers and their students across the country.
Teachers, register your projects on DonorsChoose.org by Aug. 15 to ensure
your project is reviewed in time to be posted when voting begins on Aug.
30. You can even upload your project now for individual donations before
voting begins. During September, anyone can come to the website and vote
for their favorite teacher's classroom project. Do you need an idea of
what type of project is eligible for funding? Click here to find out more
specifics on how you can be successful.
For everyone else, it's even easier to participate in Limeades for
LearningSM this year. Come to the website in September and vote for the
public school teacher's project you want SONIC to fund. There is no
purchase necessary; all you need is a valid email address to vote. Check
back in every day and vote throughout September.
Last year, SONIC donated more than $600,000 to more than 1,400 classroom
projects across 40 states. More information-
Limeades for Learning is Back!
SONIC and DonorsChoose.org are partnering again to help public school
teachers inspire their students to learn. By October of this year, SONIC
will have donated more than $1 million in supplies and learning materials
to public school teachers and their students across the country.
Teachers, register your projects on DonorsChoose.org by Aug. 15 to ensure
your project is reviewed in time to be posted when voting begins on Aug.
30. You can even upload your project now for individual donations before
voting begins. During September, anyone can come to the website and vote
for their favorite teacher's classroom project. Do you need an idea of
what type of project is eligible for funding? Click here to find out more
specifics on how you can be successful.
For everyone else, it's even easier to participate in Limeades for
LearningSM this year. Come to the website in September and vote for the
public school teacher's project you want SONIC to fund. There is no
purchase necessary; all you need is a valid email address to vote. Check
back in every day and vote throughout September.
Last year, SONIC donated more than $600,000 to more than 1,400 classroom
projects across 40 states.
teachers inspire their students to learn. By October of this year, SONIC
will have donated more than $1 million in supplies and learning materials
to public school teachers and their students across the country.
Teachers, register your projects on DonorsChoose.org by Aug. 15 to ensure
your project is reviewed in time to be posted when voting begins on Aug.
30. You can even upload your project now for individual donations before
voting begins. During September, anyone can come to the website and vote
for their favorite teacher's classroom project. Do you need an idea of
what type of project is eligible for funding? Click here to find out more
specifics on how you can be successful.
For everyone else, it's even easier to participate in Limeades for
LearningSM this year. Come to the website in September and vote for the
public school teacher's project you want SONIC to fund. There is no
purchase necessary; all you need is a valid email address to vote. Check
back in every day and vote throughout September.
Last year, SONIC donated more than $600,000 to more than 1,400 classroom
projects across 40 states.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
K-12 Teachers, Educators, Administrators:
Register now for ASEE's workshop, "Discovering Engineering in the Classroom," and learn fun ways to get students excited about math and science. This energizing, highly informative event will introduce you to innovative, effective engineering education lessons, best practices, and take-away tools. Kentucky teachers who participate will be eligible for continuing professional education credits. Out-of-state teachers will get a certificate to use in seeking credits through their own state authorities.
When: Saturday, June 19, 2010, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Where: Kentucky International Convention Center, 221 South 4th Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40202-2903
Free to all who register by June 4. For details and to register.
When: Saturday, June 19, 2010, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Where: Kentucky International Convention Center, 221 South 4th Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40202-2903
Free to all who register by June 4. For details and to register.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
SAVE THE DATE
Project Lead the Way Counselor Conference, October 26, 2010, Southern Hills Marriott in Tulsa.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Math and Science Teachers
Space Math problems (NASA) Grades 6-12
(Look at the science topics addressed)
Problem 339: Terra Satellite Spies the Great Gulf Oil Catastrophe of 2010 Students use a Terra satellite image of the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico to calculate its area, mass and thickness.
[Grade: 6-8 | Topics: image scales; area of a circle; metric conversions; current events]
Go tolink
Problem 338:
Asteroids and Ice - Students calculate how much ice may be present on the asteroid 24-Themis based on recent discoveries by NASA.
[Grade: 9-12 | Topics: mass=density x volume; volume of a spherical shell]
Go to link.
NASA INSPIRE program for High School students
Applications are being accepted from Monday, May 3 through Wednesday, June 30.
NASA will make selections for the program in September. Selectees and their parents will participate in an online learning community with opportunities to interact with peers, NASA engineers and scientists. The online community also provides appropriate grade level educational activities, discussion boards and chat rooms for participants to gain exposure to careers and opportunities available at NASA.
Students selected for the program will have the option to compete for unique grade-appropriate experiences during the summer of 2011 at NASA facilities and participating universities. INSPIRE is designed to encourage students in ninth through 12th grades to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. The summer experience provides students with a hands-on opportunity to investigate education and careers in those disciplines.
INSPIRE is part of NASA's education strategy to attract and retain students in the STEM disciplines critical to NASA's missions. For information about INSPIRE, visit:
To apply for the program, visit:
(Look at the science topics addressed)
Problem 339: Terra Satellite Spies the Great Gulf Oil Catastrophe of 2010 Students use a Terra satellite image of the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico to calculate its area, mass and thickness.
[Grade: 6-8 | Topics: image scales; area of a circle; metric conversions; current events]
Go to
Problem 338:
Asteroids and Ice - Students calculate how much ice may be present on the asteroid 24-Themis based on recent discoveries by NASA.
[Grade: 9-12 | Topics: mass=density x volume; volume of a spherical shell]
Go to link.
NASA INSPIRE program for High School students
Applications are being accepted from Monday, May 3 through Wednesday, June 30.
NASA will make selections for the program in September. Selectees and their parents will participate in an online learning community with opportunities to interact with peers, NASA engineers and scientists. The online community also provides appropriate grade level educational activities, discussion boards and chat rooms for participants to gain exposure to careers and opportunities available at NASA.
Students selected for the program will have the option to compete for unique grade-appropriate experiences during the summer of 2011 at NASA facilities and participating universities. INSPIRE is designed to encourage students in ninth through 12th grades to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. The summer experience provides students with a hands-on opportunity to investigate education and careers in those disciplines.
INSPIRE is part of NASA's education strategy to attract and retain students in the STEM disciplines critical to NASA's missions. For information about INSPIRE, visit:
To apply for the program, visit:
Teacher Opportunties
National Lab Day
National Lab Day is more than just a day - it's a movement. NLD is bringing hands-on, exciting, and experiment-based learning to kids all over the country.
NLD is the ultimate educational matchmaker. Teachers and educators can post a project on our website to request scientists, volunteers or even financial support (through Donorschoose.org). Volunteers, university students, scientists, engineers, other STEM professionals and, more broadly, members of the community are working together with educators and students to bring discovery-based science experiences to students in grades K-12. When an educator posts a project ( http://www.nationallabday.org/projects/all ), our system will help them get the resources needed to bring that project to fruition. NLD is already underway!
Go to <> for information, ideas, or to register a project.
2010 Science Safety Summit
Sponsored by the Oklahoma Science Teachers Association, the Oklahoma Science Safety Summit is designed to focus on the topic of safety in science classrooms and will bring sharp focus to needs, practices, and responsibilities of teachers and schools. This is designed as a Trainer of Trainers workshop and will provide the tools and knowledge to enable participants to lead the yearly training required in every school district in Oklahoma.
Science Laboratory Safety: A Training of Trainers (Grades K–12)
One-day session, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This session is designed to help teachers and administrators understand the Oklahoma science safety laws and requirements for Oklahoma public schools.
Participants will use a laboratory checklist to analyze safety conditions in their schools and receive materials designed to assess and support laboratory safety in elementary, middle, and high schools.
In this session, you will:
• Analyze sample laboratory and classroom facilities.
• Determine responses to common laboratory accidents.
• Learn how to select and maintain appropriate science safety equipment and materials.
• Engage in activities that lead to an understanding of current safety laws, rules, and regulations.
Analyze events that lead to common accidents and determine how to respond to them.
Presenter for the summit is Jim Collins of the Charles Dana Center at the University of Texas.
Jim’s extensive research in safety practices and procedures in Texas resulted in a recent strengthening of the Texas state laws regulating school safety and safety practice in Texas. His work includes the Texas Safety Standards for Kindergarten–Grade 12 and An Analysis of Laboratory Safety in Texas.
Go to the Dana Center (http://www.utdanacenter.org/sciencetoolkit/safety/) for more information about the science safety toolkit.
Summit At-A-Glance
Location: Friday,July 30, 2010 – Howell Hall (science building) on the campus of the University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond.
Time: 9 am until 4: pm (8:30 Registration and continental breakfast)
Cost:$50 per person. Purchase orders to OSTA are accepted. Space is limited to a maximum of 30 participants. All participants receive a copy of a CD of Safety Kit resources, continental breakfast, lunch, and a 1 year complimentary new membership in OSTA (not good toward OSTA membership renewals). Registration Deadline: July 23, 2010
Online Registration is Open NOW at
If you prefer to pay for Registration by check or Purchase Order you may print and mail in the online form or use the registration form on the Conference page on this website.
National Lab Day is more than just a day - it's a movement. NLD is bringing hands-on, exciting, and experiment-based learning to kids all over the country.
NLD is the ultimate educational matchmaker. Teachers and educators can post a project on our website to request scientists, volunteers or even financial support (through Donorschoose.org). Volunteers, university students, scientists, engineers, other STEM professionals and, more broadly, members of the community are working together with educators and students to bring discovery-based science experiences to students in grades K-12. When an educator posts a project ( http://www.nationallabday.org/projects/all ), our system will help them get the resources needed to bring that project to fruition. NLD is already underway!
Go to <> for information, ideas, or to register a project.
2010 Science Safety Summit
Sponsored by the Oklahoma Science Teachers Association, the Oklahoma Science Safety Summit is designed to focus on the topic of safety in science classrooms and will bring sharp focus to needs, practices, and responsibilities of teachers and schools. This is designed as a Trainer of Trainers workshop and will provide the tools and knowledge to enable participants to lead the yearly training required in every school district in Oklahoma.
Science Laboratory Safety: A Training of Trainers (Grades K–12)
One-day session, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This session is designed to help teachers and administrators understand the Oklahoma science safety laws and requirements for Oklahoma public schools.
Participants will use a laboratory checklist to analyze safety conditions in their schools and receive materials designed to assess and support laboratory safety in elementary, middle, and high schools.
In this session, you will:
• Analyze sample laboratory and classroom facilities.
• Determine responses to common laboratory accidents.
• Learn how to select and maintain appropriate science safety equipment and materials.
• Engage in activities that lead to an understanding of current safety laws, rules, and regulations.
Analyze events that lead to common accidents and determine how to respond to them.
Presenter for the summit is Jim Collins of the Charles Dana Center at the University of Texas.
Jim’s extensive research in safety practices and procedures in Texas resulted in a recent strengthening of the Texas state laws regulating school safety and safety practice in Texas. His work includes the Texas Safety Standards for Kindergarten–Grade 12 and An Analysis of Laboratory Safety in Texas.
Go to the Dana Center (http://www.utdanacenter.org/sciencetoolkit/safety/) for more information about the science safety toolkit.
Summit At-A-Glance
Location: Friday,July 30, 2010 – Howell Hall (science building) on the campus of the University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond.
Time: 9 am until 4: pm (8:30 Registration and continental breakfast)
Cost:$50 per person. Purchase orders to OSTA are accepted. Space is limited to a maximum of 30 participants. All participants receive a copy of a CD of Safety Kit resources, continental breakfast, lunch, and a 1 year complimentary new membership in OSTA (not good toward OSTA membership renewals). Registration Deadline: July 23, 2010
Online Registration is Open NOW at
If you prefer to pay for Registration by check or Purchase Order you may print and mail in the online form or use the registration form on the Conference page on this website.
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