The Technology Teacher articles from April 2008

The Technology Teacher archives from April 2008

Lemelson-MIT Program seeks inventors.(TIDE News)(Jerome H. Lemelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... The Lemelson-MIT Program, an invention awards and advocacy program, is currently recruiting applicants for 2009 InvenTeams, an initiative that provides grants to a new generation of inventors. What could a high school team invent with...

PBS's Design Squad Trash to Treasure contest.(TIDE News)(Public Broadcasting Service)
April 1, 2008... Imagine transforming materials from your recycling bin into the next big thing, and winning a $10,000 cash prize for your innovative design. Design Squad[TM], PBS's popular engineering and design competition show, and Intel have joined forces...

Coalition of National Design Associations proposes new National Academy.(TIDE News)
April 1, 2008... A growing coalition of national organizations focused on the built environment has agreed to create a new National Academy of Environmental Design (NAED) to coordinate research, generate new knowledge, distribute vital information, and make...

TTT author publishes two new books.(TIDE News)(Harry T. Roman's books on technology education)(Book review)
April 1, 2008... TTT's "Classroom Challenge" author, Harry T. Roman, has recently published two new books of interest to the field of technology education. The Car as a Tech Ed Teaching Tool is a teacher's resource filled with suggestions for class exercises,...

Calendar.(Calendar)
April 1, 2008... April 12-16, 2008 TRIZCon 2008 will be held at Kent State University in Kent, OH and hosted by the College of Technology, KSU Regional Development, and the KSU College of Arts and Science. A special event for K-12 teachers is a Free...

Engineering student outcomes for grades 9-12: in the midst of an extended back-to-basics movement with high-stakes testing, being able to improve student achievement in, and attitudes toward, STEM subjects would provide a meaningful service to education and perhaps cause an increase in the diversity of those students who would like to pursue STEM-related careers after high school and college.(Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics )
April 1, 2008... Introduction In the fall of 2004, the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education (NCETE) secured funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in order to infuse engineering design into the schools through technology...

Space: the new frontier! Hotel guests would see the sun rise 15 times a day and use Velcro suits to crawl around their pod rooms by sticking themselves to the walls like Spiderman when they were tired of floating around in zero gravity.(Resources in Technology)
April 1, 2008... The high cost of space transportation is generally perceived as one of the biggest obstacles, if not the biggest, to the growth of space commercialization, tourism, and exploration. In the simplest of terms: it s too expensive! And that's...

Integration of supportive design features and technology: students will locate and use information from the Internet and become familiar with methods of designing a bathroom for the elderly and/or people with disabilities.
April 1, 2008... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Introduction Builders of residential homes are integrating design principles that will be appealing to baby boomers (people who were born between 1946 and 1964). There are approximately 70 to 80 million baby boomers...

Excite kids about engineering: Design Squad[TM] and Engineer Your Life[TM] resources make it easy: Design Squad is a powerful way of introducing students to the engineering process.
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] What do you get when you mix some rubber bands, cardboard, wooden skewers, and blank CDs? Thanks to the Design Squad Educator's Guide, you get a racecar--and teachers across the country are using it to have their...

Model program: Unionville High School, Kennett Square, PA: we ... make the conscious decision to market Tech Ed at every opportunity--both in and out of the school building.
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] About seven years ago, we attended a conference session about marketing and were inspired to start our own marketing program for our technology education program here at Unionville High School in Kennett Square,...

An estimating challenge: in this challenge, students will use a new skill to take a look at how they will spend the money they make in a lifetime, and ... develop a strategy for maximizing their savings.(Classroom Challenge)
April 1, 2008... A vitally important skill to have in the work world is the ability to estimate. All through a career this skill comes in handy, but most often it is used to help develop budgets and ballpark estimates for what something might cost. As adults we...

2008 directory of ITEA Institutional members.(Directory)(Table)
April 1, 2008... For further information, contact the faculty member listed. LEGEND Degrees 1 Bachelor's Degree 2 Master's Degree 3 Fifth-Year Program 4 Sixth-Year Program 5 Advanced Standing Certificate 6 Doctoral Degree 7 Continuing...

2008 directory of ITEA museum members.(International Technology Education Association)(Directory)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... For further information, contact the staff member listed. MASSACHUSETTS Museum of Science National Center for Technological Literacy 1 Science Park Boston, MA 02114 617-589-3102 www.mos.org Lesley O'Garro...

Follow-up: how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll pop?(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] I asked this question of my Engineering Drafting class last year. My students had such a great time making a machine to test the question, I decided to write a lesson plan about it. This past summer Princeton High...