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BCPS Superintendent Dr. Dance Town Meeting at OMHS April 18, 2013 Check out the Video

Amazing Blog Code-Switching

STEAM education Check out this blog

3/14/2013 Happy Pi Day everybody



2/8/2012 President Obama hosted another student science fair at the White House. Here is an interesting article about our President's interest in innovation and technology and the importance of education.

 2/3/2012  [|Google]  -  Yesterday 11:23 AM  - Public  A few years ago, a group of female engineers at Google in Israel decided to tackle the gap they saw between the number of men versus number of women working in CS and engineering. They established the “Mind the Gap!” program, aimed at encouraging girls to pursue math, science and technology education. Their ongoing success story is up on our blog today. [|Official Google Blog: Mind the Gap: Encouraging women to study engineering] Women make up more than half the global population, but hold fewer than a third of the world's engineering jobs. In the U.S., female students comprise fewer than 15 percent of all Advanced Placeme...

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 120%;">12/12/11 marks what would have been benefactor's 84th birthday, we pause and reflect on how grateful we feel to be associated with such a great man. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 120%;">Thank you to the Robert Noyce Memorial Scholarship Fund from all us Noyce Scholars here at Towson University

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">You never know how the smallest of things can have a lifetime effect on a person: //<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">For 12 years I sent Ben, my one of nephews, post cards every time I visited a college starting when he was 15. He never said anything to me about them. He was nice enough at family visits and our two families are very close. Ben is 27and in graduate school in New Mexico in jounalism and now, everytime he goes on a trip, he sends me a post card! ////<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">~ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Dr. Virginia Anderson (excerpt from an email message to our Wiki space). //<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//Thanks for sharing another "Dr. Ginny's Nugget of Wisdom" with us//

The ancient Romans had a better water system than many parts of the world today. Here are some lesson plans for science teachers to use to discuss water supplies.
 * September 3, 2011**
 * Water.org Lesson Plans**

Illuminations now has a channel on YouTube! See how teachers use our free math resources in their classroom every day by following** www.youtube.com/NCTMIlluminations .**
 * August 31, 2011**
 * Back to School**

Summer classes for teachers.
 * July 21, 2011**

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 * April 12, 2011**
 * Science Fair at Pleasant Plains Elementary**
 * Kat & Sherry were judges. The students' work was fantastic.**

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 * In Math News**

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**Mark your calendars**
I have another invitation to judge a science fair at Pleasant Plains Elementary. If anyone is interested call me 410-960-6438. The date is April 12, 2011 in the morning. They feed us breakfast if that is a bribe for anyone. Also, if you need a ride, we can work that out too.

**Dr. Anderson sent me an email with this tidbit. Would anyone be interested in attending?**
Anyway, a really great (Presidential Teacher award winner) TU math ed grad who is now a high school math chair in Balto. Co. will be coming to TU sometime this spring to talk about using wikis in teaching. It should be very informative since it is the "rage" in some schools and is used by some profs.