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         Check it out! Technology Student Association Information

TSA offers camaraderie, co-curricular educational programs and competitions at regional, state and national conferences.

         Funding Professional Development & Course Integration Grants - topic the environment

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Other Great Sites!
         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.

         Ongoing Girls - Set Your Sights on Math, Science and Technology!

Careers, resources, games...

Tours
         Call to schedule Observe Open Heart Surgery!

High School students interested in a career in medicine - this is a wonderful 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

         Ongoing Green Buildings

See green building principles in action with a Green Building Alliance building tour.

         Ongoing Tour one of the most energy-efficient buildings in the country with a visit to the CCI Center in Pit

Students can discover the latest ways to save energy, from advanced lighting to our new Green Roof. Learn about solar panels and other renewables that provide power with adding to global climate change or pollution.

Camps
         July 2010 Environmental Science Camp @ Allegheny College

Two one-week environmental science opportunities - July 11-16 and July 18-23 for 9th and 10th graders.

Live in a residence hall, use scientific equipment, interact with environmental professionals and college professors and do hands-on environmental science/ecology research and activities. Application includes recommendation from a science teacher. Cost is $500 for room and board and supplies.

         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.

         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.

         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.

         June 20-26 2010 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.

         Summer 2010 Camps: Forensics, Robotics and More!!

When school is out, the Science Center is in! (Ages 10-12)

Awesome Astronomy, Invention Challenge, Out and About, Crack the Case, Kennywood Science, River Camp, Medical Mysteries

NEW - - OMNIMAX Science camp!

         Summer 2010 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.

         Summer 2010 Robotics Camp

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)

(Click through to Sarah Heinz House and robot camp flyer 2010.)

         TBD 2010 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.

         2010 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.

         Summer 2010 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.

Volunteering
         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.

Student Internships
         Selective program 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.

Teachers - Continuing Ed
         July 2010 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.

         Check out Pittsburgh Supercomputing Opportunity

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center workshop opportunities

         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.

         July 26-28, 2010 CMU Summer Workshop for Teachers

Open to all high school (and K-8) computer science teachers nationwide.

         Summer & online Robotics

Teacher Training Courses in Robotics

         Year Round Teacher Education and Research Training - Biotech

One-day, one-week and summer opportunities





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