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TEACHER: Project ASTRO at West Chester University

If you are looking for a wonderful opportunity for building skills and resources in teaching Astronomy (K-12) consider The Project ASTRO workshop at West Chester University on August 14-15.

Project ASTRO, national in scope, combines some of the top recommendations and interests of the 3E Institute community – collaboration, teacher mentoring, and using inquiry-based learning techniques to make Science and Math learning exciting.

And it is FREE. Read the flyer and sign up by July 15.

More information about the national program is available at:

www.astrosociety.org/education/astro/project_astro.html

--Mr. Bujak

STUDENT: Summer Days Math and Science Camp for Girls

Summer Days Math and Science Camp for Girls

Session 1: June 15-18, 2009
Session 2: June 22-25, 2009

residential 1-week sessions
$495 with scholarships

Washington College — students planning to enter 5th - 9th grade in the fall will stay in air-conditioned dormitories and use computing centers, athletic facilities, and the pool. Washington College is a private, selective, liberal arts and sciences college located in downtown Chestertown, Maryland.

--Mr. Bujak

SPACE: International Poetry Journal

The fourth edition of SPACE features current and past Media Literacy/Digital Archiving students from HOPE Charter High School, as well as students from Colorado, Mississippi, Australia and Vietnam. HOPE Charter High students featured in SPACE include Cindi Gil, Tiana Whitaker, Neary Prang, Brittany Turner, Kendall Woods and Johnathan Williams.
Special thanks to SPACE editor, George Mayo for putting it all together. Nice work Mr. Mayo!

See also: May 14, 2009 HOPE, Charter School Poetry Slam

H Songhai
6/11/09

STUDENT: Tools 4 Life

Tools 4 Life
at the
Academy of the New Church (ANC)
Bryn Athyn College campus
Bryn Athyn, PA

residential, $300

July 12-18, 2009

--Mr. Bujak

STUDENT: Women in Engineering (WIE)

University of Maryland , College Park: Women in Engineering (WIE), July 12-18 or July 19-25; rising juniors and seniors. Go to www.wie.umd.edu/precollege or call 301-405-3283

--Mr. Bujak

STUDENT: National Space Club Scholars Program

NASA sponsors the National Space Club Scholars Program (NSCSP), a 6-week summer internship (June 29, 2009 – August 7, 2009) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. It is open to students who have demonstrated high academic success, and have an interest in space science or engineering as a career.

The National Space Club provides a stipend of $1,000 to help defray transportation and meal expenses during this six-week summer program. Potential NSC Scholars:

• must have completed sophomore year in high school in good standing by the end of the current academic year;
• must be 16 years of age by the starting date of the program;
• must be a U.S. citizen;
• must live and maintain permanent residence within commuting distance of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, or the NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA.

See http://www.spaceclub.org/scholars.html and http://university.gsfc.nasa.gov/programs/highschool/nscsp.html

--Mr. Bujak