Grants


The WIRED Workforce Innovation II Grant RFP has been posted to the Metro Denver WIRED website: http://www.metrodenver.org/workforce-profiles/WIRED/rfp.html

Workforce Innovation Grant II RFP

The Workforce Innovation Grant II Program seeks to address specific industry needs by funding innovative workforce development, training, entrepreneurship, and other industry-specific education and training partnership projects that directly lead to employment or employee advancement in four targeted high-growth, high-tech industry clusters: aerospace, bioscience, energy, and information technology.

Program Name:
Workforce Innovation Grant II
Posted date: Friday, March 14, 2008
Mandatory pre-proposal conference: Thursday, April 3, 2008, 1 – 3 PM Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce 1445 Market Street, Denver, CO 80202
Mandatory letter of intent due: Monday, April 14, 2008, 4:30 PM
Proposals due: Friday, May 2, 2008, 4:30 PM
Funding priority: Employment training and related activities
Expected number of awards: 4 - 8
Duration of contracts: 12 – 14 months
Estimated total program funding: $1 to $2 Million
Grant award availability: $100,000 – $400,000
Targeted region: Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Jefferson, Larimer and Weld counties

For more information download the Workforce Innovation Grant II Application Guide at
http://www.metrodenver.org/workforce-profiles/WIRED/rfp.html

Open Source Computer Donation Program Aims To Go Nationwide

Ensuring that schools in low-income communities have access to the same technologies as wealthier schools isn't enough for James Burgett, executive director of the Alameda County Computer Resource Center in Northern California. He wants them to have better technology, and he wants them to have it for free. Burgett--along with several partners, contributors, volunteers, and staff--has been for years refurbishing computers, loading them up with open-source software, and deploying them in classrooms (and giving them to individuals) in the San Francisco Bay area. He's recently expanded that effort and is now looking to take it national.
(3/6/2008- T.H.E. Journal - http://www.thejournal.com/articles/22165)

Adobe Kicks Off School Innovation Awards

Adobe this week kicked off its 2008 School Innovation Awards program, a competition in which high school students in accredited private and public schools can submit creative projects to win prizes, including Adobe software, cash, or a Levono laptop.
(2/22/2008- T.H.E. Journal - http://www.thejournal.com/articles/22103)

Microsoft 'DreamSpark' Makes Software Free for Students

Microsoft has announced a software giveaway program targeted to college and high school students. "DreamSpark" makes available, at no charge, a number of development and design programs for download. The program is now available to more than 35 million college students in Belgium, China, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K. and the United States.
(2/19/2008- T.H.E. Journal - http://www.thejournal.com/articles/22070)

Sony Kicks Off High School Video Contest

Sony Creative Software, developer of the Vegas video production suite, has opened up its first Technology in Motion: Vision of the Future video contest for high schoolers. The competition includes $20,000 in prizes per winner for original video creations. Free software and other materials are being provided to participating schools.
(2/12/2008- T.H.E. Journal - http://www.thejournal.com/articles/22025)

AVerMedia AVerVision Lesson Plan Contest

http://www.aver.com/presentation/promotion_lesson_plan.asp Enter to Win one of SIX Prize packages including $1,000 for your Classroom Technology and a NEW AVerVision Document Camera!
SIX Grand Prize Packages: $1,000 to be used to implement classroom technology and a new AVerVision CP300 Document Camera!
Submit a full, written lesson plan relating to one of the following subjects while integrating the use of a document camera into the lesson plan itself:
Mathematics
Science
History / Social Studies
English / Language Arts
Art / Music
Other
Lesson plans must include a document camera as the primary demonstration tool in the lesson itself, and be directly related to one of the above subjects. Integrating document cameras with other technologies may also be described (e.g. interactive whiteboards, automated response systems, computers, etc).
One Grand Prize will be awarded for each of the above subjects: $1,000 to be used for additional classroom technology, and a new AVerVision CP300 document camera Contest Submission Guidelines.
Lesson Plans can be submitted between January 25, 2008 and April 18, 2008. Winners will be notified by May 2, 2008.

Discovery Opens Science Competition to Teachers

by Dave Nagel – T.H.E. Journal

Discovery Education and 3M this month opened up entries for its 2008 Young Scientist Challenge, a science competition for students, and recently followed it up by adding on a Teacher Challenge, which will pit educators against one another for prizes, a trip to Washington, DC, and the title of Discovery Educator Network Science Teacher of the Year.

Last year's competition for students awarded $100,000 in prizes for "young scientists" based on papers they'd written on science fair projects they had produced during the year, including a top prize of $20,000. This year, the first-place prize will be a $50,000 savings bond. Other prizes include cash, plaques, medals, trips, and opportunities to appear on television.
For the first Science Teacher Challenge of the competition (AKA "Young Scientist Challenge: Teacher Edition"), teachers will vie for one of five slots in an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, DC for the finals. The finals will include individual and team challenges in front of a live audience. The winner will be named "Science Teacher of the Year" and will also receive an as-yet-undisclosed prize.

Teacher wishing to participate in the competition must be members of the Discovery Educator Network, a community of some 30,000 educators from around the world. The entry period for both the Young Scientist Challenge and the Teacher Challenge ends June 15. Further rules and information can be found here.

http://www.thejournal.com/articles/22299