Suggested Reading
The following information is provided by the STEDTRAIN Committee as a courtesy to educators in the Tennessee Valley area. These materials are not a part of the STEDTRAIN Seed Grant process.- Construction tools for girls, PDF, 43.0 kB, View
- Education for Life and Work report brief, PDF, 6.16MB, View
Suggested Links
- The Office of Education of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) provides educational and outreach programming for students, educators, young inventors, and innovators of all ages. It supports the mission of the USPTO by providing relevant intellectual property, innovation, and invention resources to school administrators, teachers, students, and parents and has a robust outreach program that supports many community-based invention and innovation programs.
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- IEEE TryEngineering Resource for Students and Teachers, https://tryengineering.org/ TryEngineering aims to empower educators to foster the next generation of technology innovators. We provide educators and students with resources, lesson plans, and activities that engage and inspire.
- Standardized tests versus creativity, Martin Rowe, December 01, 2014. Archive Copy We've heard it time and time again: the world needs more young people to study engineering. Some people claim that it's the "geek" reputation attached to engineers that drives them away.
- TARC Top 101 Finalists, RocketContest.org, captured 5/9/2014. Archive Copy
- Are You Qualified?, Peggie Koon, ISA Interchange, 5/8/2014.
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http://automation.isa.org/2014/05/are-you-qualified/
- Rocketeering is really taking off!, Jack Aslan, NextGen, 2/26/2014. Archive Copy
- Students Invent a Device to Save the Elderly, The Nano Consultants, Design News, 4/4/2014. Archive Copy
- Additive Manufacturing - An Emergent, "Game Changer" Technology, 4/11/2014.
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- STEDTRAIN at TARC press release sent out for rocket team, 4/11/2014.
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http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/rowe-s-and-columns/4437799/Standardized-tests-versus-creativity
Huntsville's Falcon Rocketeers, a Team American Rocket Competition Team placement. From Bobbi Murphy, We had an awesome day today! We sat in on a briefing at sub committee meeting at the Rayburn Bldg in DC. The briefing was on debris in space. Mo brooks introduced the team individually to the Senate and we will be mentioned in the Congressional Record.
A link to an article in the Denver Post written by an eighth grade Huntsville, AL student who is part of the Rocket Team STEDTRAIN has funded for the Rocket Building and Flying Competition near Washington,DC.
http://nextgen.yourhub.com/article/rocketeering-really-taking-0
Hello! We are the Nano Consultants -- a group of high school engineering students from the Walker Career Center in Indianapolis, Ind., and we're proud to announce our solution to this year's Phoenix Contact, Nanoline automation-solution Competition: RoboDose.