The Kentucky NEED (National Energy Education Development) Project is offering four second-semester energy education workshops for educators who want to learn more about energy and the resources available through the NEED program. Participants will engage in Kentucky Academic Standards-aligned activities that cover forms and sources of energy, energy transformations and more. The schedule of workshops, with links to register: Feb. [...]
High school journalists are invited to enter the 2017 Mark of Excellence competition. The Western Kentucky University Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists sponsors the competition, which rewards the efforts of high school journalists on school newspapers, magazines, websites and broadcasts. The entry deadline is Feb. 17. An awards ceremony will be held March 24 at WKU in Bowling [...]
The Brig. Gen. Noel Parrish chapter of Tuskegee Airmen Inc. is offering scholarship to college-bound high school seniors. The Lexington-based chapter has presented seven to eight scholarships in each of the past five years to assist students in their first semester of college. The application deadline is March 6. Email Charles Walker or Dan Wooten for more information or an [...]
Registration is open for the Vans Custom Culture Art Competition, in which students in grades 9-12 customize blank Vans shoes around specific themes. Americans for the Arts and Vans are encouraging high school students across the United States to embrace their creativity and inspire a new generation of youth culture. Completed designs go through a voting process that narrows the [...]
The Kentucky Society for Technology in Education (KySTE) is accepting nominations for its outreach awards, which will be presented at its annual conference March 8-10 in Louisville. Here are the awards: Outstanding Teacher: This award recognizes and honors a teacher who has demonstrated outstanding achievement and leadership in implementing technology to improve education. The recipient will be nominated for the [...]
Directpackages.com is offering $1,000 grants to teachers who describe the most innovative and beneficial uses for classroom technology. Teachers must write a 400- to 500-word essay on the impact new classroom technology could have for them and their students and how they would use a grant to address a learning challenge. Three winners will be chosen to receive $1,000 each [...]
Rebecca von Groote, the academic coordinator for the University of Kentucky’s horticulture, plant and soil science degree, offers a presentation on the crop, soil and horticulture science track that is an option for students who express an interest in research-based STEM careers. Von Groote’s presentation discusses the major, highlights some of the faculty’s recent and diverse research efforts and talks [...]
The Kentucky Department of Education is offering the KY Math Academy, an online professional learning program designed to increase mathematical knowledge for teaching in order to positively impact student learning. One-hour sessions will be offered Feb. 2, Feb. 16 and March 2. The program will focus on the eight effective teaching practices from the National Council of Teachers’ of Mathematics’ [...]
Applications are being accepted for the PBS Digital Innovators program, which recognizes preK-12 teachers and administrators who excel at using technology and digital media to support student learning and serve as leaders in educational technology. One Kentucky educator will be chosen as a PBS Digital Innovators and will receive a three day, all-expense paid trip to San Antonio to participate in [...]
Ron Spriggs, a Lexington-based historian and curator of a traveling exhibit on the Tuskegee Airmen, offers speaking engagements for school assemblies in which he will present the oral history of the Tuskegee Airmen during Black History Month and throughout the year. The Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African-American military pilots who fought in World War II and their support personnel, [...]