The Media Center is looking for a minimum of ten people that are interested in participating in advanced technology training. This will be a 12-month commitment that will begin January 1, 2002. Must make a commitment to incorporate new techniques into classroom instruction and lesson planning. Those that are selected will be able to choose from a wide range of training modules. This will allow all participants to customize their own training library.
All modules are web-based.
Successful applicants will be able to study when and where they choose and at their own pace. Contact Jim Thomas at the Media Center, 785-1021, extension 104. Under the guidance of teacher Brad George, 7th graders study up on torsion, compression, tension and the like until they are ready to build scale-model bridges out of toothpicks. Next, the technology-engineering students find out how successful their design and execution has been by seeing how much of a load their bridges will bear before they splinter into bits. And they love it.