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ATE is Advanced Technological Education. With an emphasis on two-year colleges, the National Science Foundation's ATE program focuses on the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy.
KidWind Virtual Workshops - Marine & Hydropower 101
Workshop
April 19 Online
Join this hydropower virtual workshop to explore the science of water based power!
During this virtual workshop, educators will learn the foundations of water power including the science and technology of hydropower turbines. This workshop will also introduce activities for the classroom that engage students in dynamic, hands-on energy-based learning.
All teachers who pre-register will receive a $100 kit before the 3 hour virtual training and the workshop will go through how to use these materials in the classroom. This workshop has self guided and in-person components.
Some things to know:
- Workshop cost is $200.
- This workshop and the materials used are geared towards middle school and high school teachers.
- No prior knowledge of hydropower is required.
- You will need a stable internet connection and dedicated space in which to work.
- You will need access to a sink to do some basic hydropower experiments.
- You will be shipped a box of material 4-7 days before the workshop.
- Preservice and retired teachers are welcome!
Use discount code 25CREATEVWKS to reduce the registration cost to $10.
Register by April 5th to receive materials prior to the workshop.
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Experience Northland
Student Event
April 23 East Grand Forks, MN
Brought to you by Northland and the National Center for Autonomous Technologies (NCAT), Experience Northland is open to all students (grades 7-12) and teachers. It offers a large variety of 50-minute hands-on learning activities directly related to Northland programs. Schools/students can choose to attend one session or make it a day-trip and attend sessions throughout the day.
All sessions are 100% cost-free! Register as soon as possible. Last year's events filled up quickly.
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POD Security Matters
Conference
April 24 Murray, KY
Security Matters 2025 will be held at Murray State University's Curris Center on April 24th. The event is hosted by Community Financial Services Bank and Murray State's Cyber Education and Research Center. The registration is now open. The conference will start at 8:00 am and will run until 1:30 pm.
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2025 Northeast Cybersecurity Capabilities and Careers Summit
Summit
April 25 Bethlehem, PA
Five symposia provide the opportunity to learn, experience, and discuss the latest tools, techniques, and technologies for Teaching, Practicing, Demonstrating, and Showcasing Cybersecurity Capabilities.
3CS includes a symposium in each of the five areas below.
- Community College Cyber Summit: The granddaddy and foundation of the 3CS program that has welcomed those interested in experiential cybersecurity education for over a decade! Presentation sessions in classrooms with support for hybrid sessions about practice improvements for cybersecurity education
- Cybersecurity Science and Practice Symposium: Poster and classroom presentation sessions with support for hybrid attendance about evidence-based professional and instructional cybersecurity practices -- the human factors of cybersecurity
- Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Symposium: Cybersecurity skill development workshops on specialized topics not typically taught in higher education courses but required to develop the skills needed to advance in the cybersecurity profession
- Cyber Technology and Careers Symposium: Open spaces supporting an exhibit hall with demonstration sessions and a career fair - combining a job fair and a talent fair
- Cyber Games, Simulations, and Competition Symposium: Individual and team-based interactive challenges and opportunities for hands-on experience with or observation of demonstrations of skills in the Cyber Ready Arcade, including the new Community College Collegiate Defense Competition (3CDC)
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“Fun with Engineering” – Student Recruitment in Engineering Technology, All in One Package Webinar
Webinar
April 25 Online
Join the webinar on “Fun with Engineering” – Student Recruitment in Engineering Technology, All in One Package from CREATE as a part of their Spring 2025 Innovation Webinar Series.
The past four years, CREATE has sponsored the Call for Innovative Ideas, highlighting the outstanding work faculty have done to integrate technology, engage students with industry-relevant tools, and create student-centered, hands-on courses. This year they are excited to announce their line up of Innovation presentations. These webinars are 30 minutes and showcase the amazing work being done by energy educators across the nation.
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Professional Skills Series: Dealing with Difficult People Workshop
Workshop
April 25 Online
High school and community college STEM educators are invited to participate in the National Center for Next Generation Manufacturing's Professional Skills Series.
Workshop #1: Dealing with Difficult People - April 25, 2025 - 11:00am-3:00pm Eastern Time
High School and community college educator participants completing both the “Dealing with Difficult People” and “Emotional Intelligence” workshops will be eligible for a $100 stipend. All participants will receive a Microcredential for each workshop they attend. Each workshop must be registered for separately.
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Workplace Navigation Training Workshops - Utilizing an Interview to determine a “Good Fit”
Workshop
April 25 Online
Go beyond focusing solely on presenting yourself as the optimal candidate and utilize the interview to determine if an internship/job opportunity is a “Good Fit” for you! In this workshop you’ll gain strategies to clarify your career and educational goals and frame questions to obtain accurate information to assess if a workplace will support those goals, while also learning to recognize potential misalignments.
Workshop participants will come away with strategies to:
- Define what a ‘bad fit' or 'toxic work environment’ is
- Outline and clarify your own goals before the interview
- Use questions during an interview to determine whether a workplace is in alignment with your goals and values
- Articulate strategies and practice language to frame questions
- Describe examples of verbal and non-verbal red flags indicating the opportunity may not be a “Good Fit”
- Describe factors that can make it difficult to recognize and weigh the potential impact of red flags during and after an interview
Presenter: Naledi Saul, MPM, Director, UCSF Office of Career and Professional Development
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ATE Project Talks: Industrial Biomanufacturing and Work-based Biotech Education
Webinar
April 25 Online
Welcome to the 2025 InnovATEBIO series of virtual ATE project talks. This series features leaders in biotechnology workforce education from across the US sharing their work on exciting projects funded by the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. The ATE program supports the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy.
Talk 1: Module Development for Bioindustrial Manufacturing Workforce Readiness
BioMADE and member Delgado Community College recently received a National Science Foundation grant to develop pioneering new industry-driven curricula for bioindustrial manufacturing that will build the technical workforce needed to support this growing sector. This webinar will cover the modules that will be developed, the topics they will cover, and opportunities to participate in the project.
Speaker: Louise Petruzzella (BioMADE)
Talk 2: Work-based biotech education
Speakers: Michael Fuller, BABEC
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Spotlight on the Water/Wastewater Certificate at Waubonsee CC
Webinar
April 25 Online
Join presenters for an engaging conversation with educators & industry leaders as they take a behind-the-scenes look at the development of Waubonsee Community College’s new Drinking Water/ Wastewater Technology Certificate, launching in fall 2025.
In this webinar, you will get a glimpse of the process of creating the program—from identifying industry needs and building partnerships, to designing curriculum based on KSAs vetted with workforce demands using the Business & Industry Leadership Team(BILT) model of co-leadership.
Presenters will explore the certificate’s structure, its connection to regional and national wastewater industry standards, and how the program is preparing students for essential roles in water and wastewater management. Whether you're an educator, industry partner, or workforce development professional, this session will offer valuable insight into building responsive and forward-thinking technician education.
Key topics include:
- The collaborative process behind program development
- Curriculum highlights and hands-on learning components
- Industry affiliations and advisory support
- Long-term goals for workforce impact and student success
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2025 STEM Educator Virtual Solar Institute
Workshop
April 26 Online
The goal of the STEM Educator Institutes is to provide STEM Educators with renewable energy lessons, classroom equipment, and a unique hands-on learning experience to take back to their students. The events are funded by the CREATE Energy NSF ATE National Center. Any STEM educator of middle school through college is invited to apply.
Each participant will be mailed a box of equipment, a $200 value at no cost, before the institute begins. You can perform each lesson with the provided equipment and guidance from the online sessions. You will also meet other teachers who you can collaborate and share ideas with.
Virtual Institute Schedule:
- Saturday, April 26, 11:00-1:00 CDT
- Wednesday, April 30, 6:00-7:00 pm CDT
- Saturday, May 3, 11:00-12:30 CDT
- Wednesday, May 7, 6:00-7:00 pm CDT
- Saturday, May 10, 11:00-12:30 CDT
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RSA Conference 2025
Conference
April 28 San Francisco, CA
At RSAC 2025, you're not just attending a conference—you're stepping into a vibrant, thriving community of thinkers, innovators, and achievers. Though everyone comes from different corners of the cybersecurity world, everyone is united by a common mission: to foresee risks, counter threats, and embrace the challenges ahead. Together, everyone shapes the future of security. Together, everyone shines as one.
Join RSAC 2025 to be a part of something bigger. Many Voices. One Community.
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BioMADE 2025 Member Meeting
Meeting
April 29 Minneapolis, MN
Members, join BioMADE for the 2025 Member Meeting: April 29-30 in Minneapolis, MN. Committees will meet May 1. If you’ve attended the Member Meeting before, you know it’s the event of the year for bioindustrial manufacturing. Attendees leave inspired about the state of the industry, informed about the latest developments in products and technology, and energized to work with newfound connections.
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ATE Projects and Centers
Mfg
Advanced Manufacturing Technologies topics include:
- Additive manufacturing
- Automotive manufacturing
- General manufacturing
Ag/Env
Agricultural and Environmental Technologies topics include:
- Agriculture and aquaculture
- Environmental technologies
- Natural resources
- Nuclear power
- Solar energy
- Wind power
Bio/Chem
Bio and Chemical Technologies topics include:
- Biotechnology
- Chemical and process technologies
Eng
Engineering Technologies topics include:
- Electronics and controls
- General engineering
- Marine technologies
- Materials technologies
- Optics
- Space technologies
Gen
General Advanced Technological Education topics include:
- Evaluation
- Learning research
- Recruitment
- Teacher preparation
Info
Information and Security Technologies topics include:
- Geospatial technologies
- Information and communications technologies
- Logistics
- Security, information assurance, and forensics
Nano
Micro and Nanotechnologies topics include:
- MEMS
- Microsystems
- Semiconductors
This 9-page unpublished paper, provided by Northwestern Connecticut Community College (NCCC), discusses the impact of NCCC's grant project that aimed to increase "student interest and capability to enter STEM programs and technical careers by building a pipeline from middle school to high school, on to college and into the workforce." For the project, NCCC partnered with Torrington High School to provide teachers with support and professional development training, externships in industry, and materials and funds needed to implement technical lessons into classroom instruction. The paper goes into detail on the project and its results, describing the impact it had on teachers, students, and curriculum development at Torrington High School. Included are excerpts from interviews with high school teachers that participated in the project.
Classroom materials developed as a part of the project are available to view separately.
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In this lab, from National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, students will study nanoparticles, specifically dilutions of gold and silver. Students will study brine shrimp and explore "...the effects of exposing living organisms to different nanoparticles at various concentrations." There is a twenty-one page teacher's preparatory guide, containing: lists of equipment and materials needed, activity procedure, and student guide with answer key. The student guide is also available as a separate PDF document.
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In this activity, provided by Digital World Biology, students use free, online biotechnology resources to investigate how well different commercial antibodies might work against SARS-CoV-2 variants. Students will first use NextStrain.org to locate and detect the spike proteins of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants. Next, they will "use iCn3D and BLAST to align the sequence of the variant spike protein to a sequence of a spike protein that is bound to a commercial antibody." After identifying mutations in the antibody binding site, students will then compare "chemical bonds that would be formed between the original amino acid and the antibody with the predicted bonds that could be formed by the variant amino acid and predict whether their antibody will be effective against their variant."
Included is a 3-page instructor guide detailing each step of the activity, a 2-page student instructional sheet, activity materials, such as data spreadsheets, and an informational video on using...
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This video from the Internet Scout Research Group is part of a series that highlights student success stories related to advanced technological education (ATE) programs. In this video, Zachary Gorman discusses his experiences with the LASER-TEC program at Indian River State College. Throught the video, Zachary narrates his career path from being in the military to deciding to back to school and discusses how the LASER-TEC program prepared him for his job in photonics. Funding for the program from the National Science Foundation (NSF) is also explored.
The video runs 5:28 minutes in length.
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This 15-page report, provided by the Cybersecurity Education for Advanced Manufacturing Organizations (CAMO) project, summarizes the build process for CAMO training scenarios, the results of implementing scenarios, and the lessons learned throughout. The training scenarios were developed by CAMO to address poor cybersecurity defenses in manufacturing organizations and the lack of security awareness among engineering technicians. The scenarios were designed to make cybersecurity instruction as accessible as possible, and can be used in both face-to-face and remote learning environments. The report provides an overview of the scenarios, discussing the content of each, their development, how to use them, and their impact on students. The scenarios have been used in high schools, two-year colleges, and four-year colleges. The report includes statistics on the efficacy of the each scenario. Also discussed in detail is the virtual industrial control system (ICS) designed for the project,...
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| Active ATE Projects | 296 |
| ATE Resources | 6,773 |
| New Projects/Centers | 60 |
| New Resources | 168 |
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New Issue: Community College Journal
The April/May issue of the American Association of Community Colleges’ (AACC) Community College Journal is now available online and in print through subscription. A featured publication by AACC, this journal provides contemporary information, insights, strategies, and connections for those in academia, industry, government, and workforce development.
The latest issue highlights:
- Supporting the needs and goals of parenting learners
- Strategically planning in a dynamic, evolving landscape
- Using trauma-informed strategies in higher education
- Leveraging artificial intelligence to assist with the transfer process
- Meeting workforce demands amidst the emergence of Web 3.0
AACC's April/May publication of the Community College Journal can be accessed online here, and archived issues can be viewed in AACC’s library.
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Upcoming Event: Building the AI-Ready Campus Webinar
Dive into the future of education with the "Building the AI-Ready Campus" webinar on April 29th, 2025, at 2:00 PM Eastern Time. Hosted by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACN), this session will showcase how Forsyth Technical Community College has harnessed artificial intelligence (AI)-driven tools to improve campus enrollment rates, streamline processes, decrease employee workloads, and address students’ questions and online inquiries using “AI Agents.” Attendees will discover actionable strategies to elevate learner engagement, optimize staff efficiency, and create an overall more personalized, interactive college experience through leveraging the power of artificial intelligence.
Featuring leaders in the worlds of education, technology, and innovation, the webinar aims to redefine the campus experience and support staff in building an engaging, unified learning community that welcomes AI and its many applications.
Register now for the April 29th event on AACN’s website.
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Common App Partners with its First Group of Community Colleges
To serve even more students across the nation, the Common App will be granting membership to a select group of community colleges in Illinois, according to a report from Inside Higher Ed. More than three million students, educators, and academic counselors use the online platform each year to inform, support, and streamline the application process for over 1,000 four-year universities. This is the first time the Common App is partnering with institutions that largely offer two-year or associate-level degrees.
The cohort for the 2024-2025 application cycle includes four Illinois members: Black Hawk College, Carl Sandburg College, Rend Lake College, and Sauk Valley Community College. Three Illinois institutions will likewise join in 2025-2026: Oakton College, Lincoln Land Community College, and Triton College. Data from the National Bureau of Economic Research has shown that education institutions saw an average 12% increase in overall admissions after joining the Common App, a trend that may offer community colleges a similar increase in enrollment rates. According to Insider Higher Ed, there are hopes by educators and administrators that the Common App will continue to expand its...
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Upcoming Deadline: Application for the 2025 NSF ATE Mentor Up Workshop
This year’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Mentor Up workshop will center around grant-writing and proposal submission. To attend the virtual event, participants must apply by April 1, 2025. Application requirements include (1) a concise, one-page pre-proposal document outlining a specific idea for an ATE-related project and (2) evidence of administrative commitment to supporting grant writing, proposal submission, and carrying out of the project itself.
During the Mentor Up Workshop, attendees will explore the role and scope of the NSF ATE program, dive into a focused idea based on their submitted application, and discover the intricacies of grant funding. Presentations, mentorship groups, and structured sessions on proposal planning and writing will provide various opportunities for participants to learn and network. The 2025 NSF ATE Mentor Up Workshop will be held virtually on June 4-6, 2025.
Visit the ATE Mentor Up site for information on eligibility, stipends and support, application guidelines, and more.
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