“Welding Metallurgy and Weldability of Commercial Alloys” course covers introduction of concepts and fundamentals, and the best educational practice methods to teach heat flow, welding metallurgy, and the weldability of ferrous and non-ferrous commercial alloys. Laboratory work consists of welding metallurgy investigation on the welded samples and weldability testing for specific applications.

Each year Bio-Link Fellows from across the nation travel to the Clark Kerr Campus (CKC) in Berkeley, CA to learn about the latest practices in biotechnology education.

At the Bio-Link National Summer Fellows Forum, participants will learn new skills and techniques, examine and test exemplary curriculum models and course materials, engage in dialogue about ethical, legal, and social issues in biotechnology and learn how to disseminate this information within their own regions. Fellows are expected to implement new strategies into their own programs, to lead regional staff development activities, and provide prompt response to follow-up surveys.

This intensive 3.5 day short course offered by the Cornell NanoScale Science & Technology Facility, combines lectures and laboratory demonstrations designed to impart a broad understanding of the science and technology required to undertake research in nanoscience. TCN is an ideal way for faculty, graduate students, post docs and staff members to rapidly come up to speed in many of the technologies that users of the CNF need to employ. Members of the high tech business community will also find it an effective way to learn best practices for success in a nanofab environment.  Attendance is open to the general scientific community, but class size is limited. 

High school students will learn digital fabrication tools by exploring 2D laser printers, 3D printers, and laser engraing/cutting through fun projects during this summer workshop program.

After months of independent research, we bring you the issues at the heart of automotive technology- from the connected car to the converging trends of autonomous vehicles and smart mobility. From top-down headline sessions to dedicated panels and s on telematics, autonomous and mobility- we have over 70 sessions to get you up to speed with all you need to know about the technology that is redefining the car as we know it.

The 2015 Student Innovation Expo will take place on Saturday, June 6th, at the XL Center in Hartford from 9AM to 3PM. Student Innovation Expo is the culminating experience for Connecticut high schools engaged in a variety of innovative digital media, entrepreneurship, and science research projects through EDUCATION CONNECTION’s Skills21 program. Celebrating its 13th year, the Innovation Expo’s attendance has grown to more than 1,200 participants including students from nearly 40 schools across the state of Connecticut. The event is free of charge and the public is invited to join us in this celebration of student creativity and craftsmanship.

ISACA (CISM) – The Certified Information Security Manager certification is the primary certification for information security professionals who manage, design, oversee and/or assess an enterprise’s information security. In comparison to other certifications, CISM covers a wide body of knowledge. It is therefore recommended by the sponsoring organization, ISACA, that those sitting for the CISM certification attend a training session.

At STAR (Students, Technology,and Robots) Camp, students work in teams to build, program, engineer, and operate a VEX robot. Throughout the week-long day camp, students will rotate through the advanced manufacturing programs at St. Cloud Technical and Community College (SCTCC) while learning how to weld, create 3D designs for their robots, program, and build their robots. There will be eight students from SCTCC's manufacturing program, along with faculty members, to help mentor and guide the students.One day is spent touring a local manufacturer where they see robotics in action. The final day of the camp is spent in friendly competition with family and friends invited to attend and see what the students have created learned. Open to students entering grades 6-8, with room for 32 students.

QGIS is a powerful free open source GIS software package that runs on Windows, OSX and Linux.  This workshop will introduce the participants to the basics of GIS using QGIS.  At the end of the workshop, attendees will be able to:

• Understand the concepts of open source GIS
• Add data into QGIS
• Analyze data through certain tools including:
• Selections - by attribute or location
• Clipping Data
• Creating finalized maps

No past knowledge of GIS or QGIS is needed.

This 2.5 day hands-on training workshop includes: 

• Manufacturing Education and Career Pathways 
• Integrating Florida Standards - manufacturing programs 
• Manufacturing industry tours  
• Robotic/automation and additive manufacturing activities
• Manufacturing meets STEM in the classroom
• Lunch with manufacturers! 

Learn how to increase the number of women and retain more female (and male) students in your science and technology classrooms. The WomenTech Educators Online Training Program, about 2-3 hours per week for 10 weeks, is given via presentations, handouts and exercises online, available to watch and complete at your convenience. Live question and answer training calls will take place the weeks of July 13 and August 24. Plus you'll receive exclusive access to an online learning community to connect with other training participants and receive supplementary content.

You will take away an easy-to-implement recruitment plan to greatly increase the number of women and girls in your STEM classrooms; a retention plan for your school to increase the completion rate of your female (and male students), starting right away; the knowledge and confidence you need to put your plans into action; and a certificate of completion from IWITTS and the option for a unit of continuing education credit from Fresno Pacific University.

The training is free to ATE grantees with teams of 4-6 participants. Your team will be the most effective if it includes a variety of stakeholders from your school or program who are dedicated to increasing the number of female students in STEM. Teams will communicate as a single voice during the program. While team members may watch modules individually at their convenience, the team joins together weekly to synthesize and apply the information into a group assignment. These assignments build to create full recruitment and retention action plans by the end of the training. 

To help you submit a competitive application and to set your team up for greater success, check out this free, 30-minute webinar (http://www.iwitts.org/nsf-online#nsfteam) featuring live Q&A with the Executive Director of IWITTS, Donna Milgram.

Intent to Apply forms can be found at: http://forms.aweber.com/form/48/572960448.htm

ArcGIS Online® (AGOL) is a collaborative, cloud-based platform that lets users create, share, and access maps, applications (e.g., apps), and spatial data, including basemaps published by Esri. Through the use of AGOL, one can manage, create, store, and access hosted web services and because it is part of one system, ArcGIS Desktop®, Esri’s licensed GIS software, can be extended through its usage. AGOL can be accessed via web browsers on desktop computers, laptops, and mobile devices as well as directly through the ArcGIS Desktop® capabilities. Additionally, by joining an organization one can share maps and apps with others and even create individual groups to host spatial materials. This interactive workshop for beginners introduces AGOL to those new to spatial software and offers an opportunity to experiment with it in order to become familiar with the software. The workshop is introductory in nature and a laptop is required for attendees. Topics covered in this workshop include:

An introduction to AGOL

Searching layers

Adding data

Finding distances

Creating maps

Querying data

Saving and sharing maps and apps

This workshop will be for experienced users of any version of ArcMap. This workshop is not designed to make the participant a Python programmer. It will provide simple lessons in scripting of Python to be used directly with the ArcPY module of Esri ArcMap. In this workshop the participants will learn how to use Python scripts to do geoprocessing tasks both within and outside of ArcMap. No programming is required. This will be a hands on workshop and the participants will learn how to use Python (representative list) to clip, buffer, join (tabular and spatial), merge, create repetitive tasks, and obtain information from files.

Presented By: Vince DiNoto

This workshop will provide educators and researchers in higher education and K-12 environments with an introduction to Pictometry unique imagery and its analytics product POL Pictometry OnLine. A former teacher himself, Andy Mendola, Pictometry Educational Program Manager, will present an introduction to the high resolution digital aerial imagery and analytical tools that are available to educational institutions. Participants will learn what imagery is available, how to search and navigate the imagery, how to measure height, distance and area, and how to incorporate KML files and GIS data, among many other tools and techniques. Educators in numerous areas, such as Emergency Management, Hazard Mitigation, Planning, Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Geosciences, Urban Planning and Development, Landscape Architecture and Ecology, will be delighted by the possibilities available to them and their students.

Presented by: Andy Mendola

An understanding of how ArcMap is required and having worked with ArcGIS online will be useful. In this workshop the participants will utilize an existing Collector Map to take data. The participants will learn how to create a collector map as well as an understanding of map services and feature services. Upon completion of the workshop the Collector maps will be placed online for the use of all participants so to grow collaboration within the group. The participants must have a smart device (Apple or Android) that contains a GPS to take field data. Having the free Collector App installed before the workshop is required.

Presented by: Vince DiNoto

The National GeoTech Center is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky at Jefferson Community and Technical College and is comprised of a number of two-year and four-year institutional partners from around the U.S. making it a truly national distributed center that is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through 2016. The mission of the national center is to develop curricula that assists two-year colleges in their pursuit of creating geospatial technology programs. The GeoTech Center also works with the K-12 population as well as with four-year university partners. The ultimate objective is to develop a seamless articulation pipeline through all levels of education. 

The products (i.e., tools) and services of the GeoTech Center include the following: the Geospatial Technology Competency Model (GTCM), Model Courses and content, the National Map of Geospatial Programs in the U.S., a Community of Practice (a centralized national network for geospatial workers.), the GeoEd Annual Conference, an international list serve for geospatial technologies, a monthly newsletter, Mentoring Groups, Geospatial Workshops, a massive open online course (MOOC) and open ongoing course (OOC), a Student Skills Competition, Awards for Geospatial Educators and Partners, Monthly Webinars, a Map and Data Library, resources for starting a geospatial program, resources for geospatial careers, a Model Program and Content Tool, and a Syllabus Repository for Geospatial Coursework.

In this half-day workshop, each of these products and services will be visited and detailed so that users can have a better understanding and learn to fully leverage the products and services available for all.

An introductory background in ArcMap is required for this workshop. This workshop will explore the concept of Georeferencing, geared toward Sanborn Fire Insurance maps. These maps date into the second half of the 19th century and are a great resource in the study of the history of a community. Once these maps have been Georeferenced it is then important to extract information from them, through a process known as heads up digitization.
 

Presented by: Vince DiNoto

How the employment of the GeoTech Center Geospatial Awareness course will be presented which will include the hands on experience with the course materials. The instructors will discuss how they are utilizing the course at their specific institutions.

Presented by: Ken Yanow and Nicole Ernst

The SMART Maritime Technologies (MarTech) Consortium is a group of approximately 40 industry employers, secondary and post-secondary educators, faculty and career coaches that meet on a monthly basis to support and inform the SMART Center's work. The Consortium is chaired by Brad Mason, Director of Maintenance, Modernization, and Technical Services for ASMEC, LLC a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries.

Highlighted as one of the “big ideas” of the past decade by the journal Science, optogenetics involves the use of light to control neurons, and it has opened up a realm of possibilities for better understanding the brain. How are scientists using this exciting technology? Come and find out.

All educators are invited to meet in discuss geospatial technology issues. This forum will provide an opportunity to explore commonalities including but not limited to: course organization, exercises, contextual examples and case studies. In addition those present will have the opportunities to discuss the changing nature of mapping and geospatial topics. Enrollment, recruitment, retention and institutional usage of geospatial technologies as well as other items of interest to those attending will be discussed.

This session is open to all educators and those interested in education.

High school students will learn digital fabrication tools by exploring 2D laser printers, 3D printers, and laser engraing/cutting through fun projects during this summer workshop program.

€œEmpowering Colleges: Expanding the Geospatial Workforce  The GeoTECH Center:  Is developing a Community of Practice  Has a set of Model Courses  Can provide Mentoring for new or existing  programs  Offers professional development workshops at no cost  Is updating the Geospatial Technology Competency Model (GTCM)  Provides a national geospatial program locator map  Presents Educator Awards  Maintains a geospatial calendar of events

GeoEd '15 registration is now open as well as seeking presenters for the conference and workshops which will occur on June 8th, 9th,10th.  If you would like to present a paper or workshop please complete the form.  Paper/workshops form.  Stipends will be available for two-year college educators. For more information about the conference or the stipend please contact jf-geotech@kctcs.edu

Know of a student interested in robotics? Have they been thinking about joining a FTC or VEX team? If they want to learn more this camp is for them! Design, build, and program a robot in a day. Working in small groups, students will use VEX robotics kits to solve a challenge. Students who complete this course will be solid contributors to any competitive robotics team, whether they be a FTC or VEX team

The Safe Surgery Checklist developed by the World Health Organization is saving lives all over the world. What can checklists do for your evaluation practice?  In this 45-minute webinar, Lori Wingate will provide an overview of the form and function of checklists, highlight evaluation checklists by some of the field’s leaders, and share basic guidelines for developing your own checklists. Goldie MacDonald, evaluation specialist and CDC health scientist, will share her experience with checklist development and use in global health evaluations.

This complimentary event is open to business professionals, entrepreneurs, inventors, students, teachers and 'creative souls'.

Learn more about the FVTC Fab Lab machines such as 3D printing, laser cutting/engraving and other computer controlled machines used in industry as well as the average home. Fab Lab resources are available to the community for a broad range of activities ranging from craft projects, guitar building, 3D printing and early stage prototyping.
 

Join us for a comprehensive workshop on producing sparkling wine. You will taste sparkling wines from around the world, discuss stylistic attributes of different sparkling wines, learn the process of producing sparkling wine, experience cuvee blending, and riddle sparkling wines on Surry’s campus.

Activities and demonstrations include circuit building, soldering, lasers/photonics, 3D printing, RC helicopters, drones and robotics demonstrations from area schools. Families, scout groups, home school classes and community members of all ages are welcome. The free event is part of a STEM outreach initiative to encourage students to learn about and consider pursuing STEM-related fields. Attendees may also pick up information about the CLC mechatronics and engineering programs as well as non-credit summer camps and courses

This free conference is being held in celebration of the 2015 International Year of Light at Indian River State College and will cover the modern applications of light & light-based technologies. Engineers, scientists, and educators will discuss laser technology development, laser use in nuclear fusion, and the capacities of optical fiber in data transmission. National leaders in photonics education will present information on the education and career opportunities in this emerging field.  Tours of the IRSC Photonics Lab and a laser demonstration will follow the speakers.

Presented By: Wing Cheung

The UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) workshop is designed to give attendees an introduction to UAVs, and offer practical advice to educators interested in introducing UAVs in their courses. In this workshop, attendees will hear from educators and professionals who have implemented UAVs, and learn about legal and cost considerations. Participants will also have the hands-on opportunity to fly an UAV and process data from UAVs.