AIM is pleased to present the annual AIM Faculty Academy Working Connections conference at Iowa Western Community College each year in June. The conference was designed to help IT faculty from community colleges and high schools, as well as IT industry professionals from businesses, stay current with trends and new developments in Information Technology.

We offer attendees the opportunity to select from 2 day (M-T), 3 day (W-F) and 5 day (M-F) sessions. Each session includes hands-on instruction, which allows attendees to develop a thorough understanding of the topic. Hundreds of IT educators and professionals from throughout the region have attended the AIM Faculty Academy and nearly all of the attendees reported the time spent at the conference was a very valuable professional development experience.

This workshop will introduce why and how to use remote sensing and the functionality now available in ArcGIS 10.2 to carry out imagery analysis using free data from Landsat. It is now possible to make use of the information from imagery in your projects rather than just using it as a base map for your GIS data. Learn how to find, access and carry out basic remote sensing analysis and where to find more help in the future.

Security + is an international, vendor-neutral certification that demonstrates competency in:

- Network Security

- Compliance and operational security

- Threats and vulnerabilities

- Application, data and host security

- Access control and identity management

- Cryptography

This course introduces the basic principles of network security. The student will be introduced to computer network vulnerabilities and threats and how to safeguard computer networks from those vulnerabilities and threats. This course will expose the student to network security planning, network security technology, network security organization and the legal and ethical issues associated with network security. This course is designed to prepare the student for the CompTIA Security + certification.

*Note: This training opportunity is for Teachers/Faculty. Verification of teaching status and institution will be requested.

PLEASE NOTE: Although there is a $99 fee for the training, there will be a no-show fee of $500 billed directly to your institution for each registered individual who fails to cancel their registration a minimum of 10 business days prior to the first session of this course.

CSSIA is pleased to offer continuing opportunities for faculty attending CSSIA's Faculty Development Workshops (FDW) to obtain graduate credit. Faculty can earn 3 graduate credits through the University of Illinois - Springfield by enrolling in an online course and doing some additional follow-up work (describing how you would integrate FDW knowledge into your programs). Tuition for this option is about $1200, and you would be responsible for paying your own tuition. Your institution also may have a tuition reimbursement program that would support this effort. The University of Illinois - Springfield has been offering graduate credit to community college faculty for events like this for 8 years with great success. For more information, go tohttps://edocs.uis.edu/tmims1/www/cssia/

Participants are introduced to manufacturing and engineering, using computer integrated technology such as CAD, CAM, and CNC programming during this day camp. They also work with product development, plastic technology, electronics, and 3D printing. They design components, create prototypes, and manufacture products. Open to students in grades 9-11.

This hands-on training workshop will cover:

• LEGO NXT microprocessor
• Functional robots building instructions
• Programming with the NXT-G software
• Programming with NXT sensors and logic

Youth have a chance to learn about technology and advanced engineering in a fun environment. Students will design, build, and program LEGO® Mindstorm® robotics to meet specific challenges. They will also have the opportunity for a tour in advanced manufacturing and see how technologies similar to the LEGO® Mindstorm® robots are used to manufacture and engineer products. Their experience will also help develop their skills and confidence in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). Open to grades 5-8.

The Multi-Agency Craft Conference (MACC) provides a forum for open exchange and discussion about boats and craft between government agencies and the maritime community.

The primary focus is the dialog between the Department of Defense and other government agencies on common issues unique to boats and craft in their service. The types of craft discussed range from Army & Navy service craft to Navy and Coast Guard patrol boats to Naval Special Warfare and Marine Corps combatant craft. Craft types include RIB's, patrol and insertion craft, landing craft, utility craft and special purpose craft.

The conference serves as a way to capitalize on the joint nature of today's military environment. No service can afford to re-learn lessons that another service has already solved, whether it pertains to operations and tactics, an equipment solution, maintenance practices, or evaluating and implementing new technology. Each organization has a valuable corporate background that can greatly assist other activities. The conference leverages larger returns from the combined efforts of the relatively small boat communities in each service. Within each service, boats and craft remain low on the funding priority list and the conference helps prevent different agencies from expending funds solving a common problem.

Industry participants are a vital part of MACC. Industry participants are not treated simply as exhibitors but rather as attendees, and their participation in the discussions is encouraged.

This course is designed to introduce teachers to the science of viticulture and current practices for establishing a commercial vineyard. Topics covered will include site selection, site preparation, varietal selection, equipment, first season establishment, vine growth development and training, trellis systems, weed control, and vine disease control.
Participants will receive a comprehensive binder of the course content – “An Introduction to Viticulture”, contact information and resources for additional Viticulture services. Teachers will be prepared to integrate a viticulture component within their agriculture, horticulture or science curriculum.

Lunch will be provided.

The Society for Ocean Sciences is offering a learning-expedition to San Salvador, Bahamas co-led by shark expert Dr. John Morrissey. This trip is a unique opportunity to work with John Morrissey, noted shark biologist and lead author of Introduction to the Biology of Marine Life. Participants will:

• Snorkel everyday in crystal-clear water
• Learn more about the biology of sharks and other reef fish, corals, sea birds, and more
• Experience the amazing biodiversity of the Bahamas
• Walk along sandy beaches discovered by Columbus
• Explore a tidal cave and learn about the geology of San Salvador

The ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition is the only conference dedicated to all disciplines of engineering education. It is committed to fostering the exchange of ideas, enhancing teaching methods and curriculum, and providing prime networking opportunities for engineering and technology education stakeholders such as deans, faculty members and industry and government representatives.

The ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition hosts over 400 technical sessions, with peer-reviewed papers spanning all disciplines of engineering education. Attendees include deans, faculty and researchers, students, retirees, industry representatives, K-12 teachers and more. Distinguished lectures are held on Wednesday, and there are two Main Plenaries, one that features the Conference Best Papers. There are also a variety of division award receptions and banquets.

Highlights include the "Greet the Stars" orientation for new ASEE members and first-time conference attendees, the ASEE Division Mixer, and the "Focus on Exhibits" Welcome Reception, Brunch, Lemonade Social and Closing Lunch.

Developing Pathways for Teachers and Students

The Western Academy Support and Training Center is excited to announce the dates for the Regional Academy Conference. 3 Day Pre-conference: June 16 - 18 Paths includes Cisco Instructor Training, and several sessions from our partners. These sessions are 3 full days each. 2 Day Academy Conference: June 19 - 20 Paths includes Getting to Know the Cisco Academy for K - 12, Cyber Competitions, Advanced Technologies, Distance learning options, Jobs, and more. These are short 45 - 90 min sessions. Or attend both the 3 Day Intensive, and the 2 day Academy Conference!

Participants work in teams to build robots from the Gears Educational Systems Robot kits during this day camp. They use a variety of tools and equipment to assemble the robots. Campers also have the chance to learn about related career opportunities through guest speakers from advanced manufacturing. Open to ages 14-16.

Youth have a chance to learn about technology and advanced engineering in a fun environment. Students will design, build, and program LEGO® Mindstorm® robotics to meet specific challenges. They will also have the opportunity for a tour in advanced manufacturing and see how technologies similar to the LEGO® Mindstorm® robots are used to manufacture and engineer products. Their experience will also help develop their skills and confidence in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). Open to grades 5-8.

Students have the chance to develop their skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and learn about advanced manufacturing. Activities include working with design, 3D printing, and robotics. Open to grade 8.

We invite state and local secondary and postsecondary educators, administrators and leaders, as well as workforce and economic development partners to join us at the premier Career Technical Education (CTE) professional development event of the year!

The Achieving Excellence Institute includes engaging hands-on workshops and interactive breakout sessions offering new perspectives and techniques on cultivating high-quality CTE in your school, district, and state. Hear from our Excellence in Action award winners who were selected for exemplary performance in the implementation of a Career Cluster-related program of study. And get to see and experience excellence in action by touring industry or educational programs around the Phoenix metro area. Here is a sampling of the session topics:

• Best practices/models of exemplary Career Cluster programs of study design and implementation
• Integration of the Common Core State Standards and CTE
• Career guidance/advisement
• Perkins reauthorization
• Leveraging data to inform instruction, program evaluation and/or program development
• Effective strategies for building and sustaining business-education partnerships
• Communications and advocacy strategies in support of high quality CTE
• Lessons learned from state-level policy, practice and programs

Goal: The goal of the hands-on workshop is to equip faculty with tools to introduce mouse and/or human stem cell technologies into the classroom and laboratory. Participants should already have a cell culture facility and cell culture curriculum at their institution. Participants will learn stem cell techniques including:

• Aseptic techniques
• Routine maintenance and culturing of stem cells
• Light and epifluorescence microscopy
• PCR-based gene expression profiling for germ layer analysis
• Methods for directed differentiation from pluripotent cultures
• Emerging technologies including genomic editing in stem cells

Reducing Costs to Make Stem Cell Courses Practical: The cost of specialized media and the purchase of specific growth factors and reagents is a major barrier to introducing hands-on stem cell instruction. To address this issue, participants will learn how to make expensive items in their own lab. Participants will have the opportunity to create plasmid expression constructs for key signaling factors, including FGF and LIF, which are often cost-prohibitive components in specialized Stem Cell media. Techniques for factor expression and purification will be covered.

Instructional Materials: Participants will receive a comprehensive Stem Cell Manual with industry-supported protocols and prepared lectures. Participants will also have the opportunity to interact with industry and academic experts who are at the forefront of discovery and innovation in this very rapidly evolving field.

Logistics: Lodging at the Madison Crowne Plaza Hotel for Sunday-Thursday nights and local shuttle service will be provided at no cost to participants. Breakfasts and lunches are also included. Participants who are not local to Wisconsin will receive a $500 stipend that can be used for airfare, dinners, and other travel expenses. Local participants will receive a $200 stipend that can be used for expenses. Participants are responsible for making their own travel arrangements. Please plan to stay until 1:00 on Friday, if possible.

RSVP Required: A limited number of spaces are available on a first-come, first-served basis to faculty at institutions that have the facilities to work with stem cells. Feel free to contact Dr. Tom Tubon directly with any questions that may arise regarding this opportunity (tubon@madisoncollege.edu, 608 246-6875).

This hands-on training course builds your skills in the VMware® Horizon ViewTM suite of products: VMware Horizon View Manager, View Composer, and VMware ThinApp®. This course is based on the VMware Horizon View 5.2 and ThinApp 4.7 releases.
Before attending this course, students must be able to perform the following tasks:

• Create a template in VMware vCenter ServerTM and deploy a virtual machine from the template.
• Modify a template customization file.
• Open a virtual machine console in vCenter
• Server and access the guest operating system.
• Configure Active Directory services.

*Note: This training opportunity is for Teachers/Faculty. Verification of teaching status and institution will be requested.

PLEASE NOTE: Although there is a $99 fee for this training, there will be a no-show fee of $500 billed directly to your institution for each registered individual who fails to cancel their registration a minimum of 10 business days prior to the first session of this course.

CSSIA is pleased to offer continuing opportunities for faculty attending CSSIA's Faculty Development Workshops (FDW) to obtain graduate credit. Faculty can earn 3 graduate credits through the University of Illinois - Springfield by enrolling in an online course and doing some additional follow-up work (describing how you would integrate FDW knowledge into your programs). Tuition for this option is about $1200, and you would be responsible for paying your own tuition. Your institution also may have a tuition reimbursement program that would support this effort. The University of Illinois - Springfield has been offering graduate credit to community college faculty for events like this for 8 years with great success. For more information, go tohttps://edocs.uis.edu/tmims1/www/cssia/

This Nanotechnology Institute is a 4-day summer camp for high school students, which does not require any previous knowledge of the field and is thus open to students from all backgrounds. The Institute will be a hands‐on, application based experience that will give attendees a broad overview of nanoscience/nanotechnology and the multitude of career opportunities within the field.

Through the hands-on activities students will be introduced to the unique properties of materials at the nanoscale and learn about the many nanotechnology applications that are already impacting our world today. Additionally, students will be exposed to a wide variety of experiences, such as lab‐tours, discussion groups on critical issues like the societal and ethical implications of nanoscience/nanotechnology, as well as an open‐house at the conclusion of the camp where students will present projects to families and friends. The Nano-Institute summer camp is jointly offered by educators and students from Northwest Vista College as well as educators provided by the NSF sponsored Nanotechnology and Career Knowledge (NACK) Network at Penn State University.

Participants are introduced to manufacturing and engineering, using computer integrated technology such as CAD, CAM, and CNC programming during this day camp. They also work with product development, plastic technology, electronics, and 3D printing. They design components, create prototypes, and manufacture products. Open to students in grades 9-11.

The final Agenda will be emailed upon completion. Known sessions are:

• Obtain access to Federal Highway Administration approved Work Zone Health & Safety Training Curriculum/Software
• DECON Activity
• Incident Command Activity
• Health & Safety Plan Activity
• Learn how to use Simulation Software to build your own scenarios
• Approved CCCHST Refresher & Updates
• Approved CCCHST Refresher & Updates
• Classroom & Hands-on Presentations

Are you interested in robotics? Have you been thinking about joining an FTC or VEX team? If you want to learn more, this camp’s for you. Design, build and program a robot in a day! Working in small groups, students will use the Tetrix/Mindstorms kits and the RobotC programming language to solve a challenge. Students who complete this course will be solid contributors to any competitive robotics teams whether they be VEX or FTC teams.

Background:

With a vision for the future, Texas State Technical College (TSTC) Waco developed the nation's first Laser Electro-Optics Technology (LET) program in 1969. Since that time, TSTC has continued to successfully train laser optics technicians for rewarding careers in the photonics industry and those industries enabled by photonics.

In an effort to increase awareness of this growing field, TSTC Waco is partnering with the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC) to offer a Summer Institute in optics and photonics and its associated photonics-enabled applications. TSTC Waco currently serves as an OP-TEC college partner specializing in photonics and nanotechnology. OP-TEC is a National Science Foundation (NSF) National Center of Excellence headquartered in Waco.

TSTC’s Mission:

• Increase the number of students in the Laser Electro-Optics and Nanotechnology programs at TSTC Waco.
• Develop 4+2+2 career pathways for high school students in photonics-enabled technology education programs.
• Increase the number of graduates in these programs and employ them in a photonics career field.

OP-TEC’s Mission:

• Enhance optics and photonics education nationally.
• Increase the number of photonics-enabled associate degree programs nationally.
• Work with high schools and community and technical college faculty to increase the number of students entering the photonics-enabled programs.
• Create high school-to-community college “pipelines” of highly qualified and strongly motivated students.
• Increase the numbers of graduates from these programs in an effort to meet the urgent need for optics and photonics technicians.

Participant Eligibility:

The Institute is open to teachers, counselors and students (grades 9-12). Students are selected based on an application. Teachers and counselors must submit an application containing information on their current job position, experience and interest in photonics and photonics-enabled technology fields. To view complete application details and instructions or to submit an application online, please click here.

Teacher & Counselor Credits:

Teachers and counselors completing the Institute will be eligible to receive continuing education credits.

Curriculum:
The Summer Institute’s curriculum will provide participants with classroom lecture and valuable hands-on training in the photonics skills required in the photonics industry. The curriculum will also cover basic laser and optics principles and their associated applications, career opportunities and educational program opportunities.

Purpose:
The purpose for the Summer Institute is to provide students, teachers and counselors the opportunity to learn more about:

• the skills required to be successful in photonics-enabled careers;
• the career choices and applications of the photonics industry; and,
• the educational opportunities available through TSTC’s LET and Nanotechnology programs.

In addition, the Institute provides the unique opportunity for students, teachers and counselors to collaborate and interact in classroom and laboratory environments.

This is the first institute of this series. Lunch will be provided.

This event is put on by Techonomy. The talks focuses on the intersection between synthetic biology, participatory biology, and business.

Technology and exponential increases in processing power are driving a rapid acceleration in the progress of bio-discovery and life sciences. Health and medicine, fuel and energy, agriculture and manufacturing all are being impacted by the advances being made by bio-innovators and entrepreneurs who understand the vast untapped potential of biological driven progress.

Come join Steward Brand of the Long Now Foundation, Drew Endy of Stanford, Jim Flatt of Synthetic Bio, Andrew Hessel of Autodesk, Ellen Jorgensen of Genspace, Eri Gentry of the Institute for the Future, Floyd Romesberg of Scripps, Beth Seidenberg of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson and others for a half day conversation about technology’s impact on the rapidly accelerating, world changing progress in bio and life sciences.

This summer's challenge: Keeping the "T" and "E" in sTEm.

The workshop will comprise two interactive lecture/discussion sessions—one covering writing for non-scientists, and the other on tools and techniques for delivering informative, compelling professional and lay-level presentations.

The workshop will be divided into two sessions, separated by a lunch/discussion session for informal interaction.

The workshop content is based on Meredith's book Explaining Research (Oxford 2010); on his extensive experience as a research communicator; and on the extensive resources on his web site

Working Connections IT Faculty Development Institute offers cutting-edge, cost-effect professional development opportunities to current high school and community college faculty that is often only available through expensive commercial training. Working Connections makes the newest technologies and industry trends available to attendees, as well as encourages the kind of networking and collaboration among educational and business leaders that can strengthen any IT educational program.

This five-day training workshop offers several tracks that cover a range of the most in-demand topics in IT. The goal of Working Connections is to provide attendees with the expertise needed to teach their respective track in a subsequent semester, bringing the most current information to their classrooms either as a stand-alone course or as supplemental information to an existing course.

The National Science Foundation STEM Guitar Project provides innovative professional development to high school and community college faculty.

Faculty will take part in an intense five day guitar design/build project. Each faculty member will build his/her own custom electric guitar and will engage in student centered learning activities that relate the guitar design to specific math, science and engineering topics.

Participants will leave this weeklong experience with their custom-made guitars, curriculum modules with short term assessments that can be immediately integrated into the faculty teams school curriculum, and much more.

Apply to participate in the 5-day electric guitar design & build learning new hands-on applications for STEM education. Complete application for consideration to receive fellowship to attend Institute in your region.

Students have the chance to develop their skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and learn about advanced manufacturing. Activities include working with design, 3D printing, and robotics. Open to grade 8.

Students will have the opportunity to design and build a guitar.

The AACC John E. Roueche Future Leaders Institute, or Roueche-FLI, is an innovative five-day leadership seminar designed for mid-level community college administrators who are ready to move into a higher level of leadership. These individuals are currently in a position that is responsible for multiple employees, including faculty, administrators and/or staff and probably have titles such as Vice President, Dean, Associate Dean, or Director.

The faculty for the institute is drawn from the community college leadership field and are highly skilled presidents, chancellors, and groundbreaking leaders. Institute faculty leverage their community college leadership expertise and field-based practical skills to create new knowledge and enduring concepts that shape the practice of community college leadership.

The AACC John E. Roueche Future Leaders Institute is designed for mid-level community college administrators. These individuals typically have the title of Dean, Associate Dean or Director and are responsible for multiple employees on their campus.

Topics Addressed at the AACC Roueche FLI are:

• Advocating the Community College Mission
• Visioning with A Global Perspective
• Building Your Leadership Strengths
• Using Data, the Voluntary Framework and the Completion Agenda to Ensure Student Success
• Becoming an Entrepreneurial Leader
• Achieving Equity and Valuing Diversity
• Understanding Legal Issues
• Applying the Principles of Effective Leadership
• Moving Up the Career Ladder