Upcoming Events

July 11-15	Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010	Washington, DC
July 11-16	Building Learning Communities	Boston, MA
July 11-16	Engineering Challenge for the 21st Century	New London, CT
July 12-14	Introduction to Flash	Fall River, MA
July 12-15	BIOMAN 2010	Bloomington, IN
July 12-16	Teaching Interactive Multimedia with Adobe CS5	Boston, MA
July 12-16	Working Connections 2010	Frisco, TX
July 12-16	Network Penetration Testing for Teachers	Madison, WI
July 12-16	PCC 2010 Summer Sustainability Institute	Portland, OR
July 13	Nuclear Engineering Technology Open House	Prince Frederick, MD
July 13-15	Cisco Networking Academy CCNA Network Security	Jackson, TN
July 15	Introduction to Wordpress, Part II	Fall River, MA
July 16	(Webinar) Adapting GIS to Fit Multi-Disciplinary Needs	Online
July 17-21	AAPT 2010 Summer Meeting	Portland, OR
July 18-21	International Conference On Precision Agriculture	Denver, CO
July 19-20	Python Programming with Elements of Discrete Mathematics	Boston, MA
July 19-21	Build a Website in Flash	Fall River, MA
July 19-22	International Conference on Critical Thinking	Berkeley, CA
July 19-23	Summer Institute in Optics and Photonics	Waco, TX
July 20	Introduction to InDesign	Fall River, MA
July 21	College and Career Readiness Workshop: Taking the Accuplacer	Boston, MA
July 21	(Webinar) Making Evaluation Integral to your ATE Proposal	Online
July 22	jQuery	Fall River, MA
July 22	Using Microsoft Office in the Classroom	Fall River, MA
July 22-23	Dreamweaver	Fall River, MA
July 23	Working with Microsoft Office 2007	Fall River, MA
July 25-30	Summer 2010 Renewable Energy Train the Trainer Academies: Photovoltaics	Paonia, CO
July 26-28	Actionscripting with Flash	Fall River, MA
July 26-29	Hi-TEC Conference	Orlando, FL
July 26-30	STEM Guitar Workshop	West Lafayette, IN
July 26-30	VMware VCP Certification	Madison, WI
July 27	Introduction to Illustrator	Fall River, MA
July 27-30	Introduction to Relational Database Management Systems	Worcester, MA
July 28-30	The CAD Academy (TCA)	Tustin, CA
July 29	iJava	Boston, MA
July 29	HTML5/CSS3	Fall River, MA
July 29	Quickbooks	Fall River, MA
July 29-30	Photoshop	Fall River, MA
July 29-30	Introduction to Computer Forensics	Fall River, MA

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Featured ATE Resources

Here is a small sample of the valuable resources in ATE Central that focus on Agriculture:

From the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC):

Let's Talk Dirt

http://www.ateec.org/store/catalog/Lets-Talk-Dirt-36.html

This activity is from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC), a national center that "promotes and supports environmental and energy technology education to address the needs of the national and global workforce." The activity is designed to provide a real-world application of the ATEEC Recommended Core Curriculum's math, science, technical, communications, or critical thinking knowledge and skill concepts, which have been identified as necessary preparation for environmental technology occupations. In this activity, the student will take a sample of soil, determine the percentage of the different types of soil particles it contains and indentify the soil, using the Ternary Chart and/or the Color Identification Chart. Access to materials requires quick and free registration with ATEEC.

From AgrowKnowledge:

12 Standards of Sustainable Agriculture

http://agk.expressacademic.org/RCH_Files/292.pdf

Here, users will find a proposal for designating and better defining standards of sustainable agriculture from Rick Parker of AgrowKnowledge, a National Center for Agriscience and Technology Education. Parker states, "Perhaps the first greatest challenge is to define sustainable. Because of its varied use by different groups the word conjures up many meanings based on an individual's politics, experience, and background. For use in a course or a text we must have a clear understanding of what sustainable as applied to agriculture means. Right out of the dictionary sustainable means: 'of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged.' I feel a definition needs to go farther. That is why I developed the 12 Standards of Sustainable Agriculture." Parker believes these 12 standards should be taught in a course on sustainable agriculture because in order to evaluate an operation or make changes in an operation or a system, some guidelines or standards are needed. These set the ideal for comparison and allow progress to be tracked. The paper includes all twelve standards proposed and goes into great detail about each standard and provides a detailed introduction and summary.

Science, Society, and the Food System Course Syllabus

http://agk.expressacademic.org/RCH_Files/130.doc

This syllabus is provided by Dr. Rick Parker, from AgrowKnowledge, a National Center for Agriscience and Technology Education. The course – Science, Society, and the Food System (Agri180) provides students with an introduction to food systems, agricultural production practices and issues, concepts of sustainability, and the science behind many of the questions raised.