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Diana Molavi, Coordinator
Center for Talented Youth, Johns Hopkins University
2701 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218
(410) 516-7008 / (410) 516-0093 fax
Email:  dmolavi@jhu.edu
Website:   www.jhu.edu/gifted/ctysummer

Bell Labs Science Grant Program

The NASA funded
New Jersey Space Grant Consortium (NJSGC)
was established in 1991 with the mission
of advancing aerospace education, research, and technology.
The charter members of the consortium are:
Stevens Institute of Technology,
NJ Institute of Technology,
Princeton University,
Rutgers University,
and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ.
The NJSGC is endeavoring to expand its outreach to
NJ educators and promote the dissemination of information
about NASA educational programs and activities.
On an annual basis the NJSGC offers teacher fellowship
opportunities, undergraduate research grants, workshops,
and various activities for K - 12 students.

Thomas H. Brown Program Coordinator,
NJSGC New Jersey Space Grant Consortium
Stevens Institute of Technology
Castle Point on the Hudson
Hoboken, NJ 07030-5991
Phone: 201-216-8964
Fax: 201-216-8929
NJSGC@stevens-tech.edu

The Leadership Program for Teachers (LPT)
of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
in Princeton, New Jersey,
is pleased to invite applications to the 2002 Summer Institute in Biology.
The Institute, funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
will take place on the campus of The Lawrenceville School
in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, from
July 7th through August 3, 2002.
The Institute is designed for those who teach biology
and life science in grades six through twelve in public
and private schools in the US. The topic is Teaching
in the Genome Age and teachers will explore genomics,
DNA sequencing, gene therapy, ethical decision-making,
and the role of technology in this area of science.
Applicants must be willing to participate in inquiry learning
and engage in the development of their own set of teaching
tools through skills and information acquired in
small-group research. The Institute is designed to expand
the limits of personal scholarship and enhance teaching.
Participants are eligible for a stipend of $1200 upon successful completion
of the institute and the 25-hour outreach commitment.
The deadline for applications is January 9, 2002.
For an application or further information,
please visit the web site
or call 609-452-7007, ext. 121.

HEP Mini-grants Available!
Proposal Deadline: Friday, January 11, 2002
The NY-NJ Harbor Estuary Program is now offering
grants of up to $4000 to support and encourage the efforts
of citizen stewards whose goals are consistent with those
of the Estuary Program. HEP Mini-grants fund projects
that reach out to people to encourage them to participate
actively in the protection and restoration of the Estuary;
promote estuarine education; increase public awareness;
and emphasize that our harbor ecosystem is a living environmental
and social resource.
The HEP Mini-grant Proposal Form and instructions
are available on our website at www.harborestuary.org.
If you have any questions, please contact Laura Bartovics,
HEP Outreach Coordinator,
at 212-637-3816
info@harborestuary.org.

The Rutgers University - Cook College Office of Continuing Professional Education
is looking for highly motivated, activity-oriented educators who have an
interest in the natural environment and a passion for instructional
innovations in environmental education! Business and Science Teachers
are needed for Summer Environmental Kids Camp July 9 - August 3, 2001.
We are organizing our first summer Environmental Kids Camp (daytime only)
to be held Monday through Friday from July 9 - August 3, 2000 for
youth entering 7th, 8th, and 9th grades. We will be offering 5 concurrent
30 to 35 hour weeklong sessions located on our New Brunswick campus
for a maximum of 25 students within each unit. Each unit will have a specialized
focus: watershed management/awareness, earth science/meteorology/air pollution,
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and mapping, entrepreneurship,
and the natural landscape and landscape design. Students may register for one week or
for all four weeklong sessions. Our goal is to create an experienced based
learning atmosphere by combining three or four days on campus blended with
stimulating and memorable field trips. We are currently seeking energetic instructors
for each of our weeklong units. Each instructor will develop an hour-by-hour unit
curricula which will focus on active learning projects, will create a detailed
outline of material needs and estimated expenses, will assist with the organization
of guest speakers (as needed) and field trip logistics, and will instruct part or
all of each session presented from July 9 - August 3. All instructors will work
collaboratively to develop links among our five units to ensure that materials
or content is not being duplicated. Each instructor will receive generous doses of
assistance with their administrative needs from our office support team as requested.
For developing each weeklong unit, we are offering up to $500. You will provide a
detailed unit curricula and a budget description of your session material costs.
For each full week of instruction taught, you will receive $1000 for a total of $4000
for the four weeks. Each instructor will have the assistance of two college age
assistants to support a maximum of 25 students in each unit. Participating instructors
may have an opportunity for profit sharing at season end depending on program
assessment outcomes. If this sounds like a great way to spend your month of July 2001,
know that we are looking to hire immediately. If you are interested or would like
to receive additional information, please send your resume to or contact:

Megan Lipman
Office of Continuing Professional Education
Cook College Rutgers
102 Ryders Lane New Brunswick,
NJ 08901-8519
Ph: 732-932-9271 ext. 643
Fax: 732-932-1187
Email: gis@aesop.rutgers.edu
Web: http://www.crssa.rutgers.edu/profcert

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Physical Sciences

Maple Shade High School
180 Frederick Ave.
Maple Shade, NJ 08052
School Contact Richard Keegan
Vice Principal/Science Supervisor
Ph#: 856-779-2880 Ext. 209
Fax#: 856-779-9657
rkeegan@mapleshade.org

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Chemistry

Maple Shade High School
180 Frederick Ave.
Maple Shade, NJ 08052
School Contact Richard Keegan
Vice Principal/Science Supervisor
Ph#: 856-779-2880 Ext. 209
Fax#: 856-779-9657
rkeegan@mapleshade.org

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New Jersey BISEC Program

Dear Friends:

As you know I am a volunteer of a group called NJ-BISEC. We are a group of volunteers that try to nurture a love of science in all teachers of all disciplines. To that end, BISEC has spent over $200,000 annually paying teachers in New Jersey to participate in week long summer workshops as well as organizing paid summer long internships for teachers in companies such as PSE&G, Unilever, Shering Phough, Merck, PPL, and the list goes on. Many of our teachers participated in a week long workshop in Billingsport School just this summer. You can see pictures of these activities on my website, crystalballscience.com BISEC has come upon hard times. We were being funded by the state for 180,000 per year. Two years ago our founder Gert Clarke, retired. With her went her influence and our state funding. There is a bill on the floor of the assembly to reinstate that funding, but there is a very real concern that our bill won't even make it to the assembly floor to be voted on because there are just a lot of things that need to get on that agenda. With the addition of the needs of the people involved in the September 11th tragedy, or fate seems even worse. I don't like to ask for favors, but this means so much to me I'm going to ask for your help anyway. There is a bill on the floor of the assembly now to reinstate the funding for our good works. Could you please send a letter to Jack Collins asking him to support Bill A-3099? He is working right now on the schedule for votes right after the election. There is a real good chance that BISEC will not make that agenda, and after 24 years of serving the teachers of New Jersey, our organization will have to fold without the state support. Please print and mail the letter below to Jack Collins, I would be very grateful. I'd be even more grateful if you could do it right away, because he's probably writing the agenda as we speak. Thank you in advance for any help you can be in this matter. Together we can change the world for the better ... one student at a time ... every time a teacher seizes the opportunity to get their students to think. Thanks.

Linda Smith
Elementary Science Resource Specialist
Paulsboro Public Schools

Hon. Jack Collins
Speaker
New Jersey General Assembly
63 East Avenue
Woodstown, NJ 08098

Dear Speaker Collins:

You are well aware of the need to provide teachers with high quality standards-based professional development opportunities. You also recognize how essential it is to get students excited about and proficient in science, mathematics and technology, subjects which constitute the linchpin of New Jersey's economy. Fortunately, you also know about the organization mentioned below that addresses those needs. I am writing this letter to ask you to support and post for 2nd reading and final vote Assembly bill A-3099 when the Assembly reconvenes this fall. That bill, introduced by Assemblyman Lance and co-sponsored by Assemblywoman Myers and Assemblyman Blee, has already been voted favorably out of both the Assembly Education and Appropriation Committees. The companion bill S-1871 introduced by Senator Littell and co-sponsored by Senator Palaia, was passed (37-0) by the Senate on February 15, 2001. Due to the generosity of more than 65 of the state's corporations, 12 university research laboratories and other entities, including the State of New Jersey, NJBISEC has trained many thousands of teachers in all 21 counties. A ripple effect of that training occurs as those NJ BISEC participants in turn teach others within their school districts. Passage this fall of A-3099 is of critical importance to the continued improvement of the quality of teachers who impact the lives of New Jersey's children. Your positive action on this matter will underscore and punctuate the extent to which you value the needs of our children and New Jersey's educators. I thank you in advance for your consideration of this urgent request.

Respectfully,