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Cal State Fullerton President Mildred García addresses the audience of future teachers, thanking them for choosing the teaching profession, and challenging them to make a difference in students' lives. Photo by Matt Gush
Ms. Edna Cadogan delivers the External Examiner's Report at the Graduation Ceremony of the Burrowes School of Art. She is emphasizing the need for students to draw and sketch more to improve the quality of their output.
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June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
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Kennedy High School
A majority of the adults could not make heads or tails of the advanced technology featured at the brand new Richmond Fab Lab at Kennedy High, which had its grand opening on Tuesday.
Thankfully, local schoolchildren were on hand to explain the modern equipment that make traditional woodshop classrooms look like, well, child’s play.
Community members, leaders, educators and brilliant young students from the West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) marveled Tuesday at the size and scope of the Richmond Fab Lab, the largest digital fabrication lab on a K-12 school campus in the U.S.
The brand new innovative learning center, which took two years to build and is fully funded by Chevron in partnership with the school district and the Fab Foundation, will allow district students as well as community members to innovate, design and produce pretty much anything using advanced technologies such as 3D printers, laser and vinyl cutters, a mini-mill and more.
Richmond Mayor Tom Butt said the technologies are a far cry from his woodshop class from 50 years ago.
“We had a hammer, a saw and a paint brush,” Butt quipped. “Clearly we have come a long way.”
At the grand opening, students from elementary through high school demonstrated how their ideas can transform into physical reality inside the Fab Lab. For example, they designed and built spring-gear toy race cars from scratch before running them on a track. They also assembled a simple circuit board using a Vinyl cutter as well as cardboard models of a dinosaur in multiple sizes.
The students say they have heaps of fun during the design and creation process, while educators gushed at how much kids are learning about important principles of science, math, engineering and technology.
“It seems like you are doing something cool, but you are sneaking in [education],” said John Iwawaki, the school district’s science coach.
For example, Iwawaki said, an Oakland Raiders key chain that was designed in the new Fab Lab taught students about design, temperature, density and other important lessons. That the lab provides a fun avenue for learning “not only keeps kids in schools, it builds careers for them,” Mayor Butt added.
Richmond High senior Humberto Melendez said the technology will give him a leg up during his pursuit of a career in mechanical engineering, adding funding to create such a center is not easy to come by.
With the Fab Lab in mind, district educators are drawing up lesson plans for every grade level in the district, hoping to inspire the next generation of scientists, mathematicians and engineers starting from a young age. A mobile Fab Lab traveling in a trailer truck will bring the technology to local school sites and community centers. District students are teaming with the Richmond Art Center to design the logo that will wrap around the truck.
Local innovators, makers and other groups from the community will also have access to the Kennedy High facility, the district said.
Chevron funded the Richmond Fab Lab as part of its mission to increase opportunities in STEM education (science, math, engineering and technology) at U.S. schools. Since 2010, the company has invested $140 million in education partnerships and programs across the nation, many of which are aimed at inspiring interest in STEM subjects in order to prepare students for the jobs of the future.
Tom Torlakson, the state’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, called the Fab Lab “special, unique and wonderful” and praised Chevron for being a “solid rock of support” for ongoing investments in education. Recent investments include the $35 million Richmond Promise program to offer local students college scholarships and ultimately create a college-going atmosphere in the city, as well as the Chevron Fuel Your School program, which forwards a portion of revenue at gas pumps during the month of October toward the purchase of school supplies and other items requested by local teachers.
“We rely on a STEM-educated workforce,” said Alan Davis, operation manager of the Chevron Richmond Refinery. “We believe a facility like this will help students learn skills to solve real world problems. This is also part of our commitment to this community, which we’ve been a member of for 113 years.”
Woodcut from The Popular Educator 1868.
A complete illustrated Encyclopaedia for Elementary, Advanced and Technical Education.
Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London. Six volumes in three books, half leather and gilt binding with marbled covers and marbled endplates. Total 2500 pages 26cm x 19.5cm .
Keynote Speaker, Christopher Dede, Timothy E. Wirth, Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. Professor Dede discussed how virtual world immersive education benefits students.
A steady stream of more than 500 applicants flowed through the Community Choice Convention Center, from 8 to noon Saturday morning for the the annual Educator Career Fair. Interviews for high demand positions took place throughout the event, and more than 100 educators will be hired for the 2017-18 school year.
Pierre Tenor, a Peer HIV/AIDS Educator, works with many clients who have forgotten to get their medications or are fearful of showing up at the hospital. He gives out condoms and antivirals to his clients.
Photo Credit: Karen Kasmauski/MCSP and Jhpiego
The Iredell County Historical Society meets on the fourth Monday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Iredell County Public Library except for months when they are out in the community of Iredell holding their “Quarterly History Road Show” series. They will resume their normal schedule starting in September 2021.
Citizens of Iredell County have long shown an interest in researching and preserving their county’s history. Rev. Elijah Frink Rockwell, D.D., was perhaps the first local historian to write and publish historical articles on Iredell County’s history. Rockwell was an educator and Presbyterian minister who graduated from Yale in 1834. He was ordained the pastor of the Fourth Creek Church in Statesville in 1840. In 1850 he was named Chair of Natural Sciences at Davidson College where he taught Chemistry and Geology. He was later president of Concord Female College (now Mitchell) and head of the Statesville Male Academy.
In 1847 Rockwell led an archeological dig at Fort Dobbs for a well that was supposed to have held one of the Fort’s original cannons. They failed to find the cannon and believed they had dug in the wrong spot. He published many articles about Iredell history in The Landmark until his death in 1888.
On Aug. 2, 1869 The Statesville American newspaper published his article, “A Question for the Curious” in which he wrote about local history noting that “In the days of Fort Dobbs, three miles north of Statesville, 1755-63, there was a smaller fort, about ten miles further towards Salisbury near the house of Alexander Reed, (on the old map of 4th Cr. Con) about where now is the residence of Mr. Mays: and not far from a church called New Union.”
There have been many types of Historical Societies in Iredell County through the years. The January 18, 1894 issue of The Landmark reported, “We are requested to five notice that there will be a meeting at Capt. P.C. Carlton’s to-morrow (Friday) night for the purpose of organizing a Library and Historical Society and to devise ways and means for the erection of a monument to the Confederate dead of Iredell County.”
On March 31, 1909, The Evening Mascot newspaper announced that “the Iredell County Historical Society is now a permanent thing.” Dr. Philip F. Laugenour was the acting president of the group which stated a special interest in collecting copies of the Iredell Express newspaper. It is not known how long this early historical society lasted, but on Sept. 12, 1948 Statesville’s own William S. Powell led 50 members of the N.C. Society of County Historians on a tour of Iredell County’s historical sites starting at Mt. Mourne and ending at the “Chamber’s Place” just west of Elmwood. Statesville’s early aviator Virginia Dietz Malcolm wrote about another such tour in Iredell by the Association of Local and County Historians in the Iredell Morning News on Aug. 13, 1956.
The Statesville Record and Landmark reported that Miss Rachel Morrison, vice regent, Fourth Creek Chapter of the DAR, was named chairman of a steering committee for the organization of an Iredell County Historical Society on May 10, 1962. Another group of local history buffs met on October 18, 1967, to form yet another Iredell County Historical Society. The group was led by history teacher and author Louis A. Brown and James O. Stradley. Their first actions were to appoint a committee to work on the restoration of Fort Dobbs and to designate member Homer Keever to make preparations for writing a history of the county. The group was chartered on Jan. 29, 1968 with the motto “The Future Belongs to the Past.”
Homer Keever published Iredell-Piedmont County in 1976 with the help of the Iredell County Bicentennial Committee itself an outgrowth of the Fort Dobbs Chapter of the DAR. Historic Iredell Foundation, Inc. was organized in August, 1975. The foundation was instrumental in helping to create the Historic Iredell Properties Commission in 1976. The Iredell Historical Properties Commission was a joint effort of the N.C. State Archives Dept. and the cities of Statesville and Mooresville and Iredell County. The Commission conducted a survey to locate historically valuable homes, buildings, and sites and to make their owners aware of their importance to help insure their future survival.
Gary Freeze, now a noted history professor and author, and Ruth Little-Stokes led the survey taking photos and conducting research which led to the publishing of the book, An Inventory of Historical Architecture, Iredell County North Carolina in 1978. The Genealogical Society of Iredell County was formed on May 17, 1977 and has been the primary historical group here over the last 40 years conducting research and publishing both books and a journal. Both volumes one and two of The Heritage of Iredell County were published by the Society. Their office and collection are located on the second floor of the Iredell County Public Library and is currently open by appointment only.
One might be tempted to say that many of these historical groups were failures since they gradually ceased to exist. The truth is though that often these groups ceased after they accomplished their main goals of conducting research, publishing their findings, preserving historical sites, and conducting historical celebrations. Declining membership due to age was probably a factor, but what has not declined is the interest that people still have today in remembering, learning about, and preserving our past.
Joel Reese, Local History Librarian, Iredell County Public Library, July 15, 2021
Educators are invited to the Legoengineering Educators Conference on The 4th Floor of the Downtown Chattanooga Public Library on Saturday, June 7 2014 from 8:30am until 4:00pm.
42 educators attended from throughout the Hamilton County Education system.
LEGOengineering is developed by the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), with the support of LEGO Education and innovative teachers from around the globe, including the Engineering Design Group Educators (EDGE).
The mission of LEGOengineering is to inspire and support teachers in bringing LEGO-based engineering to all students.
Here is Teen Librarian Justin Hoenke talking to the group about the 4th Floor maker space.
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A steady stream of more than 500 applicants flowed through the Community Choice Convention Center, from 8 to noon Saturday morning for the the annual Educator Career Fair. Interviews for high demand positions took place throughout the event, and more than 100 educators will be hired for the 2017-18 school year.
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Marine Educators Colin Young and Marty Momsen enjoy the deck of the R/V Thomas G. Thompson, as we set sail, 11 June 2013.
Credit: Ocean Networks Canada
Educator/bandleader/ trumpeter Jeremy Pelt has joined my portrait project. His is a great tone utilized with always compelling panache.