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SEPTEMBER 2009
At the International Technology Education Association (ITEA) conference held in Kentucky
March 26-28, 2009, Mark Bolt, technology education teacher from Carson Middle School, received the middle school teacher excellence award. Bud Jacobs, technology education teacher from Franklin Middle School, received the middle school program excellence award.
The following state level association awards were given at the Virginia Technology Education Association (VTEA) summer conference held in Richmond on August 5: Amy Krellwitz, Lake Braddock Secondary School for Middle School Teacher of the Year; Michael Martin, Marshall High School for High School Teacher of the Year; and, Joe Franco, West Potomac High School for High School Program of the Year.
Several students from FCPS competed at the national Technology Student Association (TSA) event in Denver, Colorado from June 28 to July 3, 2009. Of note is Angela Roller from Oakton High School who placed second in the future technology teacher competition.
A new technology education program will be opening this school year at South Lakes High School. The program will start with basic technical drawing and design and technology courses, and hopes to expand into engineering and IB in the near future.
The JROTC program has explanded with an Army National Defense Cadet Corps (NDCC) now at Lake Braddock Secondary School.
The Technology Education Advisory Board was involved in the evaluation process for the exemplary program review last year. As a result of those evaluations, the following three high school technology programs were rated exemplary: West Potomac High School, South County Secondary School, and Hayfield Secondary School.
MAY 2009
Congratulations to students and teachers from Franklin, Carson, Frost, Irving, Key, Twain Middle Schools; Robinson Secondary School; Annandale, Chantilly, Madison, West Springfield, West Potomac, Woodson, Oakton High Schools; and, TJHSST who all participated in the Technology Student Association (TSA) Technosphere 2009 competition and conference in Tysons from May 1-3, 2009. Full results are available on http://www.vatsa.org/conferences/technosphere/winners/2009.html
Overall, there were eight 1st place winners, eight 2nd place winners, eleven 3rd place winners, several in the top ten, and as a district took 4th in middle school, 3rd in high school and 2nd as an overall district.
Michael Martin, technology education teacher, at Marshall High School was presented a TSA appreciation award for his participation and hosting of the flight challenges in this year’s Technosphere by the delegation of Virginia technology student association.
On February 27 and 28, the Chantilly Academy Robotics Team 612, along with instructor Marty Rothwell, competed at the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Regional Robotic Competition in Trenton, New Jersey and took 2nd place out of 61 teams! Team 612 won the 2009 Engineering Inspiration Award for the third consecutive year. The Engineering Inspiration Award celebrates outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering within a team’s school and community. Team 612 has demonstrated a long-term commitment to educating the youth of Northern Virginia about technology and engineering. They have accomplished this by hosting the regional FIRST Lego League (FLL) competition at Chantilly High School, participating in the Udvar Hazy Air and Space Museum’s annual Air and Scare event and teaching children at Wolftrap’s International Children’s Festival. Their extraordinary outreach to educating and inspiring children along with their Regional Inspiration Award has enabled the team to compete at FIRST’s National Championships in Atlanta in April.
Several technology education students at the middle and high school levels along with their teachers attended the 2nd annual LEGO NXT robotics challenge at Robinson Secondary on
May 16, 2009. The Fairfax Network filmed parts of the event to be included in part four of a program on Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) called Career Day: Robotics. Students had to design, assemble and program a robot to solve a bio-remediation problem.
The Technology Education Advisory Board (TEAB) has been involved as judges at the LEGO NXT challenge, Technosphere, and members of the Exemplary Program Review process for the high school TE program for 2008-09.
CAD teachers are finalizing student certifications throughout the county’s TE drawing programs.
APRIL 2009
At the International Technology Education Association (ITEA) conference held March 26-28, 2009, in Louisville KY, Mark Bolt, technology education teacher at Carson Middle School, was awarded the Middle School Teacher of the Tear Excellence Award and Bud Jacobs, technology education teacher at Franklin Middle School, was awarded the Middle School Program of the Year Excellence Award.
The Architecture Engineering and Construction (ACE) mentoring program scholarship selection committee met on April 8, 2009, and reviewed 17 scholarship applications. The committee proposes to award twelve $4,000 scholarships payable over a two year period. The committee also proposes to allow the selected individuals the opportunity to apply for another scholarship for two additional years provided they demonstrate satisfactory progress in one of the ACE career paths. Of the 17 scholarships, four were awarded to students from Woodson High School and one from Marshall High School.
Lance Baldwin, technology education teacher Rocky Run Middle School, was chosen to be featured in a video distributed by the American Society of Curriculum Development, Promoting Creativity and Innovation in the Classroom, for his curriculum that promotes 21st century skill development.
MARCH 2009
The Northern Regional Technology Student Association (TSA) competition was held at Mountain View High School in Stafford, VA on March 14. Of the total 265 students competing, approximately one third of the students were from FCPS, three FCPS students were elected as TSA regional officers--secretary from Oakton High School; and, treasurer and parliamentarian from Franklin Middle School. FCPS students had 90 students place in the top ten and 35 students placed in the top three.
Kilmer Middle School has been selected to receive a $5,000 Best Buy TeachTM Award. The purpose of the Teach@15 Award program is to improve learning by helping schools (grades 7-12) meet their technology needs. Best Buy believes technology can excite and engage students, creating a more valuable educational experience. Through Best Buy Teach Awards, gift cards are provided to schools to enable them to purchase more technology for students. Kilmer Middle School students plan to develop a video-based curriculum to teach robotics to students across the USA and the world over the Internet using the equipment funded by the award. In their technology class, students have learned basic engineering by assembling the Lego NXT robot and visual programming with Lego Mindstorm software. They have written programs using touch, light, ultrasonic, and sound sensors. By using digital photography editing, CAD (computer-aided design), networking, programming, and robotics, the students can teach others what they have learned.
Lance Baldwin, technology education teacher at Rocky Run Middle School, was featured with a student in part one of a four-part program by the FCPS Fairfax Network on alternative energy. The program focuses on STEM related career technologies and targets grades 5 to 8. Lance’s project was on solar home and solar energy. The segment can be seen at:
http://www.fcps.edu/DIT/streaming/cd1_buildingblocks.asx
Toss Cline, technology education teacher, and the James Madison High School (JMHS) Robotics Team (620) won the Washington DC Regional FIRST Robotics Competition held in February. The team placed first out of 64 teams representing 12 states. The team also won the web site award for the best team web site. FIRST Robotics is a national robotics competition in which each team has six weeks to conceptualize, design, build, test, and ship a robot. The game this year was called Lunacy because the slick playing surface helps to simulate the traction on the moon due to its reduced gravity. The JMHS robotics team usually participates in just one of the regional competitions. Also, since the team won the Washington D.C. Regional Competition, they will participate in the National Competition in Atlanta, Georgia on April 16-18.
The Technology Education Advisory Board (TEAB) was involved in the judging of the northern regional TSA fair and is preparing to conduct exemplary program review evaluation of Hayfield Secondary School, West Potomac High School, and South County Secondary School. The TEAB chair, Sal Bezos, will be attending the VDOE Imagine the Possibilities meeting on March 27, 2009 in Arlington.
FEBRUARY 2009
Technology education teachers and students around the county are preparing for the regional and state technology student association TSA competitions. The regional event will be at Mountain View High School in Stafford on March 14, 2009 http://www.vatsa.org/conferences/NorthernRegionProgram09.pdf
The state Technosphere will be at the Sheraton Premiere at Tyson Corner on May 1-3, 2009 http://www.vatsa.org/conferences/technosphere.htm
JANUARY 2009
To promote future STEM initiatives, the Franklin Middle School Technology Student Association (TSA) chapter received a $5000.00 grant from Northrop Grumman Corporation Technical Services.
CAD drawing students at Lake Braddock Secondary School had their work displayed on the Rhino 3 D website. These are all original student rendered creations done in a combination of various CAD programs. Please visit http://gallery.rhino3d.com/Default.asp?g=147 to see the work.
Adam Kemp, technology education teacher at TJHSST has created a series of videos on Internal Combustion Engine to assist students in learning concepts. These can be viewed at http://www.monkeysee.com/play/11134-understanding-an-internal-combustion-engine
On September 29, 2008, Robert Latham, optics and modern physics lab technology instructor at TJHSST, presented the annual educational accomplishments of the Optical Society of America and served as the high school physics representative for committee discussion at the 2008 national meeting of the Liaison Committees for Education and Underrepresented Minorities of the American Institute of Physics in College Park, Maryland.
On November 16, 2008, the "BLT" (Brilliant Lego Team) composed of three Rachel Carson students along with Langston Hughes and Cooper Middle School students won the 2008 Virginia/DC First Lego League Regional Tournament Champion's Award, 1st Place - Division 2. This is the highest award at the tournament. The team members attend three middle schools now, but they were teammates in 5th grade as a Hunters Woods team. They chose to stay together again this year for the third time.
Technology education students from Marshall High School will receive tuition assistance to a University of Maryland (UMD) summer program paid through the Architecture, Construction, and Engineering (ACE) scholarship sponsored by UMD. They will earn three semester hours of college credit as well as advances their knowledge. The three students from the ACE program that have received monetary awards to acknowledge their work are Matthew Chamberlin $4000 for university training in an ACE related field, Amanda Godfrey $2000 for university training in an ACE related field and Patrick Sullivan $1850 University of Maryland tuition grant for Young Scholars Program. He will take a three semester hour class over three weeks, in Architecture. Scholarship recipients from the University of Maryland were determined by the ACE Scholarship Committee. http://www.acementor.org/495
NOVEMBER 2008
Bud Jacobs, TE teacher from Franklin Middle School, was awarded the Technology Student Association (TSA) Virginia Chapter Advisor of The Year award at the TSA National Conference 2008 in Florida.
The Technology Education Advisory Board (TEAB) has conducted a discussion meeting on the STEM curriculum materials develop this past summer. The board is formulating input that will be reported at the end of November.
Several schools attended the Northern Regional TSA fall rally November 1, 2008, at H.H. Poole Middle School in Stafford County. Schools are gearing up for the Northern Regional Fair on March 14, 2009, at Mountain View High School in Stafford.
SEPTEMBER 2008
The Virginia Technology Education Association (VTEA) 2008 summer conference was held in Virginia Beach from August 5-8, 2008. Approximately 25 teachers attended the event and several FCSP teachers received recognition.
High School Regional Teacher of the Year–Ivan Chirinos, Edison High School
Middle School Teacher of the Year–Mark Bolt, Carson Middle School
Middle School Program of the Year–Bud Jacobs, Franklin Middle School
VTEA Achievement Award–Chu-Chun Tsai, Woodson High School
The Technology Students Association (TSA) Nationals 2008 competition was held in Orlando, FL. Competing schools were Franklin Middle School, Robinson Secondary School, and Chantilly High School. These schools placed in nine events and took three first place, two second place and two third place awards along with placing in the top ten in other events.
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