Upcoming Events

April 1	8th Annual Boston-area Advanced Technological Education Connections (BATEC) College Fair	Boston, MA
April 1	Engineer Your Future	Norwalk, CT
April 1-2	Mid-Pacific Information and Communication Technologies Center (MPICT): Consortium of Computing Sciences in Colleges 4th Southwestern Regional Conference	Los Angeles, CA
April 2	ISEC 2011 - Integrated STEM Education Conference: Best Practices in Integrated STEM Instruction	Ewing, NJ
April 3-5	2011 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference	San Francisco, CA
April 5-7	Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization (CNEU): Hands on Nanofabrication Workshop for Educators	State College, PA
April 5-8	Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Preparation Workshop	Asheville, NC
April 8	NetWorks Webinar: Robotics Now	Online
April 9-10	Winery Equipment Workshop	Fresno, CA
April 9-12	AACC Annual Convention	New Orleans, LA
April 14-16	North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) Judging Contest	Modesto, CA
April 16	Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL): Type 1 Day Private Workshop	Winston-Salem, NC
April 19-20	Advanced Modeling and Simulation of NEMS/MEMS and Nano/Micro-fluidic Devices	Ann Arbor, MI
April 27-29	2011 NAWI Conference	Scottsdale, AZ
April 28	General Dynamics Electric Boat - Workshop and Field Trip	Groton, CT
April 29	Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge (NACK Center): Nanotechnology in Medicine	Online
April 30 - May 1	Winery Sanitation Workshop	Augusta, MO
May 9-11	Micro Nano Tech Conference I (MNT I)	Albuquerque, NM
May 13	NetWorks Webinar: Sustaining Community College Technical Programs	Online
May 18	Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technological Education (Evalu-ate): Webinar: Developing and Validating Survey Instruments	Online
May 20-22	Teaching Professor Conference	Atlanta GA
May 21	Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL): Type 1 Day Private Workshop - 2YC3 Conference - Stark State College	North Canton, OH
May 23-24	Ag Innovation Showcase	St Louis, MO
May 23-27	Bio-Link Austin Meeting	Roundrock, TX
May 25-27	Council On Undergraduate Research (CUR): Initiating and Sustaining Undergraduate Research Programs	Portland, OR
May 26	Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge (NACK Center): Recruiting Underrepresented Minorities	Online

For more events please visit the ATE Central Events page or if you have any upcoming events that you would like posted on ATE Central or in the ATE Central Connection please send them to info@atecentral.net.

Featured ATE Resources

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

From ATETV:

Biotechnology; Precision Agriculture; Working with Medical Electronics

http://www.atetv.org/watch-videos/episode.aspx?e=1470

The ATETV project delivers web-based videos to connect students to careers in advanced technology. This episode of ATETV focuses on Biotechnology, Agricultural Sciences, and Medical Electronics. The video looks at the process and advantages of transferring from a two-year college onto a four-year institution. This video also showcases Agricultural Science and the impact that students can have on that field. It can be viewed whole or in three segments: "Community College Biotechnology Programs," "Agricultural Technology," and "Working with Medical Electronics." The running time for the full episode is 9:47.

From AgrowKnowledge:

Resource Kit for Agricultural Safety

http://www.flagsafe.ufl.edu/publications/res-kit.html

The Ag Teacher's Resource Kit was developed a couple of years ago for majors in the University of Florida's Agricultural Education and Communication Department. It was first presented to them before they went out for their first teaching assignments. The Kit has now become a standard part of the course Special Methods in Teaching Agriculture. Students are presented with the materials assembled in a 3" binder. A 2-hour block of time is allocated where the contents are described and reviewed. Recommendations or examples are also discussed for how the materials can be used in the classroom. The Kit has also been used as the basis of a workshop for teachers already in the field. In summer 2005, a 2-day workshop was held at the University of Florida for middle, junior and senior high school teachers. In addition to distributing and presenting the kit, attendees actually worked through several of the activities as if they were students. The resources listed are available for download from the Web. Use these links to make your own "Safety Resource Kit" notebook. Workshop participants have noted that it is very useful to have these items assembled in one place. You can then adapt these materials for use in your program, e.g., to meet requirements for core competencies. Resources are listed with a brief annotation about their contents. In order to make it easier to assemble a kit, links are also provided for a cover and an update or new materials page.

From Bio-Link:

Detection of Genetically Modified Food

http://www.bio-link.org/GMP/DetectionGMFcover.htm

Genetically modified foods are often in the news and widely grown in the United States. Three US government agencies (USDA, FDA, and EPA) work to regulate the introduction and production of genetically modified foods. These crops can provide agricultural, ecological and nutritional benefits, but there are also potential risks to the environment and consumers. As consumers and public interest groups around the world have become aware of these risks, there has been a call for more explicit product labeling and reliable methods for the detection of genetic modification in the foods we eat. This lab activity explores these issues by taking students through a three-part process to detect the presence of genetic modification in corn (maize) or soy food products. This lab uses PCR analysis, one of the two methods for detection of genetic modification currently approved by the European Union. For convenience, the resource is divided into 5 sections, all PDF files, including background, wet lab, paper lab, assessment and further reading.