IEShop
On our website you will find information about the ways that we can help your company stay abreast of the latest technologies and best practices from both engineering and business management perspectives. Ultimately, we aim to help you increase efficiency, productivity, quality, and, as a result, profits. The website describes our extensive products and services for continuing education; industrial and solar energy; environmental, safety, and health management; lean enterprise; construction; and quality. Additionally, you can access true stories describing successful collaborations with North Carolina companies, test your "IQ" on various subjects, and tap into a multitude of other resources.
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Pre-Engineering Summer Camps
The following camp directory lists some of the summer camps for high school students in science, mathematics, and engineering throughout the United States that are and were previously offered. The directory lists camps that have been hosted by Universities and research centers in the past. Please note that all camps may not be offered every year and that new camps and programs are currently being added. Old or unsuccessful programs are always being eliminated or modified. A substantial number of programs specifically target minorities, women, and other groups traditionally underrepresented in the sciences.
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Nuts, Bolts, and Thingamajigs Student Center
Welcome to the Student Center, your link to building a career in metal forming and fabricating. Learn about available scholarships, find salary information for different careers in metal forming, and even find manufacturing camps and schools to prepare for your career.
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Nuts, Bolts, and Thingamajigs Scholarships
Since 1990, FMA's foundation has awarded scholarships annually to students in courses of study that may lead to careers in manufacturing. College scholarships for non-members are $2,500 per school year and college scholarships for members are $5,000 per school year. Trade school and two-year college scholarships up to $2,000 require membership.
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LASER Teacher Toolkits - Elementary
Washington State Leadership and Assistance for Science Education Reform (LASER) is part of the National Science Resources Center's (NSRC) LASER Center funded in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Our program is centered on the use of NSRC's Strategic Planning Institute that has been offered to school districts across the country since 1989. The Strategic Planning Institutes help school districts implement research-based science instructional materials. Many of these school districts have become models of successful implementation for the rest of the country. The instructional materials implemented and the professional development used is based on the best research available regarding the qualities of a successful science education program.
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The Salvadori Curriculum
Over the past 30 years, the Salvadori Center has created a body of curriculum materials that has enabled hundreds of teachers and thousands of students to master the core subject areas as well as have a great deal of fun along the way. The Salvadori curriculum aims to gives teachers and students the tools to turn the abstract into the concrete through a range of activities, projects, and practices all solidly grounded in the principles of project-based learning.
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EPICS
EPICS teams undergraduates to design, build, and deploy real systems to solve engineering-based problems for local community service and education organizations.
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The Infinity Project
The Infinity Project is a national high school and early college math and science-based engineering and technology education initiative that helps educators deliver a maximum of engineering exposure with a minimum of training, expense and time. Created to help students see the real value of math and science and its varied applications to high tech engineering.
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The Ford Partnership for Advanced Studies (Ford Pas)
Ford PAS is an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary curriculum and program that provides students with content knowledge and skills necessary for future success in such areas as business, economics, engineering, and technology. The inquiry and project-based program offers a series of modules that links learning in traditional academic subjects with the challenges students will face in post-secondary education, along with the expectations of tech workplace they will face as adults. These links are forged through community-wide, cooperative efforts and partnerships that join local high schools, colleges and universities with businesses.
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TOYChallenge
TOYchallenge is a national toy design challenge for 5th-8th graders and a chance for teams of imaginative kids to create a new toy or game. Toys are a great way to learn about science, engineering, and the design process. That's why astronaut Sally Ride brought Hasbro, Sigma XI, Southwest Airlines, and Sally Ride Science together to launch this challenge!
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National Junior Solar Sprint
A U.S. Department of Energy program where student teams in grades 6-8 construct model solar-powered cars and race them.
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Nano Lessons
A repository of lessons are available for instructors that wish to incorporate cutting-edge nanoscience into their STEM curricula. Each NanoLesson contains a descriptive summary, sample lesson pages, related simulations and seminars. These Nano Lessons are targeted for the 7-12 grade classroom. All materials on the NanoEd Resource Portal are peer-managed and covered by a creative-commons attribution, non-commercial share-alike type licensing.
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Mathcounts
A national math coaching and competition program for 7th and 8th grade students.
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LASER Teacher Toolkits - Middle School
Washington State Leadership and Assistance for Science Education Reform (LASER) is part of the National Science Resources Center's (NSRC) LASER Center funded in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Our program is centered on the use of NSRC's Strategic Planning Institute that has been offered to school districts across the country since 1989. The Strategic Planning Institutes help school districts implement research-based science instructional materials. Many of these school districts have become models of successful implementation for the rest of the country. The instructional materials implemented and the professional development used is based on the best research available regarding the qualities of a successful science education program.
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