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Teaching Technicians
This website links technician educators with National Science Foundation supported, state-of-the-art, faculty development in advanced & emerging technologies, teaching methods, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Lean Registry
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) announced the launching of the Lean Registry, a free connection and collaboration space for lean practitioners. The Lean Registry allows users to post needs/expertise directly to their profile, create virtual groups and make safe connections more easily. The Lean Registry is brought to you by SME with help from its partners and sponsors, such as The Associaition for Manufacturing Excellence (AME)and The Shingo Price for Excellence in Manufacturing.

AMTEC
AMTEC is a multi-college multi-state collaborative of community and technical colleges working together to improve the initial and ongoing preparation of high skill technicians and manufacturing engineers for successful work in automobile manufacturing. The work of the Collaborative will benefit the individuals and the companies they work for.

Lesson Plans Library
Discovery Education's lesson plan library.

Extraordinary Women Engineers Project
Through its real-life stories, the Changing Our World: True Stories of Women Engineers will serve as a fresh perspective and provide inspiration and encouragement for young women to pursue careers in engineering.

GeckoMan Game
Working in collaboration with Metaversal Studios, a company that specializes in educational game creation, the CHN has created "GeckoMan," a game that offers an interdisciplinary look at nanotechnology's scientific and social implications. “GeckoMan” teaches, through game play, the principles of nanoscale force interactions. The goal is a game that produces an “intuitive” understanding of these otherwise non-intuitive forces. The game is intended to be distributed to middle-school and high-school students through a variety of channels, including popular Internet gaming sites.


InterNano
InterNano is an open-source online information clearinghouse for the nanomanufacturing research and development (R&D) community in the United States. It is designed to provide this community with an array of tools and collections relevant to its work and to the development of viable nanomanufacturing applications.

Go PLM
The GO PLM Program was developed to address the essential business issues our customers face, including the shrinking supply of skilled employees as well as the gap between current workers skills and the level of performance required in today’s global manufacturing market. Siemens PLM Software offers grants through its Global Opportunities in Product Lifecycle Management (GO PLM™) initiative, which leads the PLM industry in the commercial value of in-kind grants it provides at more than US$4 billion annually. The company’s GO PLM initiative brings together fi ve complementary programs focused on: Academic Partnership Programs, Global Community Relations Programs, Regional Productivity Programs, Youth and Displaced Worker Development Programs, & Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education (PACE).

National Association of Manufacturers - YouTube
The National Association of Manufacturers has launched a YouTube channel stocked with video clips on manufacturing topics from "America's Business" and "Cool Stuff Being Made." It provides an excellent cross section of manufacturing topics in video format.

GirlStart
Girlstart is a non-profit organization created to empower girls to excel in math, science, and technology. Founded in 1997 in Austin, Texas, Girlstart has quickly established itself as a best-case practices leader in empowering, educating, and motivating girls to enjoy and become more proficient in math, science and technology.

Girls Creating Games
Girls Creating Games is an after-school and summer program designed to support the interest of middle school girls in computers and information technology (IT).

National Girls Collaborative Project
Numerous programs and initiatives to create gender equity in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) have been implemented only to lose effectiveness or fade away. Had these programs had the benefit of collaboration with other girl-serving projects, organizations and institutions, and tools to assess and evaluate the impact of their efforts, their capacity for continuation and/or broader impact could have been substantially increased.

The Story of Stuff
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

Nerd Girls
Despite efforts to attract women to engineering and science careers, these technical fields still remain elusive and do not appeal to young girls. While workshops and dedicated outreach efforts in K-12 continue to target this invisible barrier by introducing young girls to the workplace and to special math and science projects, the negative perception of women engineers and scientists is compounded by the "egghead" stereotype associated with engineering and science in general. Engineers and scientists are typically known as "geeks" or "nerds" and are considered lacking in social skills and non-technical interests.

IDEAS
IDEAS' goal when soliciting project activities was to identify low-cost, “hands-on” engineering projects for use in middle schools math, science and technology classes. The announcement attracted over 60 entries from teachers, engineers, and concerned educational and professional groups.  A panel of middle school teachers and engineers helped to plan the project and evaluated the entries. The resulting ‘IDEAS’ projects have been adapted from those entries. This resource is recommended by the SME-EF.

PCS Edventures!
Innovation, technology literacy, globalization, survival. It’s a new world for students, teachers, and administrators with new challenges that require new thinking. PCS Edventures! Delivers products and services rich in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) that make learning easier, more engaging, and more effective at all levels. PCS Edventures: New Learning for a New World.
This resource is recommended by the SME-EF.

Zoom Into Engineering
A joint project of ZOOM and National Engineers Week, Zoom has created materials for engineers to use with kids in classroom, after-school programs, libraries and even malls!
This resource is recommended by the SME-EF.

What's Up in Factories
A dynamic new curriculum package including an instructional videotape and teacher's guide, developed by Thirteen/WNET to help students get a handle on the new world of manufacturing and the opportunities that it offers. This resource is recommended by the SME-EF.

Assessing Women in Engineering
AWE is the Assessing Women in Engineering Project, funded by NSF (HRD 0120642) and designed to develop exportable assessment instruments, literature resources, and methodologies for Women in Engineering and similar programs. AWE Products are available through this site