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1. LPT would like to welcome to the team Dean McMillin. Dean has been
busy writing grants and helping to keep the TORCH and CORE programs running
smoothly.
2. Remember, all Woodies at the NSTA convention in Boston are invited
to attend a reception on Thursday, March 25 in Salon A of the Back Bay
Hilton on 40 Dalton Street. We're looking forward to seeing everyone there!
If you can't make it to the reception, you can always stop by the LPT booth
in the exhibition hall. We'll be on the second level in the General
Interest area.
3. Awards and Honors
- Pat Colbert Cormier (BI93) was named a 1998 Albert Einstein Fellow
by NASA.
- George Hague (CI85) was named Texas Chemistry Teacher of the Year by
the Association of Chemistry Teachers in Texas.
- Pat Lisoskie (BI96) was awarded a Fulbright Memorial Teachers'
Program Scholarship to spend three weeks in Japan studying the educational
system there.
- Jewel Reuter (BI97) won the NSTA/Toshiba Laptop Learning Challenge
and the Tandy/Radio Shack Teaching award. She will be honored for both of
these awards at the NSTA convention in Boston.
- Charlotte Trout (CI88) has been funded by NSF to study computer
modeling and its effects on student learners.
4. Opportunities
- Geri Anderson-Nielsen (MI91) has developed a number of classroom
activities using The Geometer's Sketchpad (GSP), a program containing a
ruler, a protractor, a calculator, and a simple word processor, in addition
to graphing possibilities for the Cartesian plane. Geri's activities can be
found at http://forum.swarthmore.edu/sketchpad/littleones/
<http://forum.swarthmore.edu/sketchpad/littleones/> .
- Lee Marek (CI83) is leading a history of science tour in England and
Scotland from June 22 to July 6, 1999. The theme of the tour will be
"Science and the Industrial Revolution" and will focus on places considered
to be the cradle of the first Industrial Revolution. The cost is $2450, but
funding is sometimes available for courses such as this. For further
information or sign-up materials, please contact: Lee Marek at
Lmarek@aol.com <mailto:Lmarek@aol.com> or Yvonne Twomey at ytwomey@mcs.com
<mailto:ytwomey@mcs.com> or (630) 961-9811.
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March 16, 1999. Volume 4. Issue 3.
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