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Special from Jeff Gray, PhD
Department of Computer Science, The University of Alabama

Application/Flyer: NSF Project to Support Computer Science in Black Belt High Schools

Through a grant from the National Science Foundation, Tuskegee University, Auburn University, The University of Alabama, the ECS team and other stakeholders are partnering to provide professional development activities to prepare teachers from the Alabama Black Belt for Exploring Computer Science (ECS) course instruction in their high schools.    Read more:

URL: http://bit.ly/ECS-BlackBelt

K-12 Alabama Robotics Contest set for April 8, 2017 in Tuscaloosa

This robotics competition is open to teams of  2-5  Alabama students  from public, private, or home schools across all grade levels (elementary, middle, high schools).The contest will feature several obstacle courses that must be navigated over a three-hour period by an autonomous robot that is programmed by each team.

To sign up or learn more, go to this URL: http://outreach.cs.ua.edu/robotics-contest/

Scholarships Available for Teacher Summer Training – DUE FEB. 15

AP® Summer Institutes (APSIs) offer weeklong professional development programs where you can network with peers and learn about tools and resources that inspire success in Advanced Placement® classrooms. 

This year, the AP program is providing three scholarships:

1.      AP Fellows program provides scholarships of $1,000 to teachers toward APSI tuition, travel, and expenses to teachers.  These scholarships are available to AP teachers who are teaching in the 2017-18 academic year at schools where at least 50 percent of the student population consists of underrepresented minorities (African American, Hispanic/Latino, and/or Native American students) and/or at least 50 percent of the student population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch.

2.      AP Rural Fellows program provides scholarships of $1,500 toward APSI tuition, travel, and expenses to teachers at high schools in rural areas of the United States These scholarships are available to AP teachers who are teaching in the 2017-18 academic year at schools classified as “rural” by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and where at least 50 percent of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.

3.      AP Capstone scholarships  are available to AP teachers who are teaching AP Seminar or AP Research in the 2017-18 academic year at schools that meet the following criteria: (a) median income in the area or district served is below $87,500 and/or (b) at least 50 percent of the school’s student population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch.

Applications will be accepted until Feb. 15, 2017.

If you want to attend an APSI and have no other source of funding, we encourage you to apply.

To learn more about this program and other AP Summer Institute scholarship programs, visit the APSI teacher scholarships Web page. If you have any questions, email apsischolarships@collegeboard.org.