Featured: 6-26-2013 TryEngineering

TryEngineering is a resource for students, teachers, and parents about engineering and engineering careers.

It is hoped that TryEngineering will help young people better understand what engineering means, and lead them to consider an engineering career. Here students will find information on the different disciplines within engineering and descriptions of the lifestyles and experiences of engineers.

TryEngineering provides:

• Hands-on experiments and activities.
• Referrals to summer programs and internship opportunities.
• Tools to search for schools that offer engineering programs.
• Tips on course selection, applying to colleges, and financial aid.

Parents and educators will find teaching resources, information about school accreditation, and other information that can be of help in planning and preparing students for a career in engineering.

Teachers can download free standards-aligned lessons for students aged 8–18, aimed at introducing engineering concepts and allowing the application of engineering principles in the classroom.

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TryEngineering is a joint effort between IEEE, IBM and the New York Hall of Science.

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Featured: 3/4/2013 CTE Online [CTE]

CTE Online is an online source for Career and Technical Education model curriculum, resources, tools, and community.



CTE Online was established to help CTE educators express a clear and purposeful relationship between academic achievement and Career and Technical Education through access to:

• Professional curriculum development tools.
• Professional alignment and instructional strategies resources.
• Standards databases.

CTE Online is designed to bring CTE educators and leaders quality professional development tools that help "establish the role rigorous academic skills play in pursuit of industry and career related coursework."



Here you can find the tools necessary to help teachers identify and align career and technical curricula with the academic skills commonly measured on state assessments. CTE Online allows skilled  CTE educators to share the work they are doing to equally support both current academic challenges and future career interests.

Nearly 1500 teachers a day access and use CTE Online as part of their professional experience with thousands of lesson plans containing ready-to-use classroom materials, videos, resources, and activities.

CTE Online was developed by the Butte County Office of Education's Center for the Advancement of Digital Resources in Education under contract with the California Department of Education.

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