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The National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education (NSF-ATE) program awards over $50,000,000 (yes,
The goals of NSF-ATE, career pathways, Tech Prep, and STEM initiatives are mutually supportive. If you are not already involved, you should read the four articles and attend some of the conference sessions in the NSF-ATE mini-strand. One of the articles answers the question "What is the NSF-ATE program?" The others describe three (of the more than thirty) funded centers, each focusing on a different technology field—manufacturing, nanotechnology, and information technology. (NSF-ATE also funds more than 200 smaller projects.) Although each of the three highlighted centers is headquartered at a community college, their work encompasses either wide regions within their states, several states, or partnerships across the nation.
In addition to information in this newsletter and at the NCPN conference, more than twenty NSF-ATE centers and projects have collaborated to form a conference called HI-TEC (High Impact Technology Exchange Conference). The 2009 conference was in Scottsdale, Arizona, and the 2010 conference will be in Orlando, Florida, on July 26–29. Read about the 2009 conference at www.highimpact-tec.org, which will also provide information about the 2010 conference as it is posted.
Regardless of which hi-tech career pathway holds your interest, there is much to gain by learning more about the NSF-ATE program.
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David Bond is Director of the National Career Pathways Network and a CORD Senior Vice President. For more information, contact David at dbond@cord.org.