Stonybrook Middle School, Program Excellence Award Presented at ITEA’s Annual Conference

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Albuquerque, NM, March 18, 2004 – (Stonybrook Middle School, Indianapolis, Indiana) was recently honored by the International Technology Education Association as one of 27 school programs from across the U.S. to receive its prestigious Program Excellence Award.

If You Build The Bridge, They Will Break It!

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Technology Education teacher, Christine Floyd and a small group of highly motivated students from Brownsburg West Middle School’s Gateway to Technology class have been meeting several times a week to design and build bridges.  Given a set of instructions from IUPUI, some balsa wood, glue and a lot of determination, they worked very hard to design and build a variety of bridge structures for the 2005 Bridge Design Competition and Construction Expo at IUPUI.

Teacher in Iraq awaits special delivery

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Three days, a bit of donated wood and a lot of elbow grease were all it took for Tecumseh Middle School students to let one soldier in Iraq know Lafayette is thinking about him...

Technology Educators of Indiana 2004 Awards

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Greenfield Central and technology education teacher Mark Holzhausen are featured in this newspaper article about Project Lead The Way.

Crawfordsville High School: Show your stuff

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Students were not only challenged to create Gatorade bottle designs, but they also had to convince industry experts Thursday why their projects should be used in the market place. The 25 Crawfordsville High School student designers are members of Doug Showalter’s “Introduction to Engineering Design” class. The course is part of Project Lead the Way’s pre-engineering program. Kevin Osborn, engineering manager at Alcoa CSI, and Jerry Barnett, products engineer at Raybestos Products Co., judged products during the morning presentations.

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With a yearly budget of $300 for the entire program, Cowan Junior-Senior High School technology education teacher Mike Evans tells his students that the best tool they own is their brain.

Concord High School

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When students enter one of Mike DuBois' technology classes at Concord High School, they might not be thinking of engineering as a career option. But once they participate in the activities Mr. DuBois has set up for them, many change their mind.

High Tech Academy at Mount Vernon High School Offers Virtual Reality

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Mount Vernon High School is one of only a handful of schools across the United States to offer Virtual Reality as part of the curriculum through CAD experiences within the Design Processes and Computers in Design and Production courses.

North Harrison Middle School

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Chris Allen and his students at North Harrison Middle School construct houses for the Milltown Police Department and the Harrison County Sheriff's Department for the canine units as a community service project.

Mt. Vernon High School’s High Tech Academy Partnership with Hancock Memorial Hospital

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The students enrolled in Mt. Vernon High School’s High Tech Academy, Computers in Design and Production Systems class are getting some real-world experience applying the skills they have developed in CADD and computer modeling and animation through a partnership with Hancock Memorial Hospital.

Jasper High School Helps Elementary Schools in Corporation

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Jasper, Indiana- Mr. Jerry Uebelhor's Construction Processes class at Jasper High School wanted to help elementary schools in the Greater Jasper Consolidated School Corporation.

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"Doug Dillion epitomizes everything we should be doing as classroom teachers." statement by Ken Pierce, Vigo County School Corporation, Director of career, technology and adult education. In this article, Doug Dillion from Honey Creek Middle School is featured.

New Palestine High School

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Dan Ginther shares a few examples of the outstanding opportunities that he provides his students within his technology education courses at New Palestine High School. Examples include robotics, card boat design challenge, and Tech T.R.E.K.

Tecumseh program attends to students' special needs

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For the first time at the sixth- through eighth-grade school, a large number of special needs students have had the opportunity to take a new technology education class designed for them.

Greenfield Central High School

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In this installment of "Bright Ideas" by ITEA, Greenfield Central High School is recognized for the development of exemplary technology education programs. The curriculum and facilities are also discussed.

Purdue technology education program ranked No. 1 in nation

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The Association for Career and Technical Education has named Purdue's Technology Education Program the best at preparing future technology teachers at the K-12 level. The award recognizes both the quality of the program's coursework and the abilities and contributions of its graduates.

Purdue Release

Inside Indiana Business Article

Kokomo High School and the Kokomo Area Career Center

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In this installment of "Bright Ideas" by ITEA, the Kokomo High School and the Kokomo Area Career Center are recognized for the development of exemplary technology education programs. This feature discusses How Kokomo integrates Project Lead The Way, Technology Education, and various additional Career and Technical Education offerings in order to help students become successful for both today and tomorrow.

Geoff Chandler at Franklin Central High School

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Franklin Central High School teacher, Geoff Chandler is recognized by ITEA and discusses a few tips about why he is professionally active and provides a few teaching tips.

Ball State University Student Competitive Event Day

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More than 150 high school students visited Ball State Oct. 19 for the Department of Industry and Technology’s fall conference. Dillon Rinker, a freshman at Blackford High School, shows off a device he’s constructed and initiates a design sequence that will pop a balloon. Visiting students toured campus, met faculty members and participated in competitive events.

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Valparaiso High School Technology Students competed on October 19, 2004 at the Ball State Competitive Events Day in Muncie, IN. The Department of Industry and Technology sponsored the competition and judging was done by College Professors in the IT Department. Valparaiso High School students competed in six events and won championship honors in three of them. A total of 12 schools from Indiana competed in the event.

VHS Technology Students at Stadium Construction Site

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Students in Mr. Gary Gray’s Civil Engineering and Architecture class were given an on site lesson of steel framing by Mr. Bill Foster, steel erection sub-contractor for Larson-Danielson Construction and Engineering Inc. The students were instructed on the delivery, sizing, erection and fastening techniques used to build the new football stadium at Valparaiso High School. Mr. Foster, of Stevens Ironworks also described the procedures used to locate the hot-dipped galvanized steel members from the designer’s drawings and how some fabrication takes place on the site. Safety and crane operations were also topics of instruction. The students have been following the procedures while studying steel structures in this Project Lead the Way, Pre-Engineering class at VHS.

Indiana High School Design Competition: VHS Technology Students named Finalist, April 26, 2004

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Students in Gary Gray’s Civil Engineering and Architecture (CEA) class at Valparaiso High School recently participated in the Indiana High School Design Competition sponsored by the American Institute of Architects-Indianapolis Chapter in Indianapolis, Indiana. The design challenge was incorporated into the CEA classes unit study of Architecture.

2004 PLTW Design Challenge: VHS Technology Students Awarded for Teamwork in Design

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The Valparaiso High School Engineering and Design Team competed in the 2004 Engineering Design Challenge at Rensselear High School. The contest was between high schools in Indiana that offer the “Project Lead the Way” Pre-Engineering curriculum and was sponsored by Purdue University, the Indian Trails Career Cooperative and the Indiana Department of Education. The Valparaiso High School Team was awarded the BEST in TEAMWORK DESIGN for their effort.

Prof helps teens learn to help dogs live better

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The Ball State University professor, who teaches technology teacher education, has been working with 26 students at Cowan High School since the start of the school year. The class is building seven dog houses that will be donated to local animal welfare groups such as HARM (Helping Animals Receive Mercy) and ARF (Animal Rescue Fund).