Monday, February 20, 2012
GRANTS AND FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES - 02.20.12
Since 1996, DoSomething.org has honored the nation’s best young world-changers.
Maximum award: a community grant of $100,000, media coverage, and continued support from DoSomething.org.
Eligibility: youth ages 25 and under.
Deadline: March 01, 2012.
ESU: Fellowships for American high school teachers
English-Speaking Union of the United States British Universities Summer School fellows have the opportunity to perform on the stage of the Globe Theatre during Teaching Shakespeare in Performance at Shakespeare’s Globe, London, England.
The University of Oxford offers a variety of English Literature courses, as well as courses in Creative Writing and History, Politics and Society.
Scottish Universities International Summer School (SUISS) program, based in Edinburgh, offers Literature in Twentieth-Century Britain and Creative Writing.
Maximum award: full or partial scholarship to study in Britain, which includes tuition, most meals, and dorm room with shared bath.
Eligibility: high school teachers with five to fifteen years of experience who will teach the following year.
Deadline: March 02, 2012.
NABT: Evolution Education Award
The National Association of Biology Teachers Evolution Education Award, sponsored by the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) and National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), recognizes innovative classroom teaching and community education efforts to promote the accurate understanding of biological evolution.
Maximum award: $1,000 cash prize; recognition; and a one-year complimentary NABT membership.
Deadline: March 15, 2012.
NABT: Ron Mardigian Biotechnology Teaching Award
The National Association of Biology Teachers Ron Mardigian Biotechnology Teaching Award (sponsored by Bio-Rad Laboratories) recognizes an educator who has demonstrates outstanding and creative teaching of biotechnology in the classroom.
The award may be given for either a short-term series of activities or a long integration of biotechnology into the curriculum.
The lessons must include active laboratory work and encompass major principles as well as processes of biotechnology.
Topics may include any aspect of basic DNA or protein biotechnology or immunology or applied biotechnology in areas such as medical, forensic, plant and environmental biotechnology.
Criteria for selection include creativity, scientific accuracy and currency, quality of laboratory practice and safety, ease of replication, benefit to students, and potential significance beyond the classroom.
Maximum award: recognition; a one-year complimentary NABT membership; and $1,500 (up to $500 toward travel to the NABT Professional Development Conference, $500 in Bio-Rad materials, and $500 toward general science supplies).
Eligibility: secondary school teachers or undergraduate college biology instructors.
Deadline: March 15, 2012
The message should be much more important than the messenger but still people just don’t read or take the responsibility of independent thinking. It seems more important to know who said it, to be on the “right” side. I don’t like bullies. I don’t care for people telling others what they should and should not say or how to say it. That’s my right, my opinion. Don’t have any problem signing my name to this but for now I’ll just use…
To Not Me,