Recruiting students for Advisory Council - applications due 2/15!
We are currently recruiting 9th - 11th grade students to participate on the national Speak Up Student Advisory Council. This leadership role provides students an opportunity to share their point of view about key issues in science, math and technology education. The time commitment is from Mar 1, 2008 - Feb 28th, 2009; 1-2 hours per month. Students who participate on the council will:
- Develop key skills, including: leadership, organization, problem solving, critical-thinking, and teamwork.
- Provide ideas that will be used by Project Tomorrow and shared with Congress, the U.S. Department of Education, State Governors and school district administrators.
- Be invited to participate in webinars and panel discussions at conferences or to write articles for our website and other publications.
- Receive information about internships from Project Tomorrow and our partners.
- Receive community service hours and national recognition for taking a leadership role.
Please encourage your students to submit an application today or contact Jason Youdeem for additional information.
Speak Up 2007 – A Big Success!
Thank you for all of your support and participation! Speak Up 2007 was the best ever with over 367,000 K-12 students, teachers, parents and school leaders representing all 50 states and DC. This represents an overall growth in participation of 37%! Top 10 participating states (# of surveys submitted) in 2007: TX, CA, AZ, IL, AL, MD, NC, PA, FL and MI. We even had schools from Canada, Mexico and Australia.
We also achieved another significant milestone – the 1 millionth student submitted their survey on December 10th. Julie Evans will announce that student’s school on Friday, Jan 29th at FETC in Orlando, FL. Stay tuned for more details. As a special recognition, that student’s school will receive a SMARTboard and stand from SMART Technologies; additionally, the school and district staff will be invited to participate with us at our annual Speak Up Congressional Briefing in Washington DC this spring.
The success of Speak Up 2007 would not be possible without our fabulous sponsors: CDW-G, SMART Technologies, PASCO scientific, Futurekids, Discovery Educators Network, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and KI Education. Special thanks also to our National Outreach Partners – SETDA, CoSN and NSBA for their wonderful support and to all of the almost 100 nonprofit organizations and associations that help us spread the word about Speak Up. Thanks for the support!
