MVTPC UNDERGOES SOME CHANGES
There are lots of new changes taking place around the Miami Valley Tech Prep Consortium for the 2008-2009 academic year. Long time MVTPC Director, Ron Kindell, has moved up to assume a new role at Sinclair Community College as an Associate Vice President effective July 1, 2008. Ron will be working to develop and maintain Sinclair’s relationship with Dayton Public Schools, primarily focusing his efforts on the new David H. Ponitz Career Technology Center. As a result, Assistant Director Nick Wilson has been appointed as the Interim Director of the Miami Valley Tech Prep Consortium. In addition, the office for MVTPC has moved! We are now located in Building 6, Room 131 on Sinclair’s campus.


REMINDER TO ALL JUNIOR TECH PREP TEACHERS – COMPLETE SINCLAIR ADMISSIONS APPLICATION!
If you are teaching a junior Tech Prep class, please be sure to have them fill out the on-line Sinclair application for admission. This is an extremely important step as it permits Tech Prep students to come on campus for early Accuplacer testing and taking any on-line college proficiency tests. You can find the link to Sinclair’s admission application at http://www.sinclair.edu/admissions/application/. Please try and have your juniors complete the application by Friday, September 26, 2008.
Contact Jammie Schneider or Linda York for assistance.

MVTPC IS NOW PART OF TWO NEW NSF GRANTS
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Sinclair Community College the Dayton Urban STEM Academy grant for $642,863 for three years beginning January 1, 2009. The MVTPC will be involved in helping to implement this grant. This STEM teacher talent professional development initiative will create:
• An environment where urban high school students pursue urban teaching careers.
• A STEM teacher development pipeline with articulation from high school to community college to four-year universities to produce the next generation of STEM educators for impoverished urban schools.
• A new K-12 science and mathematics teacher education paradigm that utilizes national and state Tech Prep program standards and best practices in STEM education to provide future teachers a solid, content-rich foundation in STEM disciplines and the pedagogical framework to effectively teach STEM subjects.

NSF also awarded SCC & Riverside CC in California a $70,000.00 Planning Grant for a National Center of Logistics & Supply Chain Technology (7/1/08 to 10/1/09) The planning objective is to develop a five-year strategic plan for a National Center Grant of $5,000,000.00. The proposed National Center of Logistics & SC Technology will develop high-quality programs, curricula, & faculty professional development in the STEM disciplines of: Mathematics: (i.e. Operations Research, Statics) Technology: (i.e. Global Positioning Systems, Radio Frequency Identification) Engineering: (i.e. Human-machine interface, Automated systems design)