Student+Involvement

=Student Involvement=

Toni Sulkowski, Frank Muto, Aileen Owens

Some ideas that we have been tossing around include:

> Invite higher education profs and students to do presentations-Aileen has contacts at CMU and Duquesne

> Student poster sessions: where ever there is space and we would need 6-8 foot tables for the students and probably adequate number of electrical outlets. Until we know where we are location-wise, we can't identify maximum number of poster presenters

> Students who wish to do a more formal presentation would be Wed. night--need to know how many sessions--3?

> We would like to recommend that on the application there be a check box to indicate whether or not this is a student presentation. Should there be a different form for poster presenters?

> Would like to either provide snacks, dinner or some token of appreciation to students-will Highmark fund this?

> Team has been sharing this opportunity at their respective IUs.

> It would be nice for members of the PIttsburgh Technology council to be invited, especially to see student presentation

> Have Ning available for registration process so students could form collaborative groups based on similar projects This summer we visited the Learning Alliance to discuss the lay out for the student component.
 * One possibility was to have students located int eh dinner area (up to 25 students).
 * We also looked at the alternative of in the main hallway so people could walk through before and after dinner.

We were concerned as to how to get the word out--we want principals and superintendents to encourage teachers to get students to apply. We also need to continue to contact the IUs, too. We want to encourage local teachers to have their students share projects that employ technology. Maybe this can go on the TRETC site? CFF teachers and Keystoners may be a good set of people to contact.

What will be given to the students as a token of thank you?