President Honors Outstanding Math and Science Teachers

WASHINGTON, DC -- President Obama today named 85 mathematics and science teachers as recipients of the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.  The educators will receive their awards in Washington, D.C. later this year.
 
The Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching is awarded annually to outstanding K-12 science and mathematics teachers from across the country. The winners are selected by a panel of distinguished scientists, mathematicians, and educators following an initial selection process done at the state level.  Each year the award alternates between teachers teaching kindergarten through 6th grade and those teaching 7th through 12th grades.  The 2010 awardees named today teach kindergarten through 6th grade.

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – April 11, 2011 Jean-Yves Chever, Vice President Sales & Marketing, Americas, OHAUS Corporation, announces that Marcy Whited, a teacher at Farmersville Intermediate School, in Farmersville, TX, has won the 2011 Gustav Ohaus Award. Whited played an integral role in the development, fundraising and implementation of the Farmersville Intermediate School Outdoor Lab, which provides a hands-on approach to earth science and measurement skills education.

For nine years, Whited has provided energetic, practical education, designing a science curriculum that requires active participation instead of simply reading and testing. The Outdoor Lab, outfitted with rain gauges, anemometers and thermometers, allows students to read and record changes of specific units of measure including temperature, rainfall volume and wind speed. It also allows for valuable earth science lessons, as students create landforms to witness erosion, while also burying and unearthing objects to observe decomposition. The students utilize OHAUS balances to compare soil mass, density and porosity, as each measurement is a valuable component of the earth science curriculum.

San Antonio, Texas – The Texas Wildlife Association Foundation and San Antonio Livestock Exposition, Inc. announce the opportunity for two deserving teachers to be recognized for their contributions and earn a financial award for their school in the amount of $2,500.  This $2,500 school “scholarship” will be awarded to the school in recognition of the winning teachers’ use of innovative techniques and curricula to promote natural resource literacy among their students.

Allegro Production’s Virtual Scientist Guest Lecturer Series, in celebration of the National Engineers Week Foundation’s “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day” on February 24^th, is pairing up engineers with schools to serve as virtual scientist guest lecturers to discuss with students (grades 6-12) the work involved in becoming, and being an engineer, in an effort to educate students about the field of engineering.  Virtual visits will take place via Skype or existing videoconferencing systems.  Support for this event is funded by a grant from the Motorola Foundation; there is no charge to participate.  To register or receive more details, please contact Fallon@ssrvideo.net.  The deadline is Friday, February 11 at 5pm EST.  Visit the website at www.ssrvideo.com.