V. Celeste Carter traces the connection between the federal government’s two large technician education programs to a conversation she had in 2011.
Carter, co-lead program director of the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program, said she received a phone call from Kumar Garg, senior advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, when the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) was planning its education initiative to help displaced workers.
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This is an excerpt from an article published in a recent issue of theCommunity College Journal, the bimonthly flagship magazine of the American Association of Community Colleges
(AACC).
With the leadership of community college educators and their industry partners, the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program has achieved an impressive record of incubating innovative science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs.
ATE’s mission to increase the quality of technicians working in fields of strategic importance to the nation’s economy and security has led to improvements in two-year technical programs, secondary school STEM classes and faculty professional development throughout the nation.
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The National Science Foundation(NSF) invites community college students to solve big problems and win prizes in the first-ever Community College Innovation Challenge 
(CCIC).
Two-year college students — working in groups of three to five — have until Jan. 15 to submit 90-second videos and essays that explain their science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) solutions to real-world problems in big data, sustainability, infrastructure security, broadening participation in STEM or improving STEM education.
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With an evangelist’s zeal, David R. Brown, a program director at the National Science Foundation (NSF), urges community college educators to 
apply by the Jan. 13 deadline for the agency’s Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) grants.
The elements of the Design and Development tier within the two tracks of the IUSE program fit well with community colleges’ implementation of promising practices for developing the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce, according to Brown. Funding in IUSE Engaged Student Learning may be up to $600,000 for Level I awards, and up to $2 million for Level II awards. In the Institution and Community Transformation track, awards are up to $3 million.
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