Welcome to the tenth issue of CTE Trends for 2010-11!

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CCCS & Colorado Coalition for Gender and Information Technology Receive $200,000 NSF Grant to Fund Workshop Series for Community College Educators

15 years from now, a female IT professional currently in today's education pipeline may create a holographic computer system like this.

The Colorado Coalition for Gender and Information Technology (CCGIT), the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) and the Colorado Community College System jointly announce that the National Science Foundation (“NSF”) has awarded a $200,000 grant to launch the Recruitment and Retention for Community Colleges Program (“R2C2”)... .Read more..

Two Adams 12 Five Star Schools-Bollman Tech Teams Advance to Semi-Finals of Uplifting & Empowering National Engineering Competition

Teacher "Joe" is a beneficiary of one of an assistive device designed by one of the Bollman Tech teams which recently advanced to the semi-finals of this national competition.

Two teams from Adams 12 Five Star School’s Bollman Technical Education Center in Thornton have advanced to the semi-finals of an uplifting people-empowering national completion conducted by the Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS).... .Read more..

CTE Trends Readers Offered Promo Code to Save $20 Off Tickets to the
2011 Taste of Elegance

CTE educators and the public at-large are invited to join twelve renowned Colorado chefs at the 2011 Taste of Elegance.  This Colorado FFA Foundation event, which is returning this year to the Renaissance Hotel at 3801 Quebec in Denver, benefits youth involved in agriculture.... Read more..