Find out more information about the BISD Summer Technology camps for 2013. All camps run from June 10-14, 2013 at Burleson High School. Each camp costs $80 and runs from 8:30am-12:00pm. Click the image above, or the link below for more information about our camps, camp registration, and our online payment link! Click Here to visit our camp website!
High school seniors from across the country will have a chance to vie for scholarship money in the Investing in Our Future competition from eSchoolView. Awards will be given in two categories, Web Design and Web Technology, for a total of eight scholarships with the following breakdown: One – $5,000, Two – $2,500 and Five –$1,000. The Web Design Contest is for high school seniors interested in pursuing graphic design, webdesign or other arts. Students entering the design contest are required to develop a home page and one interior page for a website.The site should be related to a school class or club and should reflect a…
C-SPAN’s StudentCam is an annual national video documentary competition that encourages students to think seriously about issues that affect their communities and the nation. Students are asked to create a short(five- to eight-minute) video documentary on a topic related to the theme “Message to the President”: What’s the most important issue the president should consider in 2013? The competition is open to all students in grades 6–12. Students in grades 6–8 compete in the Middle School category; students in grades 9–12, in the High School category. Students may compete individually or in teams of either two or three members. Seventy-five student prizes…
The US Army’s eCYBERMISSION is a free,web-based Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)competition in which students in grades 6–9 compete against other students in their grades for state, regional and national awards.Teams consisting of three to four students and a team advisor work to solve problems in their community utilizing the scientific method,scientific inquiry or engineering design process. Up to $24,000 in USEE Savings Bonds will be awarded in the competition. At the state level, first-place winners will each receive $1,000 in US EE Savings Bonds; at the regional level, $2,000 in US EE Savings Bonds; and at the national level, $5,000 in US…
The Kennedy–Lugar Youth Exchange and Study(YES) Abroad Program is offering scholarships to American high school students to spend the 2013–2014 academic year in countries that may include Bosnia & Herzegovina, Egypt(tentative), Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mali (tentative),Morocco, Oman, South Africa, Thailand and Turkey. This post–9/11 program focuses on increasing understanding between people in the United States and countries with significant Muslim populations. YES Abroad students serve as “youth ambassadors” of the United States, promoting mutual understanding by forming lasting relationships with their host families and communities. Participants live with a host family, attend a local high school, acquire leadership skills and engage in…
The Year in Rap: 2011 from Flocabulary on Vimeo. In partnership with Flocabulary,creators of the Weekin Rap and the Yearin Rap, TheNew York Times LearningNetwork is running acontest inviting students aged 13–25 to submit their own 2012 Yearin Rap lyrics. Students should choose at least four important NewYork Times storiesfrom one of these news categories: World, US, Business, Technology,Science, Health, Sports, Arts, Fashion, Obituaries. In writing theirraps, students can focus on a smaller topic found within a section inThe Timesrather than covering the full range of news from a section. Forexample, they can write a rap based on just the 2012 presidentialelection or Hurricane Sandy rather than on a range of national newsthis…
Meta!Blast is a real-time 3-D action-adventure video game, aimed at high school and undergraduate student audiences. The game is meant to provide an entertaining, engaging experience while simultaneously educating players about cell biology. By playing Meta!Blast, students will be introduced to the concepts of respiration, photosynthesis and the functions of various organelles in a manner complementary to the textbook. Students will also be introduced to how the living cell actually appears through a biologically accurate virtual replica of a cell environment. They will be presented with a series of puzzles and goals, such as having to create oxygen, which will require them to…
Foldit is an interactive computer game enabling students to contribute to important scientific research. In the Foldit game, players are presented with puzzles that start with a snaking arrangement of amino acids, identical to the sequence of an actual protein. Players then have to fold that sequence into a complex 3-D structure that fits the laws of chemistry. The closer players get to folding a realistic looking molecule, the higher they score, and the more researchers learn about how proteins loop and scrunch inside living cells. Click Here to Visit Website This information is provided as a courtesy for BISD teachers and inclusion here…
NASA @ Home and City is a virtual tour of NASA-related science that is everywhere we look. Students visiting NASA @ Home and City can rotate buildings and take a look inside to discover everyday items, the development of which has been influenced by space exploration. Each item within a building has a narrated explanation of how that item was influenced by NASA technology. For example, students can take a look inside the bathroom of a house to learn how technology used at NASA has had an impact on the development of cosmetics and toothpaste. Click Here to Visit Website This information…
The Historypin Android app reveals photos near your current location and allows you to view them layered over the modern scene in front of you. You can also explore collections of some of the best old photos from around the world, wherever you are. You can add your own piece of history and pin it to the map too by using your phone to digitize an old photo, capture a modern moment of historic importance or take a modern replica of a photo on the app. Historypin was created by the not-for-profit company We Are What We Do, in partnership with Google. The app…
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