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Find up-to-date grants and other opportunties offered by
various agencies including government and or private corporations.
For recent iEARN news, opportunties and resources click HERE and for iEARN US News Archive click HERE.
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2008 YOUTH PRIZES FOR EXCELLENCE IN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Deadline: Thursday, June 12, 2008
Asia Society and The Goldman Sachs Foundation are pleased to announce the 2008 Youth Prizes for Excellence in International Education. Up to five winners will be selected to receive up to $10,000 each as well as an all-expense paid trip to New York City in November 2008 to receive their prize.
The 2008 competition asks students to create an in-depth written essay or multimedia feature examining a social or economic issue that has relevance to them in a global context. In the essay category, students will compare and contrast how the issue affects their community and a community abroad, as well as create recommendations for what lessons the two communities could learn from each other. In the multimedia category, students will explore how a global problem or challenge affects their life as an individual, as a member of their local community, and/or as a global citizen. More info...
AUGUST 2008
2008 SKOLL AWARDS FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Deadline: August 5, 2008 he Skoll Foundation is looking for social entrepreneurs whose work has the potential for large-scale positive change in the areas of tolerance and human rights, health, environmental sustainability, peace and security, institutional responsibility, and economic and social equity....Award winners are celebrated at the annual Skoll World Forum following their selection, at the end of March in Oxford, England. Read more and apply
OCTOBER 2008
TECHNOLOGY AND LEARNING'S DIGITAL PHOTO CONTEST FOR KIDS
Deadline: October 1, 2008
 Technology & Learning invites K-12 students to participate in the seventh annual digital photography contest. The competition, open to all K-12 students, challenges you to capture - and share - your unique vision of the world. If you have an artistic side, you also have the option to digitally enhance your photos with your favorite imaging software. For more information and to enter contest...
ONGOING (NO DEADLINE)
FULBRIGHT CENTER IN NETHERLANDS LOOKING FOR USA TEACHERS FOR EXCHANGE
The Fulbright Center in The Netherlands announces a great opportunity for high school teachers in the USA who want to set up a high school educational exchange with a Dutch high school. In The Netherlands there is a lot of interest in cooperation with an American high school, but most teachers find it difficult to find a partner school. The Fulbright Center wants to mediate in these contacts. Please send an e-mail if you want more information or if you want contact with a Dutch high school teacher. Contact Marlies Eijsink, Program Coordinator of the High School Cooperation Program.
LOWE'S INTERNATIONAL PAPER AND NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
LAUNCH OUTDOOR CLASSROOM GRANT PROGRAM
Up
to $20,000 will be awarded to schools or school districts for proposed
outdoor learning environments for K-12 students in the United
States.... Click HERE for more.
EDS TECHNOLOGY GRANT PROGRAM
 The EDS Technology Grant Program "helps teachers of children ages six through eighteen and school librarians purchase information technology products and services that will improve their students' ability to learn." For more information, click HERE.
GENERATION YES
 Generation
YES provides curriculum and online tools for schools to promote
student-centered, project-based technology projects that improve
technology use in their own schools. Generation YES students learn to
provide quality tech support, assist teachers with technology, and act
as peer mentors. Research-based and proven in over 1,000 schools,
Generation YES programs have a ten-year track record of empowering
students to improve their own schools through technology.
Please click here for more information or contact Sylvia Martinez at (888) 941-4369 x107.
NATIONAL INDIAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
First Annual NIEW President's Technology Award
Sponsored by
Educational Options, Inc. This award is designed to assist American
Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Teachers bring more
technology to their classrooms. NIEA will make two awards of $500.00 to
innovative projects that incorporate technology in the classroom. The
selected awardees will be invited to the 2006 NIEA Convention to
present onhow their projects were implemented and the resulting impact
on their students and school. Consider how technology could help
improve the future for your students and tell us how you would use the
$500.00 award to use or promote technology use in the classroom for a
chance to win! For more information on how to enter, please click here or call our office at (202) 544-7290.
OLYMPUS AND TOOL FACTORY CLASSROOM GRANTS
Olympus and Tool
Factory will award ten grants to educators whose classroom projects and
curriculum ideas illustrate "effective and creative use of digital
cameras and software resources." Grantees (five in winter 2005 and five
in spring 2006) will receive $3,550 in prizes, including three Olympus
D-545 4.0-megapixel digital cameras, Tool Factory project-building
software, thirty digital camera workbooks, and $500 cash.
Click HERE to complete an application
FULBRIGHT MEMORIAL FUND TEACHER PROGRAM (FMF)
FMF
is designed to increase understanding of Japan among K-12 educators in
the United States. To that end, at least two fellowships will be
awarded to K-12 teachers and administrators in each of the 50 states
and Washington, DC. Recipients of the FMF grant will travel to Japan to
participate in three-week group programs that feature an orientation to
Japan followed by visits to primary and secondary schools,
teacher-training colleges, cultural sites, and industrial facilities,
as well as meetings with teachers and students while living with
Japanese hosts. Additional information is available online, click HERE or via email at fmf@iie.org.
Read a story about one South Dakota teacher's experience as a Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Fellow at Edutopia online HERE
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