OPAS In-Class

Oregon Pre-engineering &
Applied Sciences Initiative

Contact:

Jo Oshiro
jo_oshiro@ous.edu
503.725.2910

OPAS 2009-2011

In-Class Committee

Chair: Bruce Schafer

Oversee Investments within the OPAS Bright Future In-Class Segment
- Extend national exemplar pre-engineering program Project Lead the Way (PLTW) to make Introduction to Engineering Design (IED) available in more high schools and introduce Gateway to Technology (GTT) at middle schools.
- Expand access to computer science by providing CMU's CS4HS program to high school teachers and piloting a new discrete math curriculum at Oregon high schools.
Plan for Future Biennia

Reference Documents & links

Meetings

In-Class #9	March 19 , 2010
3:30-3:35	1 Meet and greet
3:35-4:00	2 Oversight of the Current Investment Grants Cross-reference (includes all 2009-2011 grant awards to date) Computer Science Status of ATE grant proposal development Brainstorm: Does this committee need to take an active role in bringing Exploring CS to Oregon? PLTW Is enhancing quarterly report template for K12 RFP worth considering? What STI quality-of-experience data is available to us? Should we do online survey of STI participants or K12 grantees? Site visits? Visit STI?
4:00-4:30	3 Planning for 2011-2013 Biennium Reference: Page 4 and pages 7 to 16 of proposal to ETIC Next Steps Developing sub-plan for possible inclusion in ETIC "ask" for 2011 Legislature Developing sub-plan for inclusion in proposals to other funding sources
4:30-4:50	4 Other funding sources DARPA RFP I3 RFP Local education agencies (LEA) and non-profits working with LEAs eligible Must have already shown increasing success for all students closing achievement gaps "Validation", "Scaling Up" or "Development" grants Would take some work to figure out if/how we could fit in this at this level of funding Race to the Top (RttT Teacher Incentive Fund Engineering Education for Innovation Act
4:50-5:00	5 Open discussion and scheduling next meeting -- Friday April 16, 3:30 - 5:00?