Steering Committee

Next Meeting: Full committee, Tuesday, May 27th, 3:30 - 5:00 at the CAPITAL Center, Suite 1065

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Location: The Capital Center, Suite 1065, 18640 NW Walker Rd, Beaverton OR 97006. Come to Entrance A off Walker Road, about a block from 185th. Driving Directions and Map.

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OPAS Vision for the year 2020 : “All Oregonians have the opportunity to explore, choose, and successfully pursue engineering or applied science as their field of study and career, thereby helping Oregon’s industries contribute to state economic needs, and innovate and prosper in the global economy.” adopted June 6, 2006

Agenda #34, Friday, June 20, 2008

Task force meeting, Monday, Feb. 18, 2008, 3:30 p.m.

re: Preparing written proposal to ETIC,

Bridge: 503.725.7202 and conference ID is 202082.

OPAS Presentation to ETIC, 2/8/08

(1) The ETIC industry members and some key academic members really like our approach.

(2) What they like about it most is its ability to "deliver" more well-prepared college freshmen that are inclined to choose engineering, computer science, or material science as their major.

(3) They want to see systemic change that will outlast OPAS as a committee structure.

(4) They want to us to deliver a balance of quantity, quality and diversity.

(5) While they didn't see our proposed "price tag" of $4.5 million over two year as being too high, their ability to help us get this level of funding will be limited by two things:
(a) how well we make our case going forward; and
(b) the amount of new tax revenues that become available to the Oregon Legislature in 2009.

Next steps:

Produce a written plan that give the specifics of our proposal based on the template.

Submission deadline: March 7th to ETIC industry members. They will read the proposal in advance of their meeting on March 14th..

Intermediate deadlines: Subproposals ready for review on Feb. 26th. Combined proposal ready for final editing by February 29th.

The proposal should

• address items (2), (3) and (4) above.
• describe of how we will stage the growth of our programs in terms of geography, types of schools, target student audiences, etc
• describe each of the six areas:
  • Extend national exemplar pre-engineering program (Knight, et al)
  • Expand access to computer science (Knight, et al)
  • Expand proven programs addressing under-represented (Davis-Lowe, et al)
  • Seed engineering challenge programs (Manny, et al)
  • Create summer internships (Cresswell, et al)
  • Statewide communications/marketing campaign (Schafer, Hardigan, ...)
• not be brand-specific. In other words, instead of saying it will allocate $x thousand to program A, $y thousand to program B, and $z thousand to program C, it should say it will allocate $x+y+z thousand to program(s) with the following characteristics: (a)...(b)...(c)..., possibly citing programs A, B, or C as having some of those characteristics.

Action Items from the most recent Steering Committee meeting:

Criteria for prioritizing possible legislative concepts

Possible ideas for legislative concepts

• Pre-service teacher preparation
• In-service professional development
• Integration of technology including computer science in science standards
  • Middle School
  • High School
• Endorsement area for computer science or ...
• Funding for technology courses, e.g. base x 1.3 for technology courses
• Incentives for future teachers, e.g. tuition forgiveness
• Creating bridge programs for under represented students to support the transition to college
• Tax credits to business for
  • establishing internships
  • connecting to classrooms
• Early-year salary supplement for teachers in shortage areas
• Gather data on level of preparation vs. success of students
  • High to college
  • Community college to university
• Make it easier for technology professionals to become teachers

ETIC/OPAS Pre-College RFP

Budget: $390K covering remainder of 2007-2009 Biennium

Eligibility

• Universities, colleges, school districts, etc.
• Non-profits organizations
• Others

Minimum proposal size: $25,000

Maximum proposal size: $100,000

Selection Criteria approved by ETIC, 7/20/07

• Alignment with ETIC mission and OPAS strategies.
• Breadth and depth of impact on target audiences.
• Sustainability, ability to grow the program cost-effectively, long-term impact.
• Organizational track record.
• Proven methodology.
• Quality of evaluation plan.
• Overall cost, efficient use of funds, and leveraging of other resources.

Steering Committee Members:   email to entire committee-

Advisors and Interested Observers (on the listserv to stay informed, but not attending meetings):

For questions or information regarding this webpage, please email Jo Oshiro or call (503) 725.2910