[Edu-sig] PSF Grant

[Vern Ceder]

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to report that Steve Holden and the PSF have made good on 
their pledge to support outreach to education in a very concrete and 
generous way. The PSF has voted to give me a grant of $500 to help cover 
my travel to the National Educational Computing Conference this June to 
give a presentation on Python in the K12 curriculum (with Jeff Elkner, 
if the stars align just right).

I've been traveling to NECC to make this pitch to teachers from across 
the country for the past 3 years, so getting a little outside funding is 
a welcome relief to my headmaster and definite boon to my travel budget.

My sincere thanks to Steve and the PSF for their support and especially 
to those (like Kirby) who spoke up on my behalf.

I think the message that Steve wants to get out is that the PSF is 
willing to devote some resources to furthering the connection between 
Python and the education world, but they need us to come forward with 
the projects. In connection with our proposed PyCon presence I'd really 
like to start building both a list of our various efforts to spread the 
word about Python in education and a tradition of announcing all of 
those efforts, possibly on this forum.

Cheers,
Vern
-- 
This time for sure!
    -Bullwinkle J. Moose
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Vern Ceder, Director of Technology
Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804
vceder at canterburyschool.org; 260-436-0746; FAX: 260-436-5137