[Edu-sig] PSF Grant

[Andre Roberge]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Vern Ceder <vceder at canterburyschool.org>wrote:

> 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).
>

Great!   Thanks Steve (if you're reading!)


>
> 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.
>

Yes, thanks Kirby and congratulations on being elected a member of the PSF.

>
> 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.
>

Please, let us know how it goes at the NECC.

André

>
> Cheers,
> Vern
> --
> This time for sure!
>   -Bullwinkle J. Moose
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