This program is for 40 K-12 Math, Science, or Computer Teachers. This year's GirlTECH participants also will attend the Mathematical and Computational Sciences Awareness Workshop (MCSA) held during the same 2 weeks. Through GirlTECH and MCSA, teachers

• Are provided with Rice University Internet accounts and software for Internet access.
• Receive intensive computer technology training from master teachers, especially in the use of the Internet.
• Explore diversity issues in the computational sciences through presentations and group discussions.
• Utilize online resources as a research, teaching, and collaboration tool.
• Create their own home pages, design and publish Web-based math and science lessons, and create home pages for their schools.
• Gain an awareness of the latest research in the computational sciences and hear from business and industry leaders' expectations of students for the 21st century;
• Explore representation issues and teacher practices that impact girls' interest in computers.
• Become members of an ongoing teachers' technology electronic support group that communicates throughout the year.
• Establish a student technology council on their campuses to ensure a transfer of knowledge from teacher to students.
• Make a one-year commitment to advanced training and to an integration of technology into their teaching practices.
  

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Daily Routine:

Class begins promptly at 8:30 a.m. Parking is a challenge. Please arrange your schedule accordingly. There will be a morning and afternoon break. Lunch will be from 11:30-12:30, including travel time. Some days will be split between Rice University and The Rice School (See Schedule Below). Lunch will be provided on the first and last days. A dutch-treat lunch is planned for the first Friday. Class is dismissed at 3:30 p.m. Dress is very informal. Please remember that we are guests in The Rice School or at the university. No food or drinks are allowed in the lab.