Calling for Young Scientists to Compete in the Google Science Fair 2011
January 20th, 2011
Google has has partnered with CERN, LEGO, National Geographic and Scientific American to launch the 2011 Google Science Fair! This is a unique opportunity for young scientists around the world to compete and demonstrate their talent on a global stage.
The competition is open to students ages 13-18 and they have until April 4, 2011 to submit their most creative science project that is relevant to the world today. Please review Official Entry Guidelines to determine if your students are eligible for this competition. Entrants can submit projects in any one of the following categories:
- Computer Science & Math
- Earth & Environmental Sciences
- Behavioral & Social Sciences
- Flora & Fauna
- Energy & Space
- Inventions & Innovation
- Physics
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Food Science
- Electricity & Electronics
A panel of judges will select the finalists who will be flown to Google Headquarters in California for the celebratory Science Fair event in July of 2011.
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Helping Seniors Return Home After a Hospital Stay
January 17th, 2011
Every year, over 13 million older adults in the United States make the difficult transition back home after a hospital stay. The move requires coordinated support from both the hospital and the community.
“Without the right assistance, older adults are at risk for re-hospitalization and for poor health outcomes.” says Robyn Golden, director of older adult programs at Rush.
Concern about how seniors fare when they return home was the impetus for a remarkable program at Rush, called the enhanced discharge planning program.
Under this program, social workers follow up with at-risk older adults by telephone to conduct a post-discharge assessment and coordinate necessary short-term care. A study of the program found that issues requiring attention occurred in 83 percent of the cases. For 74 percent of these individuals, the problems did not emerge until after hospital discharge.
Tags: Hospital Stay, Stay
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Characteristics of dynamic IP routing protocols
January 17th, 2011
Below are some important characteristics of various Dynamic Routing Protocols that are used in Cisco IOS routers.
RIPv2
* Distance Vector Protocol. * Suitable for small to medium networks. * Average convergence speed. * Supports VLSM. * Supports CIDR. * Standardized protocols (supports multi-vendor networks.) * Multicast address for updates: 224.0.0.9 * Administrative distance: 120. * Difficulty to Administer: Low
EIGRP
* Advanced distance vector protocol. * Suitable for routing in large networks. * Very high speed of convergence. * Supports VLSM. * Supports CIDR. * Cisco proprietary. * Multicast address for updates: 224.0.0.10 * Administrative Distance: internal 90, external 170. * Difficulty to Administer: Medium
OSPFv2
* Link state protocol. * Suitable for routing in large networks. * High convergence speed. * Supports VLSM. * Supports CIDR. * Standardized (supports multi-vendor networks.) * Multicast address for updates: 224.0.0.5 / 224.0.0.6 * Administrative distance: 110.
Tags: Protocols, Routing Protocols
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January 2011 Grad Newsletter
January 16th, 2011
Attention Grade 12 students and parents. The grad committee has released its January newsletter. An important point to note is the date for photo retakes and that students who missed the initial photo dates must pay their sitting fee of $25.00 by January 15th.
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New Members of State Board Announced
January 16th, 2011
This morning Governor John Kasich announced five appointments to the Ohio State Board of Education and at as anticipated, the appointees joined their colleagues at 3 PM at the Ohio School for the Deaf for the monthly State Board meeting.
New appointees are: C. Todd Jones, of New Albany, Tess Elshoff, of New Knoxville; Joseph Farmer, of Baltimore; Thomas Gunlock, of Centerville; and Dennis Shelton, of Delaware.
After getting acquainted, all nineteen board members participated in a forum where candidates for president and vice president of the board shared their qualifications and answered questions. Candidates for president are Debe Terhar and Rob Hovis. Vice Presidential candidates are Dennis Reardon and Thomas Gunlock.
Elections for board leadership will take place tomorrow morning.
Also in the news today was board member Martha Harris. Appointed by Ted Strickland, Ms. Harris joined the board in 2009. Unfortunately, it appears that not only was Ms. Harris never confirmed by the Ohio Senate, but her appointment paperwork was never delivered to the Senate at all.
Sounds familiar. Read more…
Tags: Announced, State Board
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The $900,000 Man
January 12th, 2011
Ohio legislators don’t need to look to New Jersey Governor Christie to get excited about eliminating teacher tenure. A case right here in Ohio where a district incurred legal fees topping $900,000 to terminate a tenured teacher has them fired up.
A report Thursday, about the more than $900,000 in costs one Ohio school district paid to defend its firing of a tenured teacher who taught creationism, may be the opening some state lawmakers have been looking for to revisit – maybe even terminate – a 1941 law that created how teacher tenure works in the Buckeye State.
The case of John Freshwater, an eighth-grade science teacher in Mount Vernon, a small city about 40 miles northeast of the capital city Columbus, has ignited reaction from Republican members of the Ohio House and Senate, who may seize on it as the call to arms to either reform or revoke the 70-year-old law that established the due process procedure to take on a teachers and their union.
“I’m sure we will address this issue this term,” Rep. Gerald L.
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Shep Staff in China
January 11th, 2011
From Nov. 26th to Dec.5th our Principal Mr. Bradley and Chinese Teacher Ms. Li participated in an official school visit to China organized by the Confucius Institute of Edmonton. The Edmonton delegation visited our twin schools in Shandong Province and met with the deputy minister of Education and other officials of the Province. Mr. Bradley and Ms. Li visited the Shandong Experimental School in the city of Ji Nan, the twin school to Ross Sheppard. Shandong Experimental School is the best high school in the province. It has 5,800 students and a teaching staff of over 500. The school has two campuses, with one campus in the city center and one boarding campus outside the city. Mr. Bradley and Ms. Li had the opportunity to visit the two campuses and talked to students in the school.
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