November/December, 2006 Want to build a lever and fling some stuff? How about hitting some targets or a box off of the top of a tower? Click here to give it a try, (http://www.forgefx.com/demos.htm) it is the second educational simulation 3D Catapult Designer.

September/October, 2006 Do you see 3rd-5th graders? Can you pass on a fun resource to another teacher that does? www.Edheads.org is a fun way to play with simple machines (Grades 3-5 Materials and Tools 1.3 Identify Identify and explain the difference between simple and complex machines) Click here for the link to the simple machines activity http://www.edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/.

Summer, 2006
Technology Education Archive- "Thanks for finding us and welcome to the Techedarchive...A site devoted to the FREE sharing of K-12 tech ed teacher resources." http://techedarchive.com/news.php. We have a permanent link on our classroom resource page, click here for the permanent link.

January, 2006
Inspiring a New Generation of Inventors
Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams is a national grants initiative of the Lemelson-MIT Program to foster inventiveness among high school students. InvenTeams composed of high school students, teachers and mentors are asked to collaboratively identify a problem that they want to solve, research the problem, and then develop a prototype invention as an in-class or extracurricular project. Grants of up to $10,000 support each team's efforts. InvenTeams are encouraged to work with community partners, specifically the potential beneficiaries of their invention.
InvenTeams was launched in 2002 as a pilot program that awarded grants to three New England high school teams for the 2002-03 academic year. It has expanded each year since its inception, and in the fall of 2005, awarded up to 18 InvenTeams grants.
In the future the link will be on our resources page under contests. Click here to go to the link on the resources page under the contest heading.