The 4-H Alumni newsletter is out, even if you were never part of 4-H it’s an excellent resource for learning about people who learn by doing, creating & making. 4-H Alumni Resources | 4-H.
4‑H is delivered by Cooperative Extension—a community of more than 100 public universities across the nation that provides experiences where young people learn by doing. Kids complete hands-on projects in areas like health, science, agriculture and citizenship, in a positive environment where they receive guidance from adult mentors and are encouraged to take on proactive leadership roles. Kids experience 4‑H in every county and parish in the country—through in-school and after-school programs, school and community clubs and 4‑H camps.
We’ve been asked from educators out there if we knew of grants from companies like Google for getting Adafruit products, so we asked Google! Here ya go!
You must be affiliated with an education nonprofit, such as a school district, research institution, PD organization, university foundation, or Office of Education. Previous applicants are welcome to apply. If previously funded, please specify how you’re adding a new dimension to a former project or scaling your efforts. Applications are due March 2, 2018 at 11:59 PM local time.
We are prioritizing PD programs that are:
- Localized: PD programs are custom-tailored to the participating educators and their school systems, if not designed in partnership with them
- Community-based: Multiple organizations in the local community contribute to the design, delivery, and ongoing support of PD programs (e.g. local industry/businesses, college CS and Education departments, etc.)
The funding criteria for 2018 are:
- Educator Audience: Pre-service or in-service teachers who reach students ages 11-18 (i.e. middle and high school)
- Content: PD content based in the needs of your Educator Audience, mapped to the CSTA CS Standards or your local/state CS standards, and relevant for an in-class implementation of CS (i.e. standalone CS course, or interdisciplinary application of CS)
- Partnerships: Applicant organization should list two current or anticipated partner organizations who will support the PD. Either the applicant or one of the partners should be a school district or Office of Education.
- Format and Schedule: PD delivered throughout the 2018-2019 academic year with a format and schedule based in meet the needs of your Educator Audience
- Support: Community of Practice (COP) that supports Ongoing Commitment and implementation of Content in the classroom throughout the 2018-2019 academic year by leveraging (or by creating a local chapter of) an established professional network (e.g. CSTA, CS for All Consortium)
- Ongoing Commitment: Evidence for sustained involvement in your local community to ensure CS educator Support beyond the 2018-2019 academic year (e.g. delivering advanced PD, growing to reach more teachers, securing new funding/resources, etc)
Budget restrictions:
- Organizations in the US may receive support of up to $35,000 (USD)
- At least 10% funding must be allocated to COP activities
- We strongly encourage that funding requested targets to impact at least one teacher per $500 requested (e.g. a request of $35,000 should reach at least 70 teachers)
- Google funding cannot be spent on hardware giveaways (e.g. robots, tablets); funding can be spent on hardware used at future/ongoing PD activities, in a lending library, etc.
@digikey 
@adafruit #adafruithttp://www.digikey.com/alltheiot it’s DEMO TIME! (video).
Full video, these are the demos!
Adafruit and Digi-Key have teamed up to present All the Internet of Things – a six-part video series covering everything you could ever want to know about the Internet of Things.
For our second video, we’ll go over the most popular protocols used in the IoT industry, as well as the upsides and downsides of each type of protocol to help you decide what you’ll use to connect your devices to the internet and exchange data.
A protocol can be thought of as the language each machine, or machines, use to talk to each other. Protocols don’t deal with the messy business of moving bits to and from, they are a higher level set of rules the machines use to talk to each other.
To get an even more in-depth look at the concepts outlined in this video, check out https://learn.adafruit.com/alltheiot-protocols and visit http://www.digikey.com/alltheiot for products, resources, and more!
