AGRISCIENCE AND NATURAL RESOURCES / CLUSTER ADVISORY MEETING

AGRISCIENCE AND NATURAL RESOURCES CLUSTER ADVISORY MEETING
THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 2005 8:00am

AGENDA

Continental Breakfast

1.0 Role of Advisory Committees and Members

2.0 Current Program

2.1 Projects2.2 Student FFA participation

2.3 Job Shadowing and academic learning

2.4 Facility

3.0 Where can we go from here?

3.1 What should we be doing that we are not?

3.2 What do we need in order to do it?

3.3 What opportunities do we have to work with?

4.0 Involvement of Community

4.1 How can we get the community to see what we do?

4.2 How can we let parents know what is going on and involve them?

4.3 How do we help students get ahead?

5.0 Action Steps

5.1 Define what we do next

5.2 Responsible parties

5.3 Reporting Back

6.0 Adjournment

Advisory Committee Meetings / Tool Kit Parameters

As we discussed in our staff meeting on Thursday, be sure to call yourAdvisory Committee Chairperson to ask which date during the week ofJanuary 10th works best (not Wednesday, January 12).

The following is a summary of what we learned from our activity using the AdvisoryCommittee Tool Kit.

* Former students on the advisory council are encouraged.
* 4-6 is the minimum for business and industry partners.
* Representatives from colleges with articulation agreements are welcome.* Instructors have the primary responsibility for "setting it all up."
* A sample agenda was provided.
* The chain of command has not changed.
* The January meeting is a local (building) Advisory Committee meeting.
* Instructors will call the Advisory Committee Chairperson to ask about the best time and date.
* Instructors will provide Chuck with the agenda and Chuck will mail it with the invitations.
* There is money for food (e.g. continental breakfast, light lunch, etc.).
* Who decides "if" and "how" input is used? All information will be shared with the countywide cluster and provided to CFE administration.
* Advisory Committee meetings will be held by cluster with breakout sessions as needed.
* Instructors and chairpersons will provide administration feedback back to Advisory Committee members.
* The purpose of the Advisory Committee is to provide continuous improvement for CTE programs.
* We have a lot of control over the January meeting.* We must protect student confidentiality as defined by FERPA (see Student/Parent Handbook page 27).
* Instructors have the primary responsibility for identifying business and industry members.


Meeting / OSTC / NW / Friday, September 17, 2004 10:30AM
Jim Ross
John Iras
Anna Smith / Palace Stone
Paul Briercheck

AGENDA

Introductions

*Need Letter of Understanding from Oakland Schools
*Budgetary Considerations Discussion / Leverage Possibilities

McMath-Hulbert Solar Observatory

*National Geographic Article / Golden Age of Solar Astronomy
*Digital Observatory
*Faulkes Telescope Project
*Digital Solar Observation
*Telescope in a Bucket
*Thomas Edison Project / Port Huron

Agri-Science Off-site Program Development

Palace Stone
Hawk Woods Nature Center
Unisolar (Altenative Energy)
Teachers Discovery
Solar Farms / David Oliver / Palace Stone

MichBio formalizes student chapters (Nancy White)
*OSTC / NE Program Development Collaboration
*Brandon Elementary School / Mentoring Program

U.S FIRST Robotic's Program / OSMTech
*Submersible Graphics / U.S. Army Corps of EngineersProject
http://webcam.crrel.usace.army.mil/soo/vid2/camera2.mpg

SOL (Society for Organizational Learning) Confernece (Peter Senge)
October 10-14, 2004
Student Participation in SEED Program

*Oakland Schools / Pontiac Schools / Oakland Schools Technology Center / NW / Agri-Science (Water Quality Testing)

NSF Grant Initiative / Informal Science Centers

FFA / Virtural FFA from OSTC/NW 2005

Action Items
Letter of Understanding
Budget Outline
Create Youth Advisory Council (MHO CFG Youth Advisory Council
*Blog-site Development
SAT Photo's of Palace Stone, Hawk Woods, Unisolar, Teachers Discovery (Oakland County)
*Agri-Science Chair / OSTC/NW / Set Meeting

ECD system energizes new California school: The first of three new California schools using solar energy to power its classrooms is being dedicated today in the city of Brentwood, in Contra Costa County. United Solar Ovonic L.L.C., a subsidiary of Rochester Hills-based Energy Conversion Devices Inc. (Nasdaq: ENER) provided building integrated photovoltaic roofing for the project. The 33-kilowatt system will put power into the grid for the district's new Pioneer Elementary School. The photovoltaic laminates are applied directly to the school's stainless steel flat panel roofing. Pam Currier, business manager for the district, said the decision to use solar power would pay for itself, and made sense in the face of state educational spending cuts. The district also received a $125,000 rebate from Pacific Gas and Electric for the system. A second Uni-Solar system will be installed at the Grant Avenue Elementary School now under construction in the district. A third system for a new 80-kW middle school is under bid. More at www.uni-solar.com.

MichBio formalizes student chapters: MichBio, the state's life sciences industry association, Wednesday announced that it plans to develop student chapters at nine colleges and universities in Michigan. The schools involved are Central Michigan University, Eastern Michigan University, Grand Valley State University, Kalamazoo College, Michigan State University, Oakland University, the University of Michigan, Wayne State University and Western Michigan University. The student chapters are intended to help students learn about job opportunities in Michigan's life sciences industry, through programs like career days, internship programs and industry guest lectures. MichBio also announced that its BioConnections internship program placed 27 paid interns this summer. For the first time, MichBio expanded the BioConnections program outside the Washtenaw county area, placing students in Detroit, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids and Lansing. Internship positions ranged from organic chemistry interns to artificial lung projects to entrepreneurial MBA positions. BioConnections is funded by a three-year, $1.1 million grant from the Michigan Economic Development Corp. It aims to place students in Michigan's life sciences industry and keep them in Michigan after graduation. The intern program is available year-around to all life science companies in Michigan. MichBio now has more than 160 members. More at www.michbio.org.