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Annual Fund Student Callers Recognized for Fundraising Efforts

for Texas Tech University System

Student callers who have raised more than $400,000 for academic programs at Texas Tech were recently rewarded by Chancellor Kent Hance with tickets to the Red Raider men's basketball game on Jan. 16.

Talkmitt Receives 2007 Skoog Cup

for Texas Tech University

Susan Talkmitt, the associate director of curriculum and instruction for the T-STEM Center was named the 2007 recipient of the Skoog Cup at the Conference for the Association of Science Teachers.

Halliburton Awards Grant to T-STEM Center

for Texas Tech University

Recognizing a university-level commitment to K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, Halliburton has awarded the Texas Tech University T-STEM Center $30,000 in foundation funding to continue the center's outreach efforts.

Fontenot Named Service-Learning Mentor

for Texas Tech University

Dean Fontenot, Ph.D., a director of the T-STEM Center, has been selected as a Service-Learning Faculty Fellows Mentor for the 2007-2008 academic year by the Teaching, Learning and Technology Center at Texas Tech University.

Lubbock Students Take Top Honors in State Engineering Contest

for Texas Tech University

Students from Dunbar Middle School have received state-wide recognition for their engineering ideas from the Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering (TAME).

T-STEM Center Receives State Engineering and Science Recruitment Grant

for Texas Tech University

The Texas Tech University T-STEM Center has received $29,700 in funding from the Texas Education Agency to develop curriculum materials, teacher training opportunities and education support resources to increase recruitment of minority populations.

Dunbar Middle School Named NASA Explorer School

for Texas Tech University

Teachers and administrators at Dunbar Middle School are seeing stars, or to be more specific, self-luminous celestial bodies made of gas and held together by their own gravity.

“Design Squad” Makes Its West Texas Television Premier

for Texas Tech University

More than 600 elementary and middle school students from across West Texas joined Texas Tech engineering students at the Science Spectrum Feb. 21 for the local premier of "Design Squad"—a new engineering reality TV show on PBS.

Texas Tech Announces New T-STEM Center

for Texas Tech University

Texas Tech University, using a $1 million dollar grant, will create one of five regional T-STEM Centers to enhance science, technology, engineering and mathematics teaching as part of a state-wide effort to bridge the gap between high school and higher edu

Chandler Gives Keynote Address at Tripoli Rocketry Association Banquet

for Texas Tech University

John Chandler, Ph.D., a director of the Center for Engineering Outreach, was featured as a guest speaker for the Tripoli Rocketry Association's annual meeting.

Texas Space Grant Consortium Funds Center for Engineering Outreach Proposal

for Texas Tech University

Highlighting a long-standing commitment to aero-science education, the Texas Space Grant consortium has awarded the Center for Engineering Outreach $15,000 to continue its development of space related curriculum for K-12 education.

Pre-college Engineering Academy Teacher receives Presidential Award

for Texas Tech University

President George W. Bush honored science teacher Nancy Schunke, from Dunbar Middle School in Lubbock, as a recipient of the 2005 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the nation’s highest honor for science and math teacher

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Center Receives Funding from Halliburton

for Texas Tech University

Recognizing a continued commitment to K-12 engineering outreach, Halliburton has awarded the Center for Engineering Outreach $25,000 in foundation funding to continue the center's outreach efforts.

Fontenot Named to NASA Committee

for Texas Tech University

Dean Fontenot, Ph.D., a director of the Center for Engineering Outreach, has been named to the steering committee for the Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) program.

2006 Teacher Training Workshops Announced

for Texas Tech University

Deciding how to announce our teacher training workshops to the whole state of Texas was a daunting challenge. However, choosing the largest science conference in the country seemed like a good place to start.

Pre-college Engineering Academy Teacher Named Presidential Award Finalist

for Texas Tech University

Nancy Owens Schunke, a science and engineering instructor at Dunbar Middle School, has been named a national finalist for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching.

Dunbar Academy Students Win State Essay & Poster Contest

for Texas Tech University

Two students from the Dunbar Middle School have received state-wide recognition for their engineering ideas from the Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering (TAME).

Middle School Students Blaze Trails to Engineering

for Texas Tech University

In West Texas, cattle trailers are as common as cotton fields. But pack that same trailer full of engineering experiments and the results are surprisingly uncommon.

Engineers in Training Unveil Inventions

for Texas Tech University

Lubbock's newest crop of engineers-in-training got a chance to showcase their skills during 'Parent Day' of Engineering Camp, a program hosted by the Center for Engineering Outreach at Texas Tech University.