Awesome news Vern! Thanks for letting us know. On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Vern Ceder <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just wanted to report that Steve Holden and the PSF have made good on > their pledge to support outreach to education in a very concrete and > generous way. The PSF has voted to give me a grant of $500 to help cover my > travel to the National Educational Computing Conference this June to give a > presentation on Python in the K12 curriculum (with Jeff Elkner, if the stars > align just right). > > I've been traveling to NECC to make this pitch to teachers from across the > country for the past 3 years, so getting a little outside funding is a > welcome relief to my headmaster and definite boon to my travel budget. > > My sincere thanks to Steve and the PSF for their support and especially to > those (like Kirby) who spoke up on my behalf. > > I think the message that Steve wants to get out is that the PSF is willing > to devote some resources to furthering the connection between Python and the > education world, but they need us to come forward with the projects. In > connection with our proposed PyCon presence I'd really like to start > building both a list of our various efforts to spread the word about Python > in education and a tradition of announcing all of those efforts, possibly on > this forum. > > Cheers, > Vern > -- > This time for sure! > -Bullwinkle J. Moose > ----------------------------- > Vern Ceder, Director of Technology > Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804 > [email protected]; 260-436-0746; FAX: 260-436-5137 > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig >
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