Microsoft Grant - I am unlurking!

[Beth Hale <bethhale90@YAHOO.COM>]

You may have all seen this by now. I am new at this - in my first
semester at Univ. of South Carolina CLIS program.

Subject:      Microsoft Invites Middle- and High-School Teachers To
Apply for 2000 Curriculum Grant Program
From:         "BigR (News)" <rweaver74@hotmail.com>
Date:         1999/08/26
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Thursday August 26, 12:40 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Microsoft Corp.
Microsoft Invites Middle- and High-School Teachers To Apply for 2000
Curriculum Grant Program
Technology Grant Program Puts State-of-the-Art Software in Teachers'
Hands,
Provides Educators Nationwide With Database of Resources and Lesson
Plans
REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT -
news) invites technology teachers in high schools, middle schools and
secondary vocational and technical schools to apply for the Microsoft®
2000
Curriculum Grant Program as part of its commitment to making the latest
technology tools accessible to educators and students. Now in its third
year, the Curriculum Grant Program provides software that enables
teachers
to create leading-edge curriculum for computer science, programming,
Web
development and information systems courses that challenge students and
help
prepare them for college or the work force with the information
technology
skills and knowledge that are in the greatest demand.

The two-year competitive grants provide teachers with licenses for
state-
of-the art Visual Development tools and Microsoft operating systems in
return for sharing classroom lesson plans, resources and activities
with
other educators via the MainFunction Web site
(http://www.mainfunction.com/). The license grants will be awarded for
the
latest technology tools currently used in the work force, such as the
Visual
Basic®, Visual C++® and Visual J++® development systems, Office 2000
Developer Edition and the Visual InterDev® Web development system.
License
grants for the Windows® 98 or Windows NT® Workstation operating systems
also
will be awarded if needed.


    Who:   Full-time faculty from any accredited institution in any
department
           responsible for teaching courses involving systems analysis,
           programming, application development, Web development or the
use
of
           programming for problem-solving activities are encouraged to
apply.
           Eligible departments include, but are not limited to,
computer
           science, business information technologies and mathematics.
Only
           one application will be accepted per department, but
multiple
           applications per school are permitted.

    When:  The entry period is Nov. 1 through Dec. 30, 1999.

    How:   Complete grant information, applications and instructional
           resources from past grant recipients are available at the
           MainFunction Web site. Questions about the application
process
can
           be sent to editor@mainfunction.com.


Established in 1998, the Microsoft Curriculum Grant Program has awarded
more
than $2 million in licenses for Microsoft Development Tools and
operating
systems to more than 75 schools for effective integration of new
technology
into existing curricula. Microsoft believes the most important use of
technology is to improve education. This belief is demonstrated through
the
company's efforts to help build a global Connected Learning Community,
in
which all students, educators and parents have access to technology and
the
tools and skills to support learning today and for a lifetime.

NOTE: Microsoft, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual J++, Visual InterDev,
Windows and Windows NT are either registered trademarks or trademarks
of
Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. Other
product
and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

SOURCE: Microsoft Corp.



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