Southside Virginia Regional Technology Consortium
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The SVRTC held its 2013 Awards Banquet at Longwood University on Wednesday, March 27th. Applicants were solicited from the 25 school divisions in the SVRTC and considered by external evaluators for there merits. Awards were presented to members from each school division based on three categories.
Pictures from this years banquet are being placed in the web site Gallery.
 
Photo at right shows Mark Webster from Colonial Heights accepting the
SVRTC Technology Leadership Award presented by Senator Frank Ruff
Photo above shows
Annettte Bennett, Director of Curriculum and Instruction for Appomattox County Schools accepting
the SVRTC Division Leadership Award
presented to Appomattox County Schools by Dr. Pamela Moran
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SVRTC 2013 FIRST Robotics |
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The SVRTC is fortunate to have several school divisions that participate in annual FIRST Robotics programs. Some place year-long emphasis on the programs and some dive in to the 6-week builds every January. Team 1413 of Mecklenburg county participated in this year's FRC competition held at the Dorton Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina. Their robot, Skrappy, faired well during the 3 day event and finished 4th out of 55 teams attending the event. They went on to compete in quarter-final rounds.
FIRST Robotics is being used to stimlulate high school student's interest in STEM related fields and encompases areas of programming, electrical, electronics, pneumatics, vision, and mechanical. Working with mentors from a variety of dissiplines allows the students to learn from the people with lots of experience in leadership, engineering, and more. The athmosphere is family-like, with students working side-by-side with retired naval officers, university profesors, engineers and others.
For many years the SVRTC and Longwood's ITTIP have promoted STEM and application oriented learning using concepts like computational sciences and blended learning. Today, we're beginning to see the results of these ideas coming to life as teachers from different diciplines are beginning to collaborate in the development of curriculums. It's great to see math, science, and physics teachers interacting.
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SVRTC Co-Chair gets Ranked |
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Anita Harris, co-chair for the SVRTC has been ranked as one of the Top 20 Education Infulencers to Follow on Twitter for 2012. Anita, a.k.a. "itechspec", has been actively tweeting on education and technology for quite some time and her regular tweets have garnered a following. Here's an excerpt from Distance-Education.org...
Anita holds many certifications and is involved on several committees and organizations including...
- Instructional Technology Specialist, Sussex County Public Schools
- President, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Special Interest Group for Online Learning (SIGOL)
- Co-Chair, Southside Virginia Regional Technology Consortium (SVRTC)
- Co-Chair, Southside Community Partners (SCP) Advisory Council
- Certified Online Facilitator
- Certified Promethean Trainer
- NETS*T Certified
For more information about Anita and her postings please visit www.distance-education.org and https://twitter.com/itechspec. |
Mission Statement:
The Southside Virginia Regional Technology Consortium will assist members with coordinating the acquisition and effective integration of viable up-to-date and emerging technologies, valuable training for K-12 students, staff and other citizens in our communities to enhance learning at all levels and encourage economic development in Southside Virginia.
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