High School Teachers Workshop in Operations Research To be held at Pittsburgh INFORMS Meeting, Tuesday, November 7, 2006.
This is a great opportunity for high school and middle schools teachers to learn about Operations Research and to bring the techniques of OR directly into the classroom. The PAC has been sponsoring Teachers Workshops for many years at our national meetings, and as a result, countless educators have learned mathematical applications for the real world. Sign-up for the Workshop is only $25, and covers the whole day of activities, including lots of take-away materials as well as some really tasty meals and snacks. (Actually, we're even willing to give you a $25 scholarship to pay for the registration if that's a constraint. You may even be able to obtain in-service credit for attendance.)
INFORMS is also sponsoring a $4000 scholarship that will be awarded to a high school student who is likely to pursue an Operations Research-related major in college. Only teachers who attend our Workshop are eligible to nominate students. Here is a form explaining the rules: INFORMS Scholarship form
Some additional links: Ken Chelst had developed a wonderful series of teachers modules that show how to use Operations Research in the classroom. You can download most of them for free, and he's put many of them together in a really nice book that's very reasonably priced. We've had a lot of success in local high schools teaching this material. You can get more details at: High School Operations Research page.
INFORMS is our national professional organization. This link will give you all sorts of details about Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
And here is the link to the Pittsburgh Meeting itself. It's already shaping up as a fantastic event: Pittsburgh Meeting
If you have any questions at all, please send me (Dave Goldsman) an email at sman@gatech.edu.
