Throughout the summer and fall the 3E Institute delivered our Cyber Teaming Seminar for Life Science Business Professionals and Educators to 95 individuals, including high school teachers as well as active and displaced workers in the life science field. Our clients were residents of the 14 county region served by the Delaware Valley Innovation Network (DVIN), our funding partner in the initiative.

Although the project was officially completed as of December 31, 2009, we will continue to develop curriculum and instruction based on the Cyber Teaming Seminar. We would like to thank the following 3E seminar hosts who participated and were instrumental in making the seminars a success: Burlington County Community College, Community College of Philadelphia, Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center, Johnson & Johnson, Locus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Right Management and the University Science Center.

We are especially appreciative of the efforts of State Farm Insurance volunteers and Advisory Council members Bill Martin, Colleen Hamilton, Tony Girifalco and Marybeth DiVincenzo. Last, but not least, many thanks are due the Delaware Valley Innovation Network for funding and helping with plans and recruitment.

Stay tuned for the next part of 3E Cyber Teaming!

 From implementing project based learning in the classroom to developing collaborative partnerships with industry, basic skills of project management are essential for educators. Often the first introduction teachers have in developing project collaborations comes as a result of their enrollment in the 3E Institute's 21st Century Educator Externship course, where teachers are placed in job shadowing experiences with companies, non-profits and government agencies.  Opportunities to network and collaborate are a main ingredient of all 3E Institute courses and seminars. Our Entrepreneurial Educator and Emerging Science and Technologies courses include an introduction to project management as a technique to create superior plans, efficiencies in educational projects, and understanding of business operational processes.

Recently we have begun a dialog with the Project Management Institute Educational Foundation ( www.PMIEF.org ) to discover that we share an interest in providing real world professional development opportunities for educators at any phase of a project management cycle: initiating a new project based learning module; planning  actions ; delivery of a classroom project; monitoring and controlling the performance; or closure with reflections on lessons learned.