Hello everyone – and welcome back to another school year!! To start this year off right, be sure to attend the MTEEA Fall Conference held annually in St. Cloud on the last full weekend of September. This year’s dates are Friday, September 25th and Saturday the 26

th.

Each fall conference offers something new, and this year you will notice that we are moving our Saturday morning sessions to the facilities at St. Cloud State University. MTEEA has always had a great relationship with SCSU, and that partnership is allow-ing us to share their Tech Ed and Engineering labs for part of our conference. We will now be able to offer sessions on Saturday morning with real equipment and hands-on opportunities. In addition it will help us keep the conference costs from rising. As always, there will be tours, two days of special interest sessions, the best vendor display in the state, an Awards Banquet that recognizes the top Technology and Engi-neering teachers in MN, and of course, networking with teachers from around the state. We hope to see you there!!

Questions? Call Mike Lindstrom, Fall Conference Program Chair at 612-209-1739.

Fall 2015

Volume 1, Issue 3 MTEEA Journal

Conference Invite 1

Vendor Show 2

Industry Tours 3

Friday Schedule 4

Saturday Schedule 5

ITEEA 6

The “Back Page” 7

In this Issue:

MTEEA Conference at a glance:

The 2016 conference theme: “One Small Step for a School; One Giant Step for a Student!”

Friday and Saturday, September 25 and 26

20 Different Breakout Sessions over Friday and Saturday

Vendor Display Friday 10:00 to 3:00

Business tours:

Tour 1 – Geringhoff Manufacturing (producers of combine heads)

Tour 2 – National Guard Helicopter Division

MTEEA Membership meeting, Dinner and Awards Banquet on Friday Evening

Various Door prizes given away all day Friday at the vendor show and Membership meeting

and at the Saturday breakfast meeting

Look at additional information here: http://mteea.net/index.php/fall-conference

Register online: You can complete your conference registration online, select your method

of payment, cash, check or School PO (please have PO number when registering) or

Pay online: Use PayPal or credit card to pay your registration online. If additional meal

tickets are needed these can be paid for at registration.

The 37th Annual MTEEA Fall Conference

Visit us on the web: www.mteea.net

Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/MNteched

Fall Conference Edition

Vendor Show

The MTEEA Fall conference is a place to connect with those who bring you the best and new-

est in Technology and engineering Educational Products. Look at new books, connect with

those companies that you order materials from, see what is new in the supply area. This is

the biggest vendor show in Minnesota!

Partial list of Vendors:

Synergic Engineering Corp. Tierney Broothers inc Haldeman-Homme

Dunwoody LAB Midwest Globe University

ACME Electric Motors Goodheart-Wilcox Alexandria Technical College

Youngblood Lumber FIRST Technologies Moss Enterprises

There are featured vendors throughout the day. After which there is a prize drawing from

that vendor. Make sure you Visit the Vendor Show!!

New this year:

Play “Vendor Bingo”

* Pick up a card at the Con-

ference registration booth.

* Visit each of the vendors

listed on the card, have them

“sign off” that you visited

with them.

* When you have all of the

squares signed, turn in the

card at the Conference Regis-

tration table.

* All completed cards will be

entered into a drawing for a

special vendor prize to be

given away at the MTEEA Fall

Business meeting.

2014 Vendor show!

Industry tours are

Free, transportation is

provided from the

conference site.

Participation is lim-

ited. It is best to pre

register either online

or by mail to ensure a

spot on the tours.

Vendor Presentations

Make sure you check

out the Vendor

Presentations in the

St. Benedicts room.

Stratasys and Halde-

man Homme held a

3D printing workshop

to roll out a new 3D

Printing Curriculum.

This is one of the fast-

er growing job areas

in industry. They are

working on develop-

ing a certification for

students completing

the training.

These sessions are

throughout the day

on Friday!

Industry Tours

A highlight of the MTEEA Fall conference are the Friday morning industry tours! Each year, two local industries are contacted to provide tours of their facilities, and interact with the educators. This year is no exception. The following companies are opening their doors to a limited number of tour participants on Friday morning: Geringhoff Manufacturing ~ 8:30 - 10:30 AM National Guard Helicopter Division ~ 9:30 - 11:30 AM Geringhoff Manufacturing:

Geringhoff has been manufacturing the industry's leading harvest equipment since 1880.

We strive to create and deliver the ultimate harvest experience, and make harvesting easi-

er.

Reliability, performance, and industry leading quality. That is what we stand behind, and as

a result the top corn growers in North America are choosing to stand with us. Combines

and farming practices are becoming bigger and more elaborate and farmers are demanding

the correct equipment to match their operations.

We are proud to offer the finest corn harvesting headers in the industry; sleek powerful ma-

chines unsurpassed by anything else in the industry. In September 2012, we announced

the location of our brand new American Manufacturing facility in St. Cloud MN.

Geringhoff

3405 Energy Drive

St. Cloud, MN

320-252-4633 info@geringhoff.com

National Guard Helicopter Division:

Saint Cloud-based Detachment 1, C Co., 1-171 GSAB is comprised of three detach-ments; Co C, Det 1; Co D, Det 3 and Co E, Det 3. They are headquartered at the Train-ing and Community Center in St. Cloud and work at the Army Aviation Support Facility in the Saint Cloud regional airport where they provide medical evacuation support.

Sept. 24, Thursday

7:00 – 9:00 PM MTEEA Stra-tegic Council Meeting; Vi-kings Room

Friday, September 25

Tours:

8:30 – 10:30 Tour 1 – Geringhoff Manufacturing (producers of combine heads)

9:30 – 11:30 Tour 2 – Na-tional Guard Helicopter Division

(shuttle vans provided from Holiday Inn)

3:30-8:30 Cash bar in Pool Area

5:10 - 6:15 Pool Area –

Affiliate President’s Meeting Time (look for table sign in pool area)…

Speed Networking…

Post Something to Share Electronically: Mark Gable will facilitate if needed!!

Friday Evening Banquet Agenda:

Dinner – 6:15 in Heritage Room (6:25 dinner served)

7:00 Keynote by Member-ship speakers – Each year a question will be posed to the membership and we will pick a member-speaker: Jay Nix MnACTE President: What can MnACTE do for you??

7:40 ITEEA Invitation to ITEEA National Harbor 2016

- Doorprizes -

7:50 MTEEA Awards Presentation

“One Small Step for a School; One Giant Step for a Student!”

Conference Schedule River Bats Twins Vikings

Vendor Dis-play:

10:00 – 3:00

St. Benedict’s

Vendor Presentations:

11:00

Sawstop Demo Jobsite

Saw

(ACME Tools)

12:00

(Lunch)

1:00

The “E” in STEM

(Whitebox Learning)

2:00

Rapid Manu-facturing for under $10K!

(Haldeman-Homme)

3:00

FabLabs/STEM Labs

What is need-ed to get started?

(Haldeman-Homme)

8:00 -8:25

Pool Area: John Holmen, MTEEA President is available for ques-tions

8:30 –11:00

Build an Engineering Notebook to Guide Stu-

dents Through your Tech Ed Class!

(Mark Gable MS/HS)

Bring a laptop…

iPads and Video in the tech ed classroom!

(Mike Sundblad MS/HS)

Solar and Wind in your classroom – Activities that

motivate and educate! Affordable Alternative

Energy Activities

(Michael Arquin – Kidwind MS/HS)

11:00 – 11:50

Startup and Shutdown:

Tips on running your Stratasys 3-D printer

Q & A Session

Living in “The Cloud”

(Haldeman-Homme)

Business Panel:

What skills are your entry level employees missing?

(facilitated by Kurt Helgeson, Timm Smith, Ryan Dewey)

Share your ideas on MTEEA conference venue change and other topics with the

incoming President; an open discussion with the

President Elect…

(John Holmen and Peggy Finnegan)

12:00 - 12:50

FREE Lunch; Vendor display closed; Vendor networking at lunch – Herit-age Room

1:00 – 1:50

Tech Ed/Perkins/NCLB/Common Core State

Standards/Legislative Update

(Jay Nix, Mike Lindstrom)

Digital Photography

(Mike Hecker?)

Is your high school giving the Art or other Academic

Credit in Tech ed?

Share your model…

(Peggy Finnegan)

2:00 – 2:50

Lab Safety

MDE Safety Training?

(Safety Company/Vendor)

(Todd Lieser and Mike Weigel)

Drones in your lab!

(Luke Becker? – Braham)

Di-sublimation

(Peggy Finnegan and Paul Wiehe)

3:00 – 3:50

Need money or other resources for your pro-

gram??

Free Stuff Panel Discus-sion

(Joe Schulte)

SCSU Gets into CTE Licensure

(Kurt Helgeson)

Are you looking for a Ca-reer Academy model for your tech ed program?

(John Holmen, Tim Nestrud)

4:00 -5:00

MTEEA Annual Business Meeting – St Ben’s Room

Sept 26, Saturday Morning Interest Ses-

sions

Held at St. Cloud State University

Park for free in desig-nated lot – Lot “P” or

“N”

Conference Registration

form can be completed

and then printed here:

http://mteea.net/images/

sampledata/Conference/

pdf/2015RegistrationForm

.pdf

Send with payment or PO to:

MTEEA

Mike Sandell

Registration Chair

460 Brair Lane

Taylors Falls, MN 55084

Registration can be complet-

ed and submitted online!

Indicate form of payment:

School or Personal check

School PO (Bring Copy)

Credit Card

Online payment

When selecting online pay-

ment, fill out and submit reg-

istration, return to website

and

Saturday Schedule

Conference registration form

SCSU Headley Hall 8:00-9:00

Cool Ideas/Open Mic/Networking Breakfast – 8:30 John Holmen moderates discussion

(PLTW, CTE, and other updates)

Headley Hall

9:15-10:30AM

What are you doing with your 3D printer?

(Bob Steffen, Luke Miller)

ISELF 225

VEX Robotics

(Kurt Helgeson, and PLTW teachers)

Headley Hall 230

10:45-Noon

Screencasting your lessons

(Mike Lindstrom, Mark Gable)

Headley Hall 230

CNC Router or Plasma Cutter

(TBA)

Headley Hall 109

12:00 Adjourn

2015 ITEEA Conference

The 2015 ITEEA Conference was held in Milwaukee, Wi this past March. A number of Minne-

sota teachers and MTEEA leadership attend this excellent conference. The ITEEA Conference

is a Thursday to Saturday Conference.

Each day starts with a general session honoring different award winners. Following these

general sessions there are over 20 concurrent breakout sessions running each hour from

10:00 to 5:00. There are tour opportunities, and a chance for networking every evening.

Each year the group from Minnesota gets together for a “Minnesota Dinner”.

The 2016 Conference will be held March 2-4 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention

Center, National Harbor, Washington DC. The 2016 theme is “COLLABORATING TO BUILD A

DIVERSE STEM-LITERATE SOCIETY”

Why attend the ITEEA Conference

ITEEA – Building Your Network

As we begin a new school year and prepare to teach our students we often look at ways to

improve upon the curriculum and materials that we use in our classrooms. The International

Technology and Engineering Educators Association is a great source to find valuable infor-

mation. But another great membership benefit of ITEEA is the networking! Over the years I

have come to rely heavily on the experts in our field, fellow technology /engineering educa-

tors, for learning about the latest technologies, materials, curriculum, and teaching tech-

niques. Through our state organization, MTEEA, we build a state wide network that we can

access. With ITEEA we can build a worldwide network! Over the years I have made connec-

tions with fellow teachers from Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, Utah, and Texas to name a few.

What a great way to learn what is happening across our country in the field of technology /

engineering education!

As a new year begins I encourage you to build your network through ITEEA. We can make it

easy for you to join ITEEA with a unified membership of MTEEA and ITEEA with a special sav-

ings. For membership information and forms check out the website at:

http://www.iteea.org/Membership/membership.htm

2016 ITEEA Conference

Where?

National Harbor,

Washington DC

When?

March 2-4, 2016

More information?

www.iteaconnect.org/

Conference/

conferenceguide.htm

Registration?

www.iteaconnect.org/

Conference/

registration.htm

Save $60!!!

Register before

February 2, 2016!!!

Affiliate Representative Joel Ellinghuysen Update

Join ITEEA this fall and build

your network!

Also there are several scholarship

opportunities for those working on a

degree or continuing their education

such as the Litherland/FTEE Under-

graduate Scholarship in Technology

Education, the Maley/FTEE Technol-

ogy Teacher Scholarship, the FTEE

Undergraduate Scholarship, and

Pitsco/Hearlihy/FTEE Grant for Excel-

lence in Teaching Technology. Check

out all the grants and award oppor-

tunities at:

http://www.iteea.org/Awards/

awards.htm

The “Back Page”

“Top 10” things to do at the MTEEA Fall conference!! 1. Attend the vendor show 2, Join ITEEA as a unified member and save $40! 3. Network with friends 4. Attend the banquet 5. Go on one of the tours 6. Attend breakout sessions 7. Bring home a new idea for your classroom 8. Attend the MTEEA Business meeting 9. Find something to “Enhance” your program 10. Win A Door Prize! 11. Bring a Friend or Coworker!