2024 Summer Camps at Longwood Registration is now closed for the 4th/5th grade camp. We do still have openings for the 6th/7th grade camp for the week of June 17 – 21, 2024 . Please see the flyer link with registration information for the 6th/7th… Read More »Advancing Computer Science Education: SVRTC
Project Period: June 2021 Target Audience: Middle and High School Teachers Funding Source: Virginia Provost Initiative Grant: Teachers and Technologists for Tomorrow (T3) Project Description: ITTIP is pleased to offer a Cyber Security Education Workshop for middle and high school teachers in the Southside Virginia Regional Technology Consortium… Read More »Cyber Security
Project Period: July 12-16, 2021 Target Audience: Entering Grades 5-8, Students Funding Source: ITTIP Funded Project Description: This camp will take place on Longwood campus and is sure to be a fun week filled with learning how to use Circuit Stickers Code to create paper circuits, as well as Lilypad Arduino to… Read More »Coding Crafty Circuits
Project Period: June – July 2021 Target Audience: Entering Grades 4 – 7, Students Funding Source: ITTIP Funded Project Description: These STEM Camps were designed for a fun week on the Longwood campus filled with learning how to use different technologies related to robotics and coding. Some of… Read More »STEM Camps
Project Period: July 19-23, 2021 Target Audience: Entering Grades 7-12, Students Funding Source: Virginia Provost Initiative Grant: Teachers and Technologists for Tomorrow (T3) Project Description: The Air Force Association’s (AFA) CyberCamps are designed for high school and middle school students who are just getting into cybersecurity or who have cybersecurity… Read More »AFA CyberCamp
Project Period: January 1, 2019 – June 30, 2022 Target Audience: Grades K – 8 Teachers Funding Source: Virginia Department of Education CS4R8 represents a partnership lead by Cumberland County Public Schools in partnership with Longwood University’s Institute for Teaching through Technology and Innovative Practices (ITTIP), and includes… Read More »Computer Science for Region 8 (CS4R8)
Project Period: May 2019- September 2022 Target Audience: Science Teachers in Grades 6-8 Funding Source: Partnership with Concord Consortium and Stroud Water Research Center (Funded by the National Science Foundation: Grant DRL-1850051) This grant is a partnership with Concord Consortium and Stroud Water Research Center and three states (California,… Read More »Watershed Awareness using Technology and Environmental Research for Sustainability (WATERS)
Project Period: July 20 – 24, 2020 Target Audience: Children Entering Grades 3 – 4 Funding Support: Institute for Teaching through Technology and Innovative Practices (ITTIP) ITTIP hosted one-week summer camps for children entering grades 3-4, free of charge to families. Children participated in a week… Read More »Camp Invention Summer 2020
Project Period: January 1, 2019 – May 31, 2019 Target Audience: Grades 4 – 8 Teachers Funding Source: Institute for Teaching through Technology and Innovative Practices (ITTIP) This professional development experience included teachers participating in a blended learning book study of two books over the course of 8-weeks.… Read More »GEM: Global Education Mindset
Project Period: January 1, 2020 – December 31, 2022 Target Audience: Science and Mathematics Teachers, Grade 4 Funding Source: National Science Foundation (Grant #1933717) Funding Amount: $647,206 Project Description: This project will provide professional development for fourth grade teachers in rural elementary schools who teach both mathematics… Read More »Research on the Integration of Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Computational Thinking in Rural Elementary Teacher Professional Development and Effects on Practice (EMPOWER)